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Title: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: slipknot on July 31, 2006, 07:48:43 pm
Get 'em while they're hot...     (ST3750640AS-D)

Seagate 750 gig SATA hard drive with 5 years warranty for $350.  No rebates, no sales tax (unless you're in CA) and free shipping

http://www.basoncomputer.com/item.aspx?id=ST3750640AS-D

Having more hard drive only encourages me to get more music...
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: KingSparta on August 01, 2006, 05:54:08 am
I kind of wonder when the 1000 Gig drives will be out
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: Mike Noe on August 01, 2006, 09:50:25 am
SPCR has a very good review of this latest Barracuda (ST3750640AS) (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article611-page1.html).
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: iajim on August 01, 2006, 04:28:08 pm
Best Buy is saying 1000's late Aug.

they have LaCie 500's for $250
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: benn600 on August 04, 2006, 01:28:27 pm
They had Lacie 600GB drives a short while back--a week or two after I bought 3 WD 500GB drives for only about $20 less per drive than the 600GB drives!
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: hit_ny on August 04, 2006, 01:41:06 pm
When are the SATA-2 drives coming out ?
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: newsposter on August 04, 2006, 02:11:30 pm
If you're going to start using those huge great mucking drives, be sure to go to RAID1 (mirroring) in your workstation.

You can get decently fast RAID1 controllers (SATA or PATA) for less than $15 at newegg.com.  If you want an intelligent controller with lots of battery-backed cache memory, plan on spending $100 and up.

Personally, I believe that workstations need minimal disk, huge chunks of disk belong in a well-designed NAS sitting on the network.
Title: Re: OT: Seagate 750 gig HD for $350
Post by: hit_ny on August 04, 2006, 02:35:45 pm
Quote from: newsposter on August 04, 2006, 02:11:30 pm
Personally, I believe that workstations need minimal disk, huge chunks of disk belong in a well-designed NAS sitting on the network.
Compare MC's performance with media on a network vs. in a workstation.