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750GB SATA HD for $60 - john dough - 04-11-2009
At these prices, I may just pick one up as a spare. These are "green" drives and they run from 5400 to 7200 RPM (meaning they spin faster as needed) so this would not be an ideal primary drive but one for backup.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136150&Tpk=N82E16822136150
I remember getting a 100MB years ago for $400 and was LOADED with space!
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - mikebw - 04-11-2009
I would not buy a hard drive unless you intend to use it right away. If you buy it now as a spare it might not get used for months, and by then 750's will be even cheaper.
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - rz - 04-11-2009
$0.08/GB. Not bad, but the smallest I'll buy these days is 1TB.
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - john dough - 04-11-2009
Just last week I had 4 drives in my closet (2 x 500GB, 2 x 1TB) and today I have zero. My clients have been busy with restructuring and adding new workstations to change folks from running Vista Home to XP Pro and I can upcharge $20 on these drives easily.
I may buy 2 more just in case.
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - mikebw - 04-11-2009
john dough wrote:
Just last week I had 4 drives in my closet (2 x 500GB, 2 x 1TB) and today I have zero. My clients have been busy with restructuring and adding new workstations to change folks from running Vista Home to XP Pro and I can upcharge $20 on these drives easily.
I may buy 2 more just in case.
Ahh, in that case go for it! I didn't realize there was potential for resale.
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - michaelb - 04-12-2009
I won't pretend to be an expert or actually know this, but in researching SATA drives a few weeks ago, my understanding of the WD "green" drives is that they do not spin up to 7200; when tested they all spin at 5400 all the time. I can't remember now why that was wasn't misleading fraud, but WD had some sort of lame explanation.
Otherwise, they seemed like good, quiet, drives to consider (but I wanted 7200).
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - mikebw - 04-12-2009
Maybe that falls into this new trend of putting numbers into larger "classes". Like many 46" LCD TV's now might say they are a "46 inch class" TV, but in reality that is actually 45.5".
So perhaps the WD green drives are in the 7200rpm class, but that just means it is actually less than 7200rpm.
Re: 750GB SATA HD for $60 - AllGold - 04-12-2009
I don't really care how fast they spin. All I know is my WD 1TB "green" drive is the quietest drive I have ever had. It also uses the least amount of power. I'm using it for storage though, not boot or scratch so I don't need spectacular performance.