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400 GB Seagate SATA – $110

FRYS.com has the Seagate 400GB ST3400633AS-RK Serial ATA (SATA/300) retail hard drive for $109.99 with free shipping.


500 GB Western Digital SATA Drive – $150

Best Buy has the Western Digital 500GB Internal SATA WD5000KSRTL hard drive for $149.99 with free shipping.


500 GB Maxtor MaXLine Pro SATA Drive – $146

Newegg has the Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 7H500F0 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s OEM hard drive for $139.99 with $5.94 shipping. This in an “enterprise” SATA drive rated for 24/7 operation, has faster error recovery so it doesn’t fall out of RAID arrays, additional methods to deal with vibration, and a five year warranty.


1,000 GB Hitachi 7K1000 Drive – $399
January 5, 2007 0 Comments
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But not for a while. The Tech Report is reporting that Hitachi has announced 1 TB hard drives for under $400. They will include 32 MB of cache and new power saving features, but will not be out until the 2nd Quarter. Seagate will have their terabyte drives out sometime in the first half of this year.


750 GB Seagate SATA Drive – $330

ZipZoomFly has the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB Serial ATA(SATA) 7200RPM hard drive for $329.99 with free shipping.


150 GB Western Digital Raptor – $190 after MIR

A $5 price drop. Newegg now has the Western Digital Raptor 150GB 3.5″ Serial ATA150 OEM hard drive for $219.99 – $30 mail in rebate = $219.99 with free shipping.


250GB Value Drive External eSATA – $50 after MIR/GCO

Buy.com has the Value Drive 250GB 3.5in eSATA External 7200rpm Hard Drive (EXSA-35S-250G72) for $104.99 – $35 mail in rebate – $20 for using Google Checkout = $49.99.


400 GB Seagate PATA Drive – $120

FRYS.com has the Seagate 3.5 PATA 400 GB ATA/100 hard drive for $119.99 with free shipping. Frys.com claims the drive includes perpendicular recording tech, but googling the model number says it’s a 7200.7 model, which is not perpendicular.