500 Gig SATA Drive for $109.99 + FREE Shipping

[JohnWPB]

EDIT: Expired now $169.99

Ok, with a few posts in the other HD special I posted a few days ago, regarding the small size of the drive, this is just about as good as it gets! This offer is from Fry's Electronics, which I think everyone should be familiar with :unsure:

• Size: 500 Gigabytes
• Manufacturer: Maxtor
• Speed: 7200RPM
• Buffer: 16MB
• Interface: Serial ATA/300
• Price: $109.99
• Shipping & Handling: FREE

Check it out here

Keep in mind that at $0.225/gig, this is a good deal, but it's not unheard of. The difference here is that you're seeing sub-$50 prices as they size is smaller. I just picked up 3 500GB SATA 16MG drives for $120/each, so that's $0.24/gb. The 200GB/$45 would make a much more compelling boot disk though, esp as it's getting harder to find motherboards that play nice with IDE. Considering hard drives were $0.25/gb about 9 months ago, i'm surprised they haven't dropped faster. I guess those Seagate/etc layoffs could mean that the 25-50% per year price drops are going to slow down.

Bring on the <$200 750GB SATAs, so we can build easily build multi-TB RAIDs with no heat/noise issues!

Well, how about a Terabyte this time for ~ $200

 

[WayneW]

As the token whiner... only a 1 year warranty.

 

[Rupp]

As the token whiner... only a 1 year warranty.

Is a one year warranty not the norm these days?

 

[WayneW]

It may be for Maxtor. My recent Seagates were 5 years and I think Western Digital is 5 years (at least on some models).

 

[Rupp]

It may be for Maxtor. My recent Seagates were 5 years and I think Western Digital is 5 years (at least on some models).

Ah. Maybe this is why the Maxtors are so cheap?

 

[IVB]

How odd; I recently bought nearly the exact same drive from outpost, but it had a 3year warranty.

 

[WayneW]

I guess "nearly" is a key word here... maybe Maxtor has multiple package options?

 

[IVB]

Yeah maybe; although when I click on the link in the other thread in this forum, it takes me to this drive.

It's just another example of the man trying to hold you down!

 

[HoustonFirefox]

I wouldn't trust a Maxtor with my Recycle Bin contents. I've seen too many of them have main bearing failures. Be warned; when the drive starts whining, you have less than 30 days before it goes Kaplut! Your results may vary but I have never owned one that lasted and I've been using various hard drives since 1986.

Just my .02

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

Seagate acquired Maxtor about a year and a half ago...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051221-5816.html

 

[electron]

based on my experience, all drives are crap. They are all disposable media to me :/

 

[Rupp]

based on my experience, all drives are crap. They are all disposable media to me :/

Dang, I've never had a drive to fail. Well other than the one that lightning took out a few weeks back. I still have a 2 gig 10 year old drive in operation in my weather server.

 

[Micah]

based on my experience, all drives are crap. They are all disposable media to me :/

Dang, I've never had a drive to fail. Well other than the one that lightning took out a few weeks back. I still have a 2 gig 10 year old drive in operation in my weather server.

Send it to Electron. He'll have it dead within a month if not a week.

Damn I wish I had $330 that wasn't earmarked for something else. I'd finally have that tb of space I want.

 

[JohnWPB]

Damn I wish I had $330 that wasn't earmarked for something else. I'd finally have that tb of space I want.

Actually $220 will get you a Terabyte of space......

 

[Micah]

Damn I wish I had $330 that wasn't earmarked for something else. I'd finally have that tb of space I want.

Actually $220 will get you a Terabyte of space......

...absolutely right, I should have specified. Let me try again:

Damn I wish I had $330 that wasn't earmarked for something else. I'd finally have that RAID5 tb of space that I want.