The Price Barrier Has Been Broken! 500GB SATA drive for under $100 shipped!

[motopsyco]

Will someone let me know when 750GB SATAs get to $100.

Thanks.

[rexrzer]

Seagate used to be my DOC (drive of choice), but the perpendicular drive mechanisms changed that; my Dual Core G5 came with an Apple branded Maxtor 250GB OEM drive, and it worked like a champ until I started hearing funny noises emanating from the SATA area, so out it came after a quick data transfer of all my important stuff (I didn't trouble Apple for a replacement, I mean, what would it be? Who knows??? Free, yes, but I just didn't have time to deal with it)... where did my data go? To my new DOC, a Hitachi E7K500, which I learned about through FirmTek, the maker of my SeriTek 2e/EN4 4-Bay hot-swap RAID 0 enclosure. The nice people at FirmTek have been testing the crap out of all kinds of HD's in the past couple of years, especially the SATA variety, and they've achieved the best results overall with the Hitachi brand, (from what I've heard, off-the-record) but don't let that sway you from a $$-motivated choice.

Who's to say which brand is better than another these days? It's so hard to choose. I've put my pennies and nickels and dimes into Hitachi products lately when I've had to make that choice, but tomorrow I might have one break in my RAID 0 and then I'll be disillusioned and all bummed out.(but so far, so good, and I've tortured that setup!) Gol dangit, you just can't win in the chess game of data storage...it's all karma, and belief, and well, L U C K! It's a damn crap-shoot and you pays yer $$$ and makes yer choices, just like Iggy Pop said back in 1977.B)-

If you took a poll right now amongst everyone in this Forum you'd get a whole bunch of answers, and it wouldn't make much sense in terms of choosing a new SATA HD. Joe would vote for Seagate, Jim for Hitachi, Bill for Maxtor, and on and on etc etc etc. What sense could we make of it all? Not much if you ask me.8-)

Don't you just hate it when these sales say "One per household"! o

Don't they want us to buy the "Sale Item"? At $100 for a 3-year warrantied Maxtor SATA II 500GB HD, if I was minding my $$'s carefully, and needed some big storage real fast, real cheap, I'd surely want 2 of them, not just 1. But there's that limiter again, "One per household"...why, oh why do they do that stuff?

Maybe they are just junk, and Fry's is only willing to let us get burned one time!()

But hey, at $100, I sure am not going to say "Don't do it!" That's a great deal, no doubt about it. It champions jdc's formula, and makes the GB Factor go down to .20, right as rain? Even if you can only buy one of them, I say go for it...just back it up with a Hitachi E7K500 every night, and then your worries are over? Aren't they?

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[MacMagus]

> "One per household"...why, oh why do they do that stuff?

Fry's sometimes does "two per household" sales. Keep an eye out.