250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

[Newc]

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Clear...eID=183&type=r

[Kisonen]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

Maybe you should check
THIS
before you buy. 8mb cache 5 year warranty.

[Shawn Lutz]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

i have that 300 GB Seagate that I use just for audio files w/ Sonar

[dg]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

That Seagate is sweet & would be a great deal, but that guy's shipping prices are completely insane. $34 to ship that drive? [img]/images/graemlins/fart.gif[/img] Shipping is more than the BIN for a lot of his items.

[buzzsaww]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

Tiger Direct has 250 gig drives for $69 after rebate, 300 gig drives for $99 after rebate.

[Inearthed]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

SATA is the way to go.

[Sandman0170]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

Can get OEM 250GB SATAs for under a $100 at newegg..Gotta be crazy to pay that much for non SATA drive...

[Newc]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

Sweet deals there, but I try not to mix brands anymore - I had a Quantum Bigfoot years ago that simply would not play well with my WDs. Put it in a machine by itself and it ran just fine.

And my mobo only has 2 SATA connectors, and 4 IDE conectors (with the 2-port card). IDE works fine for me for video and audio transfer/recording and such. I'll worry about speed when it becomes a definable issue for me [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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[xenophobe]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

5400rmp IDE is perfectly fine for single stream audio and video storage/playback, most of them can play 3 or 4 full frame video files simultaneously without a problem... Anything with a faster spin will have a higher probability of breaking/wearing faster.

SATA is only really necessary for a primary system drive, or secondary drive if it has an active swap file. And most external enclosures do not support SATA, and you would need a SATA i/o port on the back of your computer, if you wanted to use one externally.

[Newc]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

I ordered 2 of the WDs - that'll put me over a Terabyte [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[OnlineStageGear]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

In all my years of installing hard drives in systems for customers and having to warranty them, there is only one name we trust and that is Western Digital. Sorry if I offend anyone's favorite brand, but over the last 9 years Western Digital has had the best results.

My last batch of 10 Seagate 60 gig drives only had 3 outlive the warranty. Sure they send you a replacement drive, but it has a lovely "RECONDITIONED" sticker on it and if memory serves, 1/2 of those died too.

Matt

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

Western digital fan here as well.

Had lotsa bad Seagates in my time and only recently have used a couple new ones agian. First in quite a few years. They seem to be hanging... But, it's only been two months for them, haha...

Just used two Hitachi SATA drives in a system and one lasted a month and crapped out.

[buzzsaww]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

[ QUOTE ]
In all my years of installing hard drives in systems for customers and having to warranty them, there is only one name we trust and that is Western Digital. Sorry if I offend anyone's favorite brand, but over the last 9 years Western Digital has had the best results.

My last batch of 10 Seagate 60 gig drives only had 3 outlive the warranty. Sure they send you a replacement drive, but it has a lovely "RECONDITIONED" sticker on it and if memory serves, 1/2 of those died too.

Matt

[/ QUOTE ]

LMAO I love reading stuff like this.

[rjohnstone]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

I use WD and Maxtor.
WD drives for system and active files and Maxtor drives for storage.
I have two Maxtor drives that have been running in my system daily for the last 6 years. No issues ever.
My WD drives are fairly new, so I haven't had a chance to beat them up yet.

[Newc]

Re: 250 Gig drives for $95!!!!

I've used WD drives since I built my first computer in '97 - haven't really had any non-OS-induced issues [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Had a used one from WlaMart that was crap (didn't realise it was a return til we got it home - found the original shrink-wrap in the bottom of the box) but WD sent us a replacement that was bigger [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

And I'm pretty sure my current HD issue is an XP thing - appears the $Volume file was corrupted.

Then again, I DO have a Maxtor 60GB drive in here as well (from an AKAI DPS12) - could be causing trouble [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]