Hitachi 1TB internal 7200 @ Microcenter BM $69

I suspect they are different models... the 32GB .C version is two 500GB platters and a very nice drive.
From what Microcenter listed this is 16GB cache and likely the .B version (link for info *on the 15GB* here)

I called the Microcenter cust support and they did no have the detail - you should call your local store to verify

Followed up and below (a pain to get the info from the store) the clerk grabbed a box and said it was 32GB not 16GB so the above Newegg link is probably the correct model

it is the 32MB cache

(the Microcenter web ad info is wrong) I just spoke with the store in Dallas - the clerk grabbed a box and read the info... it's a 32MB so the above link to Newegg is probably the same model

that said, cache is not always a significant performance booster, but I've had good luck with Hitachi drives... I have the 7200.C version of this drive and it's transfer rates are great 110 mb/sec average 140 peak (access time is only 14.8ms) so it makes a good video storage /streaming drive

TYTBUDGET said: cigga24 said: Only downside is 16MB as opposed to 32MB.
Just one more reason to hold out for deals on the 2TB. I wouldn't pay more than $40 for a 1TB right now.
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uh-huh... then maybe you could show us where we could buy a terabyte for $40?

tax kills the deal

osv1 said: uh-huh... then maybe you could show us where we could buy a terabyte for $40?
When did I say that? I never said that. What I did say was that I wouldn't pay more than $40 for one of these drives because the market for drives this size is predominantly people who are backing up their movies — and for those people, a 1TB drive is laughably insufficient (I won't even mention the Blu-Ray folk, whose 40GB-per-movie backups overwhelm a drive this size within hours).

If you're content to clutter your chassis with 1TB drives — soon to be the floppy disk of the TB universe (with an equivalent resale value) — that's you. There is a reason the 2TB drives are being sold for around $100 if you can be even moderately patient tsk: These drives are positioned for a world in which even 2TB capacities are quickly overwhelmed by the media being stored on them.

In a desperate economy such as ours this price is not good; it suffers from the added indignity of being sales taxed; it doesn't benefit from any rebate offer; it isn't eligible for BCB; it isn't a hot deal; and it isn't even a deal.

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