Halitosis said: Did a quicksearch and didnt see this up. Dont kill me because this is my first hopefuully good hot deals post. I thought this was good.
Outpost Deal: 250GB SATAII Western Digital WD2500KSRTL 16 MB cache 7200 rpm
It's only one year, which is why it's kinda not hot. I'd rather have the 300GB Seagate SATA 150 w/5 years warranty than this one ($99.99). Better $/GB ratio, better warranty, slower theoretical speed.
cookiedough
Member
posted: Apr. 28, 2006 @ 5:30p
I just got this a week ago at Newegg for the same price. A great drive though, regardless of where you buy it.
hwjbl
Senior Member
posted: Apr. 28, 2006 @ 5:35p
KingMongo said: It's only one year, which is why it's kinda not hot. I'd rather have the 300GB Seagate SATA 150 w/5 years warranty than this one ($99.99). Better $/GB ratio, better warranty, slower theoretical speed.
Thanks. Where did you see the one year warranty? I found somewhere else it had 5 year warranty.
newegg has oem drive selling at 90 with free shipping as well and 3 years warranty (for those who are interested) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144701
Basically, IN RETAIL, only their Enterprise drives (Raptor, and Caviar RE/RE2) have 5-year warranty.
Everything else has 1-year, with an option to pay $14.95 to extend (boooo).
Oddly enough, their OEM drives all have 3-5 year warranty (yes equal to or greater than retail). Which is stupid.
Anyway, I feel like Seagate puts their money where their mouth is re: warranty, and Maxtor and Western Digital are punks, so the heck with them. I believe Hitachi and Samsung have three year warranties, but their drives haven't been on sale in recent memory...
hwjbl
Senior Member
posted: Apr. 28, 2006 @ 6:26p
Thanks again. I wonder why pricegrabber has it for 5 year warranty. Pricegrabber has $5 review bonus for the retail drive if any one is interested, just search for the part number.
hwjbl said: I wonder why pricegrabber has it for 5 year warranty.
I'll take a wild guess: Because PriceGrabber is not an authority on technical specifications, warranties, or anything other than prices, and sometimes, they don't even get that right?
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