[clue-talk] Seagate SATA drive

[Mike Staver]

>> Hello, I'm wondering if somebody could tell me if they know of a place 
>> that would sell a Seagate SATA Barraucda hard drive locally.  I found 
>> CompUSA selling them, but for over double what this place online sells 
>> them for:
> 
> 
> If Microcenter has them on their bargain table, then they would be
> at a good price.  I picked up two 80 GB SATA drives from the bargain
> table and two 36 GB Raptors from their regular stock and the Raptors
> were very pricey.  It just depends on what they have on the tables
> by the door.
> 
> Their website shows the 120GB Maxtor at $124 and the Samsung OEM
> 120GB at $129 and a refurb Samsung 160GB at $99 which is great if
> they have them.  Western Digital, too, and the Raptors are still
> pricey at $149 for a 36GB drive.

Yeah, but once you go Seagate you never go back :) Ok, so not exactly - 
but I have been extremely impressed with the Barrauda V 7200.7 line - 
they are absolutely dead silent when running, unless you're writing a 
ton of data to them, then you can hear the drive working - but you don't 
get that annoying whine when the drive is just spinning like you do with 
Maxtor drives after a few months use.  It hasn't failed yet, we bought 
over 30 Maxtor disks over the last few years, and each and every one 
like clockwork starts whining after being in use for about 3-6 months. 
I end up having to replace them because the people with the computers 
using them get headaches from the noise.  I've never lost data with 
them, but I can't use them in desktop workstations because of the noise.

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                                 -Mike Staver
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                                  mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com