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300GB SATA Seagate Barracuda on New Egg for 105 bucks

mjkjhbjmjkjhbj
edited April 2006 in Technology
I found this on New Egg. I believe this is today only.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM $105.00


New Egg

Comments

  • mjkjhbjmjkjhbj
    Forgot to add that there is no rebate.
  • frostbitten_pandafrostbitten_panda
    God damn, I think my 300 gig Seagate ATA is that, and I know it cost me like $180.

    I know I'm going to buy one or 2.
  • AprecheApreche
    Nah, it's been that price for awhile now. It was actually $99 the last time I looked. Price went up.
  • glimpsterglimpster
    I'll just buy that Seagate 700GB drive for $600. There goes all my cash.
  • JameskunJameskun
    The 300GB are at the sweet spot in the price per GB ratio now. The 300GB and the 250GB actually are just about tied at around $.37 per GB. Anything smaller or larger then that and the ratio starts going up, for example the current 400GB drives are running $.51 per GB and the 200GB drives are $.44.

    It will be a while I think before the new perpendicular storage model drives like the 750GB Seagate hit that sweet spot.
  • AprecheApreche
    edited April 2006
    Iomega NAS

    What do you guys think about something like that?
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  • RymRym
    We might purchase it for GeekNights.
  • AlexAlex
    The Iomega bit looks cool. Dollars-per-GB ratio is relatively low, though...might it be cheaper to buy a bunch of smaller drives (like the ones mentioned at the top of this thread) and stick them in a cheap computer with an equivalent NIC?
  • AprecheApreche
    Yeah, I'm thinking a computer with software RAID5 might be better value. But it wont have the cool wireless bits or the easily configured features.
  • JameskunJameskun
    edited April 2006
    I like the flexibility of a cheap computer with Linux or BSD. Easier to upgrade with more drives, instead of external USB. Plus you can set it up to use things like LVM and have snapshot-style backup capabilities.

    I also don't think the WiFi is much of a feature. I mean, you already have an access point in your place what use is a second one?
    Post edited by Jameskun on
  • AprecheApreche
    Is it an access point? I got the feeling that it was a wi-fi card, not an AP. That way you could plug the thing into an outlet and hide it somewhere rather than run a network cable to it. Am I wrong?
  • JameskunJameskun
    I just saw '802.11g with WEP and WPA' and '10/100 Mbps network ethernet port required' on the tech specs page. I figured the wireless must be an AP, probably to support a media center box of some sort.

    Besides, I can't imagine wanting to run a large file server like that through a wireless connection.
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