Seagate 200gig for 100 dollars

[Greg12]

Damn this is a good deal.

[rallynavvie]

CompUSA? Yeah, but that's a big mail-in rebate. Still it's interesting considering I paid almost 3 times that not a year ago for each of the two 200GB drives I have

[Faustus]

what? where? how?who?

[Faustus]

Nevermind, found it linked off techbargains.

Sweet deal.. if only I had some cash.

[Greg12]

i got it, second to the last one. my dad said i need to let it come to room temp for 24 hours before i install it.

i'll add it tomarrow


a 200 gig NTFS slave.

[ChrisX]

i got it, second to the last one. my dad said i need to let it come to room temp for 24 hours before i install it.

Must be very cold at Maryland.

[Craig Tucker]

I have never heard of letting a drive stand for 24 hours before installing it.

Best avatar so far Chris. Shame about the flag though. You can take that whichever way you like

[jeex]

wouldnt it already be at room temp while it was at the store?
and doesnt the drive run quite a bit hotter than room temp?

[rallynavvie]

Oops. I bought one and then had my store buy me one. Now with my external hard drives I'm sitting at 1.2 TB of hard drive space

[handyguy]

officedepot should have a WD 160gig for $70 after two rebates. techbargains.com has that info but their price didn't include an online coupon they have.

[mujahid7ia]

I'm seeing a lot of drives @ 50 cents (US) per gigabyte.

I saw at OfficeMax 80GB 7200RPM WD SE for $40 USD, and a 160GB for $80. WD is giving big mfr rebates, and OfficeMax is also rebating them.

[gmatov]

Letting a drive come to room temp, in the sealed bag, is to keep the humidity in your house condensing on it. Can't say in it, since they are sealed.

My last couple 160s were 1/2 a buck a gig, 4 - 6 months ago. I think they're going lower, still.

But don't let that keep you from buying one if you need or want it.

Cheers,

George

[edsmith77]

gmatov,
just because the disk is sealed does not mean it is not subject to condensation forming on the inside either (excluding vacuum sealing). The reason for temperature stabilization is to allow all of the components to return to a stable state. However, the time it takes for a person to travel from a warm store to their car (which presumably warm) to their house. Does not seem to warrant a 24hr soak period. Now if it was sitting is a cold strorage room for weeks, then it would seem that a soak period is in order.

[Greg12]

my dad left it for 4 hours in 28 degree weather.

[gmatov]

Ed,

So, there!

I don't know if they're hermetically sealed. There are little stickers covering holes, most of which say Warranty void if removed.

But 4 hours at 28 should warrant a little care.
True, you want them to be the same temp through and through, but by the same token, they get hot from use from the inside out, so I think they have engineered them to take temp differential into consideration.

Personally, I install stuff pretty soon after I get it home, a few hours at most. Rare for anything to fail, so temp must not have too much effect on the stuff I have.

Cheers,

George

[edsmith77]

George,
yea, those stickers were to scare away probing little suckers like us. But ya know I did not learn to read very well. I have found that most are not hermetically sealed but some are. Even after opening them up and putting the lid back on they still are going strong. In my 20+ years in this business, I have only had 2 disks to go bad on me and they gave me plenty of warning that they were going bad. I've never had a complete failure just happen.
Aside from the anxious want to "get it installed" desire, a little waiting is good for the soul.

Ed

[gmatov]

Ed,

If I recall correctly, the drag of air from the spinning disk was what got the heads to "float" the proper distance from the platters. So, if they actually were under a vacuum, no air, no aerodynamic effect, heads would touch down and scrape the media, as they did with a scratch back then, especially since you had to "park" in the LZ, Landing Zone(?).

And, too, most of the heat generated is from thrashing thru the air. Now this I understand all too well from once working in a factory that built centrifugal compressors, moving air at a brisk pace does build up heat, and quickly.

Still, if I needed more space, wouldn't hesitate to buy one of these. Just not sure why some of our "faster, faster" crowd would buy a Seagate, ATA 100, when Max and WD are ATA 133, although you, I presume, and certainly I, don't think it is needed for vid cap or DV throughput. Simply do the math.

Cheers,

George