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250 gig sata drives for 119 @ Compusa w/ instore p/u
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picked up 2 Hitachi 250 gig sata drives tonight for my g5. each drive was 119 after the 40 dollar rebate. Yanked my old 80 out after doing a full backup and the machine is faster and now I won't keep running out of space! Hope someone else finds this helpful...
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http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...140&pfp=SEARCH
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Originally posted by powerbook867:
picked up 2 Hitachi 250 gig sata drives tonight for my g5. each drive was 119 after the 40 dollar rebate. Yanked my old 80 out after doing a full backup and the machine is faster and now I won't keep running out of space! Hope someone else finds this helpful...
link:
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...140&pfp=SEARCH
Nifty deal; thanks for sharing.
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Guess I'm stopping by the CompUSA on the way home. 
Thanks for the tip.
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just an update, the drives are fast and relatively quiet. I thought I had a problem with one of them and so I yanked it. Ended up being a feature not a flaw. Every now and then the drive makes a slight "mew" sound. I thought I narrowed it down just to my back up drive that I yanked, but the drive with the OS made the same noise once or twice during the hour I was testing.
I was going to take it back to Compusa, but I found a reference on Anandtech's forum and I'm pretty sure it's normal. I zero'd the drive I was going to return and it came back with no issues. It seems to happen when there is no activity on the drive even though I turned off the hibernate feature in sys prefs for hard disk usage.
I'm not going to worry about it, just thought I'd give you guys a heads up! TONS of space now!!
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That's a crazy kind of cheap. I wish I needed a hard drive worse than I need a new set of tires... Must... prioritize...
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Heh, heh, heh... I bought one and my wife bought one... one rebate per household... my "household" is at work, hers is a "normal home." Why do they do that, "one rebate per household?"
I have three 7K250s... the one purchased several months ago contracted the "click of death." Zeroed it twice, still clicked. Tried an "8-way random write"... after 33 hours and approx. 33% on the progress bar, Disk Utility crashed. The drive went back to Hitachi yesterday!
So, my normal HD configuration is 2 X 250GB Maxtor 7Y250s, 3 X 250GB Hitachi 7K250s, Sonnet Tempo-X 4+4, g5bracket... works like a charm... (the bad 7K250 was acting up 6 weeks before the Sonnet/bracket addition).
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nice. I would like to get another Seagate 200GB drive and put it and the other one in a RAID configuration for redundancy and faster read time, but I really can't afford it, or this. but, I'm doing good on space, so that's a non-issue really. I suppose I'll just wait. This is a great deal though.
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Great, after I paid $205 for a 300gb Maxtor SATA!
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dammitall, I just spent $112 for a 160GB seagate.
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Yeah the Hitachi drives all do an occasional calibration that sounds like a woman humming a three-note tune. It's a weird sound but normal.
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Just got the same drive from NewEgg a couple days ago for around $140 shipped. So about $15 more than the CompUSA drive, once I factor in sales tax. That's a damn good deal - under 50 cents per GB!
About two weeks ago I saw a couple places selling 300 GB Seagate PATA drives for $150 after a mail-in rebate. Pretty good deal as well, but I really would rather have a SATA drive.
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VERY tempting. I was going to go with dual ATA 250s on my G5 purchase next week . . . does anyone know what kinda drives Apple is stuffing in the G5 boxes now?
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I would imagine they are still using Seagate. I decided to get 2 of these drives today, when I pulled the primary it was Seagate.
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Originally posted by powerbook867:
picked up 2 Hitachi 250 gig sata drives tonight for my g5. each drive was 119 after the 40 dollar rebate. Yanked my old 80 out after doing a full backup and the machine is faster and now I won't keep running out of space! Hope someone else finds this helpful...
link:
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...140&pfp=SEARCH
Just finished installing a 250 that I picked up on my way home from work. Cool beans! Now I have 500 gb internal and 250 gb external. 3/4 tb! wOOt!
Thanks for the tip!
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Originally posted by voth:
I would imagine they are still using Seagate. I decided to get 2 of these drives today, when I pulled the primary it was Seagate.
what size? I might buy it off you if it's a 200GB 
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I don't think Apple uses 200 GB hard drives in any of their systems. They just have 40 GB (in the low-end eMac), 80 GB, 160 GB, and 250 GB.
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Looks like serial ATA 160 or 250 or 2 x 250GB in the 2.5 G5.
Shouldn't be a problem pulling the 160 out and hooking up two of the Hitachi 250s in there as an array would it?
Thanks!
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you can pull the 160 and put in 2x250 if you want, yeah.
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Originally posted by MORT A POTTY:
what size? I might buy it off you if it's a 200GB
Actually in my G5 they were 160gb, sorry.
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