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wcoxe1 wrote on 9/22/2004, 7:55 PM
Within the last monty, at, I believe Best Buy, but it may have been CompUSA (that great Mexican Company) 250GB HDs were $160. This sort of pricing is cyclical. It should be back very soon.
aspenv wrote on 9/22/2004, 7:59 PM
At Fry's Outpost you can find WD 250gb for $149 after a $30 rebate (limited 2 per household). Earlier this month they were sold for $110.

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3620115

Also at Fry's Outpost Maxtor 250gb for $110 (limited 1 per customer)

http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3700356

Jessariah67 wrote on 9/22/2004, 8:39 PM
Spot,

You guys selling the 100G drives? Might be able to make up some of the difference there...100G is a great size for 1-4 project work/backups...
Spot|DSE wrote on 9/22/2004, 8:41 PM
We're donating the drives, otherwise we'd Ebay them.
busterkeaton wrote on 9/22/2004, 9:22 PM
These are among the many nice deals newegg.com has on drives.


$152.99 Hitachi 250GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model HDS722525VLAT80 Part# 14R9249, OEM Drive Only

$156.99 Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD2500JD, OEM Drive Only
Model# WD2500JD


$172.95 Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model 7Y250M0, OEM Drive Only
Arks wrote on 9/23/2004, 6:23 AM
SPOT, go with newegg; you cant beat the fast shipping and deals on the HD's. The 250 GB Western Digitals are great, and the OEM price from newegg, along witht he customer service, cant be beat in my opinion. I have built many systems from parts purchased from newegg.com. The other great thing about this online dealer is the customer reviews on all the products they carry. Its such a great read to see what experience others have had before you buy.
Arks wrote on 9/23/2004, 6:27 AM
Question for you:

What speed drives are these from the server? are they SCSI or IDE?
RichMacDonald wrote on 9/23/2004, 6:43 AM
Best deal at www.pricewatch.com right now is $138. Actually that link is out of stock; best name brand appears to be here. Personally, I troll the Sunday newspaper specials. It seems like every other week has a great deal that beats anything online
Paradox wrote on 9/23/2004, 6:48 AM
sam's club -- straight out, no rebate 148 bucks

http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?n=0&oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-33761%3a-33794%3a-39008%3a832582&coe=0&BV_SessionID=_SC_0637581049.1095947207_CS_&BV_EngineID=cccfadcmigfdlmmcfkfcfkjdgoodfkg.0
farss wrote on 9/23/2004, 6:51 AM
I cannot believe this, these things are cheaper in Australia, now that's a first for sure!

Bob.
John_Cline wrote on 9/23/2004, 7:26 AM
I just picked up another 200gig Hitachi drive yesterday at CompUSA for $80. It was $179 with an "instant" $20 rebate and an $80 mail-in rebate.

I used to prefer Western Digital drives but started using the Hitachi drives about six months ago. I now have eight of the Deskstar 7K series drives, I have two 200's, four 250's and two 400's and I like them a lot. For those of you that don't know, Hitachi bought IBM's hard drive division a couple of years ago and their drives are quite "state of the art."

John
baysidebas wrote on 9/23/2004, 7:46 AM
Don't forget that IBM's Deskstars acquired, with good reason, the nickname "Deathstar". IBM even posted a warning that they were not designed to be run more than 8 hours a day. Hope Hitachi successfully addressed the problems.
John_Cline wrote on 9/23/2004, 8:07 AM
Yes, I was aware of the issue with the old 75GXP drives and, yes, Hitachi has dealt with it. I run my drives 24 hours a day and "pound the blazes" out of them. Storagereview.com likes the new Hitachi drives quite a bit and the 400 gig version is currently on the top of their "leaderboard."

StorageReview article on the Hitachi 7K250

John
Paradox wrote on 9/23/2004, 8:23 AM
Freight. You're closer to China.
skibumm101 wrote on 9/23/2004, 8:25 AM
Check out the hotdeal forum at
forums.anandtech.com
thay have hot deals that come out often for hard drives
Arks wrote on 9/23/2004, 8:45 AM
Don't those Hitachi's only have a 1 year warranty and the WDs have a 3 year warranty? or has that changed?
skibumm101 wrote on 9/23/2004, 9:43 AM
almost all HD manufactures went to a one year warrenty a while back. Seagate now offers a 5 year warrenty. You can still find WD drives with 3 years warrenty, they are manufactured for certain distributors in certain applications.
John_Cline wrote on 9/23/2004, 9:49 AM
WD's have a 1 year warranty, Hitachi's have a 3 year warranty. WD will sell you an "extended" 3 year warranty by going to their web site and paying an extra $14.95 per drive.

John
wcoxe1 wrote on 9/23/2004, 11:40 AM
M:y last WD drive came with the now industry standard 1 year only warranty. However, there was a card in the box that offerred an extention of that warranty to a total of 3 years for $14.95 mailed directly to WD.

Several companies are going on the cheap and then selling their own extended warranties. They vary by company and by product within the company.
jkyoung wrote on 9/23/2004, 12:35 PM
Dell Home is doing 20% off drives with free shipping until 9/29:
Maxtor 250 - $160
Maxtor 200 - $98

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/default.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&~ck=mn

Right now you're still going to be paying a premium the extra capacity of a 250GB drive over a 200GB drive. 1TB will cost $640 (4 250's) vs. $500 (5 200's).
busterkeaton wrote on 9/23/2004, 1:29 PM
It seems that big drive prices have really come down. Perhaps everyone who needed a big jumped on early.

John, I think the Hitachis I link to are 1-year warranties. Looks like a new policy from hitachi

John_Cline wrote on 9/23/2004, 1:50 PM
Buster,

If that's the case, then I guess I lucked out. I bought a Hitachi Deststar 7K250 series 200 gig drive from CompUSA yesterday and it says "3 year warranty" right on the box.

John
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/23/2004, 5:24 PM
GO TO WWW.PRICEWATCH.COM !!!!!!!!
Seek and you will find it my son. It's the best price you'll probably find. I found 200 GB USB External for just about $120.00 or so. I can't imagine that you will have any trouble finding internal 250's for much more than that. Just looked now and found them for $138.00 7200 rpm 250GB with 8MB Buffer ATA100 drive, and you may be able to get a better deal if you talk to them, depending on quantity.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 9/23/2004, 5:25 PM
GO TO WWW.PRICEWATCH.COM !!!!!!!!
Seek and you will find it my son. It's the best price you'll probably find. I found 200 GB USB External for just about $120.00 or so. I can't imagine that you will have any trouble finding internal 250's for much more than that. Just looked now and found them for $138.00 7200 rpm 250GB with 8MB Buffer ATA100 drive, and you may be able to get a better deal if you talk to them, depending on quantity.