Good deal on a hard drive at Best Buy

[Paul408Notch]

Just picked up a 320GB Seagate SATA HD at Best Buy tonight for 59 bucks. It's a hell of a drive, and I haven't seen it anywhere else even online for under 110 bucks.

So just a little FYI for anybody that might need one, or is looking for a good nerdy Christmas present for somebody else.

[PaulFiveOh]

ah shit. Thats awesome.

[Mista Bone]

no SATA here, but 1.3 TB of storage.

[Paul408Notch]

Wow, you're special. Here's a cookie.

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[Mista Bone]

I prefer peanut butter.

[89notch]

no SATA here, but 1.3 TB of storage.

I would like to introduce the KING of random useless posts. Sometimes I dont even think your drunk when you post this shit :lol:

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Every time they have a killer deal like that, i either don't have the spare cash or i get there and they're sold out.

[Black Horse]

Staples had the Seagate (Maxor) 500gb external drives on sale for about $79 - not sure if they are still on sale.

[Katmandu]

Just picked up a 320GB Seagate SATA HD at Best Buy tonight for 59 bucks. It's a hell of a drive, and I haven't seen it anywhere else even online for under 110 bucks.:eek:

Have you noticed any increased responsiveness/speed with the SATA drive over ATA ? :confused:

[Mista Bone]

I would like to introduce the KING of random useless posts. Sometimes I dont even think your drunk when you post this shit :lol:

no longer self medicating, you'll see more useless bipolar influenced posts. Sleep deprivation not helping either.

:screwy:

yes, I myself would like to see the difference between PATA and SATA....but that would be best with a new tower and Vista for cost effective reasons.

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

FWIW, i have 3 drives in one of my PCs...a 40gb, 200gb (both of these are typical IDE drive) and one 500gb SATA drive, and the SATA is the fastest of all of them even with the larger size. It's just too bad my OS is on the 40gb drive.

[Mista Bone]

I'm going back to putting the OS on a 40GB. If it does fail, less data lost.

I have a 400GB and 40GB internal, in process of switching everything over......then a 500 GB and 400 GB Seagate USB Externals. They are the older design. I've had 3 HDD's fail/die. All were Samsung.

One was totally toast, then 160 GB the wiper arm keeps sweeping across/clicking, it has data I'd like to recover, then the 80 GB that came with the tower when new. Windows ended up getting corrupted, now the drive has SMART error, lucky I got all data off it before removing it.

I do backups twice a week, I have 60 GB partioned off on the 500 GB for backing up the OS.

Torrent sharing is rough on hard drives, I share alot of TV shows.

[PonymanfiveO]

I'm going back to putting the OS on a 40GB. If it does fail, less data lost.

I have a 400GB and 40GB internal, in process of switching everything over......then a 500 GB and 400 GB Seagate USB Externals. They are the older design. I've had 3 HDD's fail/die. All were Samsung.

One was totally toast, then 160 GB the wiper arm keeps sweeping across/clicking, it has data I'd like to recover, then the 80 GB that came with the tower when new. Windows ended up getting corrupted, now the drive has SMART error, lucky I got all data off it before removing it.

I do backups twice a week, I have 60 GB partioned off on the 500 GB for backing up the OS.

Torrent sharing is rough on hard drives, I share alot of TV shows.



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[mustang8998]

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Easy Matt, we all know that Mista needs to compensate for his own "hard drive". :lol: