Dead - Seagate 200GB ST3200822A-RK UATA100 Hard Drive for $70 + Ship After Rebate

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Dead - Seagate 200GB ST3200822A-RK UATA100 Hard Drive for $70 + Ship After Rebate

Outpost has a good price on the Seagate 200GB ST3200822A retail pack. This hard drive comes with UATA100, 8mb buffer, and a 5 year warranty. $50 rebate link.

Pricegrabber Price : $120-160 Shipped
Spoofee Price : $70 + Ship (Around $5)

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4008252
 
Interesting, normally the rebate on this drive is for $60. When I bought mine, the rebate was $60. So, normally the price is $10 cheaper.
 
I got mine for $129.56 with 2-day shipping. I've been waiting for a deal on a 200gb hard drive. I can't wait to upgrade my system drive (currently running a 60gb & 40gb). I get to install Windows XP clean again :)

The 60gb is going in my removable drive and the current drive (120gb) is going in my Replay TV. Thank you for the link.

Michael
 
I have seen the light and its name is Tivo....

Actually a Tivo wont see anything above 120Gb but I got two in mine and with 240 hours worth of poker and sportscar shows I have enough crap to bore myself for days!
 
sambryan said:
I have seen the light and its name is Tivo....

Actually a Tivo wont see anything above 120Gb but I got two in mine and with 240 hours worth of poker and sportscar shows I have enough crap to bore myself for days!
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I put a 160GB in my TiVo and I'm pretty sure it saw every bit of it. The instructions I had mentioned the 120GB limit and how to overcome it. Of course, that one died from a bad, non-replacable, impossible to repair power supply :( so now I have two 80-GB stock TiVos networked.
 
Yeah, the Tivo can see and use above the 138GB limit if you use a kernel that has LBA48 support. Check around, there are tutorials and such as with all other Tivo upgrade operations.

Now where is the 250GB drive for $100 that I have been waiting for? I can get them for $125 apiece off of pricewatch.com, why can't spoofee deliver me 4 of them for $100 each?!
 
any of you guys comp nerds out there? Would running two of these in a RAID data mirroring sequence be fast enough for me or should i spend the extra $200 and get dual raptors for about 1/3 of the space =/
 
JL: Two of these drives in a Raid 1 (Mirror) would yeild a fault tollerant storage array with a total usable space of 200GB (one drives total space). Remember, to run a true array, you must have alike drives. Regarding speed, with Mirroring, you're not after speed, but data integrity. Reads could be slightly faster then a single drive, Write speed will run around half as fast as one drive. A Read request can come off either drive, a Write request must be written to both drives.

If you want performance, you want a Striped array.. Raid 0 (Stripe).. It takes both drives and interleaves the clusters between drives and yeilds the total space of all drives. Performance Up, Data Integrity Down.. If any one drive fails, you screwed. Again, you must run alike drives (well, not really, but they must be of same size). Also, you must run them in pairs.. 2 or 4 drives, not 3 or 5.. Because it interleaves the clusters, your reading small chunks from each drive at the same time, so Reads and Writes are faster then just one drive.

Raid 0 and 1 are the most common, there are others but not for most ppl..

Personally, I hate SATA and all it's highhorse mantra.. The only thing worth anything on the WD Raptor is it's 10k spindle speed, which just cuts down on the drives latency.

My suggestion to you is to get two of these Seagate drives for a cheap price, and Raid them together. 0 if you want speed, 1 if you want fault tollerance
 
Thanks, coz. Im not interested in integrity so much. I was planning on getting Raptors and then saw this deal. A friend of mine told me that since read speed is > with mirroring, that it would be "faster." However i never liked the idea of basically wasting one drives space to mirror the other. Raid 0 is always what i liked :)

Raptors are just so appealing.. the stories of windows loading in 4 seconds are mouthwatering. But at this price, I could set up two drives in RAID 0 for less than the price of ONE raptor.

