Cheap(ish) 300gB Seagate SATA Drive

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Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
of rebates.

Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
 
John McGaw said:
Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box drives
on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort of price
before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February 15th. Oh,
yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort of rebates.
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Looks like a good deal...
I just purchased a 300 gig Seagate IDE drive for a machine I'm working on.
(as i was tracking the order on-line the doorbell rang with the delivery)
I paid $200 from Newegg...
just needed one fast to replace his 200gig drive which is failing...

it only seems like yesterday that i got an awed and scared feeling from
working
with a 2 gig drive!!!! how large it seemed at the time !
 
philo said:
Looks like a good deal...
I just purchased a 300 gig Seagate IDE drive for a machine I'm working on.
(as i was tracking the order on-line the doorbell rang with the delivery)
I paid $200 from Newegg...
just needed one fast to replace his 200gig drive which is failing...

it only seems like yesterday that i got an awed and scared feeling from
working
with a 2 gig drive!!!! how large it seemed at the time !
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$200. Whew! I bought a PATA Seagate 200gB in December, also from
Outpost.com the last time they had another of their stealth rebate
campaigns. Price came out to something like $80 after the rebate
(haven't received the rebate check yet but they did acknowledge receipt
of the paperwork). These sales that they sneak in seem to be very good
if one can synchorize needs with sale dates with budget but unless one
is actively checking for them they can slip past unnoticed. And assuming
that Fry's manages to keep their servers working properly for the
duration of the searching/ordering process of course...
 
John McGaw said:
$200. Whew! I bought a PATA Seagate 200gB in December, also from
Outpost.com the last time they had another of their stealth rebate
campaigns. Price came out to something like $80 after the rebate (haven't
received the rebate check yet but they did acknowledge receipt of the
paperwork). These sales that they sneak in seem to be very good if one can
synchorize needs with sale dates with budget but unless one is actively
checking for them they can slip past unnoticed. And assuming that Fry's
manages to keep their servers working properly for the duration of the
searching/ordering process of course...
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well i just checked their website for the same drive i bought
and it was $20 cheaper...not a big savings...but it looks like a good place
for
harddrives next time i need one
 
Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
of rebates.

Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
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There's a reason outpost.com stuff is so cheap...
 
theyak said:
There's a reason outpost.com stuff is so cheap...
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And that reason is? I've ordered from them possibly six times over the
past few years. Every time the products were as advertised, were
delivered in a few days, and worked perfectly. I wish I could say the
same about some other online/catalog companies I've dealt with. I've had
more problems (one to be exact) with orders from newegg.com than I've
had with outpost.com.
 
John said:
Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
of rebates.
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Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you
will forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an
error and everything will be lost.

Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files
on them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info?
You will have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!
 
William W. Plummer said:
Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you will
forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an error
and everything will be lost.

Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files on
them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info? You will
have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!
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the guy who's machine i just worked on is a professional photographer...
and he's got about 500gigs of photos . they are all done in photoshop
and have up to 100 layers...so are quite large in size.

he usually keeps the originals on dvd's but no matter how many times i tell
him to backup everything...i just don't think he's ever going to burn 100 or
more
dvd's...
as long as he's got the original photo backed up...he could at least
recreate his work if he really had to...
thus far i;ve been able to save his data before he's had a total harddrive
failure...
but thar hardly means i will be able to save his stuff every time...

anyway...i agree... burn dvd's for everything
now convince him to do that !
 
William said:
Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you
will forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an
error and everything will be lost.

Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files
on them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info? You
will have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!
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Is smaller better? I've probably got some sub-1gB full-height SCSI
drives hanging around in the junkbox if you'd care to bid on them ;-)

Actually, as soon as one starts messing around with editing large media
files the motivation toward larger drives is pretty immediate. So when I
saw an opportunity to replace the present 160gB drive with one nearly
twice as large I didn't stop to think about it for too long. Having the
extra space will allow me to think less about swapping files in and out
so that when motivation strikes me I can just get started rather than
digging around for my materials. Oh, and I do keep verified backups of
everything both on CD/DVD-ROM and on my file-server (an old machine in
the basement that will soon be gaining a relatively new 160gB drive).
 
And that reason is? I've ordered from them possibly six times over the
past few years. Every time the products were as advertised, were
delivered in a few days, and worked perfectly. I wish I could say the
same about some other online/catalog companies I've dealt with. I've had
more problems (one to be exact) with orders from newegg.com than I've
had with outpost.com.
Click to expand...


Fry's happily take your returns of defective merchandise and then put
them right back on the shelf. Outpost = Fry's.
 
Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you
will forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an
error and everything will be lost.

Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files
on them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info?
You will have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!
Click to expand...

You are assuming it is impossible or unrealistic to be organized, to
perform regular backups, that no one deals with large files or needs
to have an archive of files online, that cdr or dvdr's in general are
highly reliable & that a single copy of anything could render backups
unnecessary.

All false assumptions.

Besides due to greater aureal density the 300 & 400 gig 7200.8's are a
little faster than their predecessors. A 40 gig ata drive would be a
real dog by comparison. It would also be far too expensive as the
prices for these older items can only drop so low.
 
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