Seagate 320gb 7200 rpm SATA drive at buy.com for $94 with FS

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muffd · #1 Post by **muffd** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:57 pm

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=208177962

I just ordered one and there is some 5% coupon on Fatwallet if you look. I got it for $93.xx shipped. I wasn't really looking for this drive but for under $100.00 why not. Now I gotta go through the whole reformatting process again:)

Pascal_TTH · #2 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:47 pm

If you have SATA Ultra baie, you can ghost the old one on the new one (and remove keys in the registry).

muffd · #3 Post by **muffd** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:59 pm

I don't have an ultra bay but I have an external SATA 2.5" notebook enclosure. Can I just use Acronis to clone my XP-Ubuntu dual boot setup?

Pascal_TTH · #4 Post by **Pascal_TTH** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:05 pm

Perhaps. I'am not sure it will work this way. One time, I ghost my T60p drive to a newer on a desktop unit (much more SATA ports) and the new drive did not boot. It tells about missing ntldr or something.

muffd · #5 Post by **muffd** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:25 pm

I'll test it out beforehand to make sure it works.
Thanks

Tony Chan · #6 Post by **Tony Chan** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:09 pm

Link doesn't work anymore. I think buy.com just realize they've make a mistake. Whoever bought this I just hope buy.com honours it.

muffd · #7 Post by **muffd** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:41 pm

Tony,
I don't know if it were a price mistake but the drive I bought already shipped and they only charged me $9x.xx for the drive shipped. This should be here Thursday. I'll be selling a 320gb 5400 rpm Samsung or Western Digital drive in the next few days. Just haven't decided which one I want to keep yet.

Brad · #8 Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:45 am

Cloning will work if you replace your exisiting drive with your new drive and put your exisiting drive in the enclosure.

Brad

Tony Chan · #9 Post by **Tony Chan** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:32 am

muffd, in that case congrats. That's a fantastic price. I just bought a 160gb 7k320 few days ago for about the same price with half the size from zipzoomfly.

Tomshardware puts this drive above the 7k320, and with 5 yrs warranty, it's a winner for sure.

muffd · #10 Post by **muffd** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:49 am

I'm very excited for this drive. I have debated on getting this for the past month now and said I wouldn't get it till it was under $100 which I didn't think would happen for awhile.

It did so I just had to get it and figure I could get decent money for my current hard drive so the upgrade wouldn't really cost me so much afterall.

Brad, for the cloning, do I need to make the partitions the same or will cloning take care of that for me?

runbuh · #11 Post by **runbuh** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:19 am

If you search for the drive on buy.com, you can still see the drive and the $99 price. They are out of stock, but still appear to be selling them for $99. I just ordered one for $99 delivered - we'll see how long it takes to get to me.

Try this link:
http://www.buy.com/prod/seagate-momentu ... 77956.html

steveg47 · #12 Post by **steveg47** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:40 pm

Here's a 5400rpm at Zipzoomfly. Also currently out of stock but a great price after rebate if you can get it.
HITACHI Travelstar 5K320 0A56417 320GB SATA 5400 $69.99 :
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... rodlist=cj

Nolonemo · #13 Post by **Nolonemo** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:47 pm

Thanks runbuh, I'm in. I can always use the space for video work, even though I don't REALLY need it. If they get stock at the price, great, if not, great.

tselling · #14 Post by **tselling** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:11 pm

FYI, Buy.com just notified me that they shipped my 320gb 7200rpm drive for $94 shipped. Nice price and Seagate has a good warranty. I don't know if the price was a mistake or just a sale.

muffd · #15 Post by **muffd** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:31 pm

I think it was on sale. I can't wait to go to work tomorrow now to get my new drive:)

runbuh · #16 Post by **runbuh** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:32 pm

For you folks who got the $94 order - did you get the "AS", or "ASG" version (last characters of the Seagate part number? The $99 drive I ordered was the "ASG" version ("G" has the free-fall sensor/shock sensor).

muffd · #17 Post by **muffd** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:11 am

I got the AS version.

runbuh · #18 Post by **runbuh** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:42 am

muffd wrote:I got the AS version.

