A deal for ThinkPad users looking to upgrade to 7200rpm hard drive

Get a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook hard drive for only $116.10 @ Dell.com. Sale price is $129 minus 10% off for PayPal payments = $116.50.

Drive is guaranteed brand new (by four different customer service representatives, two from America, two from India) and comes with 1-year warranty.

Features:
* Provides up to 160 GB storage space
* Features SATA interface
* Offers 7200 RPM spindle speed

For more info, visit Seagate's website.

In case you're wondering how I know CS reps confirmed it is because I own this drive (as you can see in my sig) and got it from this same exact deal a few weeks back.

EDIT:

This hard drive does not have G-Shock Protection, but if your laptop already has an accelerometer on the motherboard (eg. Lenovo ThinkPad, Apple Macbook & Macbook Pro, Dell Latitude, HP business-series, etc.) then G-Shock Protection is negligible anyway.

 

What is the overall price difference between this drive through dell, and other online sources? Is it worth the drop from 5 year warranty to 1 year when buying it as OEM? Good deal through dell, but some might be concerned about the OEM to retail warranty difference.

 

I got this drive. It runs fine, same as the Seagate branded model I'm sure. I got a year warranty on my drive. That's enough for me. If the drive's defective, it tends to happen early. As always, have a good backup. I was just messing around with MediaMonkey on my iTod. Something happened and I had to restore it which wiped the drive. I lost everything on it. I use my iTod as my external drive. I had backups for all my data, but lost all the movies on it which I did not have backups for. I have all the discs, but it'll be a pain in the rear to redo them.

 

Yea I always have backups, but drives staying alive was a big deal for me. I have had 2 drives in the past year fail just outside the 1 year mark. One was a Samsung 3.5" desktop drive, and the other was Western Digital. Warranty did come into play, otherwise I would have tossed the drives in the trash and eaten the loss.

 

As tempting as that is, I would go for the additional 40 gigs and get with this model. Does anyone know if this Hitachi outperforms that one?

Tiger Direct has a rebate on it for the next 3 weeks:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...50-6020&SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASE&CMP=OTC-GOOGLEBASE

However,

Is that true?

 

Supposedly the Hitachi offers a bit better performance, but at twice the cost it doesn't seem worth it to me.

TD rebates are known to be problematic and the shipping is like $13. ZZF has it for $220 with no rebates. It would be only $7 more with no rebate hassle.

I can't imagine it don't work with XP.

 

ZZF is out of stock last I knew, I can't find it on their website right now.

EDIT: I lied

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005818

 

what kind of hdd can the t61 accept:

sata 150
sata 3.0
ata-6

 

I think it says that it doesn't work in XP because XP doesn't have SATA drivers built in...or something. I don't remember having to install drivers whenever I was helping my friend build his desktop with a SATA hdd in it.

 

Just for good measure, check out this Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB and Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 100GB from Newegg. Most people would consider Newegg to be one of the cheaper online stores. That's more than $1 a gig!! Still skeptical? (By the way, Newegg does not sell the 7200.2, but given the trend, you think they'll sell 60 more GB and perpendicular recording technology for only $10? Yeah, right.)

So you didn't even know for sure if the 7K200 outperformed the 7200.2 but were willing to pay almost 30 cents more per GB? Plus, there's a $30 rebate that you have to fiddle with, and TigerDirect rebates don't exactly have the best reputation of getting back to customers.

Yes, 7k200 is faster in benchmarks. Simple math shows that the difference between $200 for 200GB and only $116.10 for $160 is unmistakable.

 

I really want that 7200.2 drive but that 1yr kinda worries me. I have had plenty of drives fail after the 1 year mark...

Also, dont forget neweggs paypal20 code that gets you $20 off your purchase of $100 or more