The money i would save here (i was going to RAID 2x74GB raptors) could go towards that OCZ plat rev 2 i want, or maybe a PCI-E GPU with a nf3 for my AMD Athalon. =D
 
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Sorry to burst yer bubble, but Winblows could never load in 4seconds.. Not on basic commerical stuff.. Now if you had some enterprise quality hardware, it's a diff story.. You have to remember, that Winblows loads a crapload of useless ****, drivers, system crap, all your startup crap, etc.. The best I think you could do is around 20sec.. Those guys just need to rant and rave because they're stupid enough to spend that kinda money on a crap drive... If your gonna spend that kinda bank, go with the good stuff like fast SCSI drives.. Sure, the SATA cables look cool in a moded out case, but they're useless...

anyhow, i'm done..
 
lol, maybe it's exaggerated. But the point is... would these drives be adequate enough to run in RAID 0 -- that is, would they be fast, and would they not melt and break in 2 weeks?

Would i also have to buy a RAID controller? *EDIT* I'm obviously new to this stuff but i found out mobos come with raid controllers.. one question answered

*EDIT*My friend explained that the guy he knows has two raptors in RAID 0.. and windows boots in one bar. =]
 
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Raid hardware, albeit cheezy and cheap, does come on alot of newer mobos.. They should support 0 and 1 and be okay for the majority. Personally, years ago when I built this system (it's had upgrades, don't flip out) I picked up a 3Ware card and at the time, the fastest 30GB drives I could lay my hands on.. Quantum drives.. 4 of them.. They've been running almost 24/7 for at least a good 2 years now.. Never a problem.. As long as you don't get crappy IBM drives with a MFTB of like 8hrs a week, or some insanely low amount, you should be fine..

Now, regarding the friends friend, yes, if you raid those 10k's together, you'll get some nice performace.. But again, I'd still much rather Raid SCSI hardware... WD just isn't that great a company anymore, hasn't been for years now, so.... Not in my house...

Also consider the cost.. He paid a premium for each drive, then had to either find a SATA raid card, or use WInblows raid.. For what, a WD array of two? No thanks.. I'll stick to what I have.. My Enterprise Class Arrays.. ;-P I should point out tho they're used for storage and media use only, I don't boot or run off them..
 
Thanks for the help, i just nabbed two at different addresses :)
 
I run 2 Raptors in RAID-0 and they are most definitely lightning fast. I use the RAID controller that came on my motherboard which uses the Intel ICH-5 chipset. I use the RAID as my primary Windows drive where I launch applications from and all that, but do data storage on a fileserver machine over a gigabit network. From testing with SiSoft Sandra, the throughput on the RAIDed Raptor drives is better than the fastest SCSI enterprise RAID arrays Sandra indexes. In real world terms, when playing a game like CounterStrike: Source, I load the game faster than everyone else except a friend of mine who has the same setup.

And the advantages of SATA are not that it has sexy cables, the advantages are really in the protocol and command queueing.

If you want Windows to boot in <5 seconds, I think you'll have to look into solid state disk drives. And they're a level of expensive you can hardly imagine.
 
I just received the drive today. Got the rebate together and will ship it out tomorrow. Finished partitioning the drive using Partition Magic 8.0 (approx. 40gb/65gb/85gb). I'm copying over my data across three drives onto the 200gb and will end will a fresh copy of Windows XP. I am impressed - the drive is very quiet. Setup was pretty easy - just you're standard hard drive install. Anyhow, back to copying/sorting data. :o

-Michael
 
I wonder if Seagate is going to run any good promotions on drives in the future.

Speaking of Seagate, I bought two hard drives from Outpost back in late August, they received the rebates in their system in late September, and I am still yet to see my check. Their customer service is pretty poor and all it says is that they're valid and "scheduled for final processing". I'm getting pretty angry, it's $110 worth of rebates. I might have to get on the phone and get nasty with them soon. :(
 
yea do that. and get mine sent too !
 
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