Thanks. I guess $5 get you the sensor.

mybellyisempty · #19 Post by **mybellyisempty** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:45 am

I just put an order in. It's backordered, but I can certainly wait.

That'll give me a Core SSD for the OS and 320gb 7200rpm for the virtual machines.

Now to figure out what to do with all my spare harddrives.

Incidentally, the one I ordered shows ASG. What's the difference between AS and ASG?

runbuh · #20 Post by **runbuh** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:11 am

mybellyisempty wrote:What's the difference between AS and ASG?

The G indicates:

G-Force Protection
When a laptop is dropped, the most catastrophic damage to the hard drive occurs when the head scrapes across the surface of the disk, causing potential data loss. G-Force Protection, an optional drop sensor, protects the Momentus 7200.3 drive against shock by sensing when the system is in a free-fall state, moving the heads off the platter and locking them in place—all within three-tenths of a second.

http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datashe ... 7200_3.pdf

muffd · #21 Post by **muffd** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:23 pm

Just got the hard drive. It came OEM but I verified that it has warranty until August of 2013:)

Also, I'm in the process right now of cloning my hard drive that is dual booting XP and Ubuntu. Hopefully this will work. If not, I will be reinstalling everything.

runbuh · #22 Post by **runbuh** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:48 pm

muffd wrote:Also, I'm in the process right now of cloning my hard drive that is dual booting XP and Ubuntu. Hopefully this will work. If not, I will be reinstalling everything.

I used Acronis ME last night to move from the 100GB Hitachi to the new 320GB Hitachi. Source drive was internal, destination was external USB, and I booted in to ME from CD. I left the SATA BIOS setting at AHCI, and it worked on the first try. Only one partition on mine, though - XP SP3.

muffd · #23 Post by **muffd** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:02 pm

I was going to do it the same way you did it but I think I got too excited and removed the old drive right away and put that one in the enclosure. The new one obviously went into the laptop.

EDIT: Just got done with the cloning and everything works like a charm. Thanks everyone!

Crunch · #24 Post by **Crunch** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:03 am

I would use Acronis True Image. Acronis products have never let me down. You can mirror your currect drive to the new drive.

320GB 7k2 for under $100. Where do I sign up for two of those?? NICE! I have once of those Ultrabay HDD SATA drive bays, and they work at 1.5GB/s. Currently I have two 200GB Hitachi 7k2's in them. Who makes the 320GB 7k2 ones?

640GB vs. 400GB internally...what a difference that would make!!

hellosailor · #25 Post by **hellosailor** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:11 pm

I'll be a blue baboon, I thought I found a great deal ordering it yesterday from someone else for $130 shipped.

But as of today, Buy.com shows it unavailable, backordered but accepting orders still at that incredible price.

A blue baboon.

phr · #26 Post by **phr** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:54 pm

Newegg has the bare Seagate 7200 320gb drive for $109.95 and the Hitachi for $139.95. These 7200 rpm drives take somewhat more power than a 5400 rpm so I went and got the Samsung 5400 rpm 320gb (now $99.95) and I'm very happy with it, it's cool and quiet. mwave.com has the Samsung 500gb 5400 rpm drive for $169.56 with free shipping and that's probably what I'd buy if I were doing it now, though that's a 3 platter drive, so again a little more power consumption.

#27 Post by **carbon_unit** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:14 am

runbuh wrote:If you search for the drive on buy.com, you can still see the drive and the $99 price. They are out of stock, but still appear to be selling them for $99. I just ordered one for $99 delivered - we'll see how long it takes to get to me.

Try this link:
http://www.buy.com/prod/seagate-momentu ... 77956.html

Anybody receive one of these yet?

Nolonemo · #28 Post by **Nolonemo** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:31 am

I just got an email saying no longer available, order cancelled.

#29 Post by **carbon_unit** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:26 pm

I got the same thing this morning.

Congrats to anyone who got one.

Seagate 320gb 7200 rpm SATA drive at buy.com for $94 with FS

Seagate 320gb 7200 rpm SATA drive at buy.com for $94 with FS

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