No more in Mountain View. I picked up one and some guy picked up the other. Didn't look liked a FWer (unless his wife goes along too).

lochness said:anybody can help me with taking the HD out of the case
so that I dont destroy such a nice case?
instruction/pictures would be nice.

TIA

Look back a couple of posts from yours. A bunch of people posted instructions.

Picked up one at E palo alto,
still have two left
Used 12% off.
I just oponded it, it is really 7200RPM.
The warranty is only up to 2008-12-20
accoring to the Hitachi web site.

It is very easy to open it,
remove the Sticker with Pn and SN number,
you will see how to open it. there are two screws
under the sticker.

After you open the case, it is easy to
get the Hard driver out.
You still need to remove two more Screws
on the back of the Hard drive.

melissa77 said:For anyone who already opened the case and got the drive out, what is the status warranty if you check at Hitachi site using the serial number on the drive?

Thanks

The serial number on the drive is the same as the serial number on the enclosure. According to Hitachi's website, the warranty is valid for 1 year.

Whether they will honor the warranty once the drive is removed from the enclosure is a different story (if they can tell the 7k200 originally was sold as an external HDD).

So maybe this drive wouldn't be the best then for notebooks that already have known issues with being on the warm side?

Thanks OP, saved me $80-90 off what a normal 7k200 200GB would cost! I picked up one for the Vostro & one for the MacBook

Thanks OP. Scored 1 in Pleasanton, CA. Lot many left.

I scored two at the Best Buy in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The only ones left on the shelf were not DTG serial numbers. I have already verified that they are indeed the 7200RPM SATA I drives. Yahoo!!! Thanks OP!

The only downside is the SATA150 because I would have preferred SATA300. But they will still out perform a 5400RPM drive.

JamesDuncan said:So maybe this drive wouldn't be the best then for notebooks that already have known issues with being on the warm side?

That's not necessarily a given. The best way to determine that is to take a look at the power consumption specifications for the drive. Section 6.2 of the drive's specifications shows the power consumption figures. The less power it consumes the less heat it will generate.

Watts (RMS Typical)

Performance Idle average 2.0
Active Idle average 1.0
Low Power Idle average 0.8
Read average 2.3
Write average 2.3
Seek average 2.6
Standby 0.25
Sleep 0.2
Startup (maximum peak) 5.5
Average from power on to ready 3.8

Find the specs for your current drive and compare.

brentpresley said:Jimnoid said:I scored two at the Best Buy in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The only ones left on the shelf were not DTG serial numbers. I have already verified that they are indeed the 7200RPM SATA I drives. Yahoo!!! Thanks OP!

The only downside is the SATA150 because I would have preferred SATA300. But they will still out perform a 5400RPM drive.

There is ZERO performance difference b/w SATA150 and SATA300. It is all marketing.

Simply put, no drive can pull data off the platers fast enough to saturate the SATA150 interface, so they won't come close to saturating SATA300.

There will be if you have a lot of drives. But with just 1 drive, then you are right. ZERO difference in performance.

BTW, picked 1 up at Pasadena, CA with DTG serial # at the bottom of the packaging. Plugged in, has model HTS722020K9SA00. There are 21 left after I got mine according to the BB employee who went to look one up for me since there was none left on the shelf. Checked out with the 10% off printed coupon, no problem at all.