Original topic was posted a few weeks for $125.99 here Link but a week ago best buy changed price to $170, but today they changed the price again down to $142.99+tax and if you use a 10% off coupon(you can get at your post office for free in the change of address envelopes) the price is $128.691 so get them by next sun because they change prices every sun and theres no telling whether the drive will change in price or not. On the drive packaging it will say that the drive in PATA and 5400 RPM and some of them are and some of them arent, You need to get a drive with the serial # starting with DTG, because these are the 7200's if the serial # does not start DTG than it is 5400 so make sure you check before buying.
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It's definitely back at the $142.99 price at Best Buy. There were plenty of DTG serial #'s at my local stores. There were also a lot of 10% coupon (exp 1/31/2008) in the address change pack found at US Postal Office.
I just pluged it in the USB port and confirmed that it's the Hitachi HTS722020K9SA00. I'll swap this out on my ThinkPad X61. Good find guys!
Yes, it voids the warranty. So try the drive before taking it apart. Notebook drives are generally pretty sturdy. Pretty resistant to impact (when off).
Dimez2Dollarz said:Will definitely be checking this out tomorrow.
Was hoping that it would come back with a valid 10% coupon that I could use with it!
edit: does anyone know for sure if this will work in an Apple G4 Powerbook? Thanks
Looks like this 7200 rpm drive is a SATA drive which will not fit in the Powerbook. However, if the 5400 one is a PATA drive (OP mentioned this in his post but I am not sure) then it should fit your powerbook.
At around noon, Denver West BB had two DTG drives left after I bought one. You'll probably have to look through the 160Gb drives to find them, though. The 10% off coupon from the post office worked fine.
I found 18 drives in Rockaway, NJ...4 were dtg...I purchased 3 and the last one was snatched up by someone else looking at maxtor drive after I 'splained them' about the faster spindle of the dtg drives.
-Hot! I will be upgrading 2 Dell laptops I have on order for my office and use the last for file xfer/backup.
This was a good deal when it came out, and is still a good deal now. Combine with a 10% off coupon to make it even better. Not much over $100 for a 200GB 7200rpm drive.... you really can't complain. I put one of these in my Macbook Pro and it positively flies.
WilliamG said:This was a good deal when it came out, and is still a good deal now. Combine with a 10% off coupon to make it even better. Not much over $100 for a 200GB 7200rpm drive.... you really can't complain. I put one of these in my Macbook Pro and it positively flies.
Don't you mean "positively frys"? I replaced my 5400RPM HD with this one and boy did it make one side of my palm rest very hot. This is on the latest Macbook Pro 15". But I highly recommend it. The speed boost is very noticable.
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I replaced my 5400RPM HD with this one and boy did it make one side of my palm rest very hot. This is on the latest Macbook Pro 15". But I highly recommend it. The speed boost is very noticable.
