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Fantastic. Especially considering most of the deals now are for SATA drives yet most of the enclosures take PATA drives. This one will make a great replacement for my mediacenter USB drive.
Shezam said:SickTeddyBear said:A good price, but I wish Hitachi was updating the specs in the same way Seagate has. Only an 8MB buffer? Is this perpendicular?
Agreed,,,Now a 16MB buffer would've been sweet!
If your using this in a Tivo or Replay DVR buffer is a non-issue. I just ordered one to upgrade my Toshiba SD-H400 Tivo.
BTW, this same drive is $179.95 AR at Fry's B&M in Indy. I drove home to save $50.00 and order on-line.
buddhawood said:If your using this in a Tivo or Replay DVR buffer is a non-issue. I just ordered one to upgrade my Toshiba SD-H400 Tivo.
BTW, this same drive is $179.95 AR at Fry's B&M in Indy. I drove home to save $50.00 and order on-line. Actually, people on AVS are reporting ReplayTV issues with Seagate 16MB Cache drives, so I'd avoid them...
I think this is the 7K500 model with 5x 100GB platters. People with Tivo/settop boxes probably should avoid this, because it's not very quiet and runs hot.
Hitachi does have the T7K500 with 3x 166GB, but I haven't seen that on sale yet. But it's good value per GB for people that need storage.
k0k0puffz said:Strange... it still says $159.99 online, but when you add to cart, it changes to $219.99 Outpost starts its new sales on Fridays, so the deal is over now...
Shezam said:k0k0puffz said:Strange... it still says $159.99 online, but when you add to cart, it changes to $219.99 Outpost starts its new sales on Fridays, so the deal is over now...
Bummer... it'd be nice if prices were kept current. THX!
Ordered this drive for $169.99 on Wednesday Spent 45 minutes on hold to get $10 credit price adjustment on Thursday. Drive came today (Friday - expected shipping date was Monday).
The label on the box says 16mb cache!!
The drive is labeled HDS725050KLAT80 and is listed as 8mb cash on Hitachigst web site.
I gues there's no easy way to check the cache size.
wfay said:buddhawood said:If your using this in a Tivo or Replay DVR buffer is a non-issue. I just ordered one to upgrade my Toshiba SD-H400 Tivo.
BTW, this same drive is $179.95 AR at Fry's B&M in Indy. I drove home to save $50.00 and order on-line. Actually, people on AVS are reporting ReplayTV issues with Seagate 16MB Cache drives, so I'd avoid them...
Yes I'm one of them - I jumped on the $99 400GB Seagate memorial day sale. Ended up with one of the 16 MB cache -620A drives. Nice drive but couldn't get it to work well in my ReplayTV 5040.
Oh well, maybe something will come up on Black Friday...
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