WD 74GB 10K RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive for $59.99 Shipped After Rebate

[Spoofee]

WD 74GB 10K RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive for $59.99 Shipped After Rebate

Newegg.com has the Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for a good price.

Item has a rating of 5/5 from 611 reviews

Pricegrabber Price : $140.00 ~ $298.00 Shipped

1. Newegg Price : $79.99
2. Rebate Price : -$20.00 ( Exp : 05/31/09 )
Final Price : $59.99 Shipped After Rebate

 

[Roger Wilco]

for 74 gb that's a sucky deal
but for 740 gb (which is what it's really for) it's okay.

 

[bubbalou32]

for 74 gb that's a sucky deal
but for 740 gb (which is what it's really for) it's okay.

Don't be disappointed, this is 74Gb:
http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-001165.pdf

Raptor drives are pricey but 10K RPM makes for faster boots.

 

[n2vip]

Understand what these drives are for

These drives were designed as server-grade hardware, not commodity PC hardware - the price reflects that. These drives were built to compete with high-end SCSI arrays, and they do so quite well.

These are 10,000 RPM drives - they likely make more noise than your WD "Green" drives which spin at 5,400 RPM or your Seagate 7200.11 drives that spin at 7,200 RPM.

The speed increase will decrease your boot time if used as a system/OS drive, program load times will be shortened if you use this as a program storage drive.

In order to see real benefit, you'll want to hang these off a good SATA controller, preferably one not on a PCI slot but a PCI-Express or PCI-X slot.

I'll be ordering two, as the item ships with a $20 rebate (good for two drives), and shipping is free. These are OEM drives, which means they don't come with any hardware or accessories (that means no screws or SATA/power cables). I have a small homemade server that needs two quick OS drives to be mounted as RAID 1 (mirrored), though RAID 0 (spanned) will give you even greater speed.

The price is fine, IMHO - $59 (AR) for 74 Gigs for a 10,000 RPM SATA drive with a five year warranty that was designed for server applications. If you want a lot of storage at the lowest price-point, look elsewhere.

 

[Proboscis]

well said

These drives were designed as server-grade hardware, not commodity PC hardware - the price reflects that. These drives were built to compete with high-end SCSI arrays, and they do so quite well.

These are 10,000 RPM drives - they likely make more noise than your WD "Green" drives which spin at 5,400 RPM or your Seagate 7200.11 drives that spin at 7,200 RPM.

The speed increase will decrease your boot time if used as a system/OS drive, program load times will be shortened if you use this as a program storage drive.

In order to see real benefit, you'll want to hang these off a good SATA controller, preferably one not on a PCI slot but a PCI-Express or PCI-X slot.

I'll be ordering two, as the item ships with a $20 rebate (good for two drives), and shipping is free. These are OEM drives, which means they don't come with any hardware or accessories (that means no screws or SATA/power cables). I have a small homemade server that needs two quick OS drives to be mounted as RAID 1 (mirrored), though RAID 0 (spanned) will give you even greater speed.

The price is fine, IMHO - $59 (AR) for 74 Gigs for a 10,000 RPM SATA drive with a five year warranty that was designed for server applications. If you want a lot of storage at the lowest price-point, look elsewhere.

Well said N2VIP. Well said.

 

[jihiggs]

I have had 2 of the 36 gig raptors running raid stripped in my main computer for going on 4 years. very fast, not that loud. but they do run a little warm. thats got me wondering if they are going to fail any day now, hmmm lol