Dell Seagate 500gb 7200rpm (7200.4) SATA 2.5" HD w/Free Fall Sensor for $95.99 + Free 2nd Business Day Shipping!

---DEAL ENDED. PRICE IS $114.99 as of June 5, 2009---


Yesterday, the price was $145.99 for one harddrive on the Dell website. Keep in mind, according to the dell sales people on the phone, these are backordered/out of stock so it won't arrive until June (my order of 2 says it won't ship till 6/19/2009)

Here's the link to the hard drive: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=341-8658



Here's the details for the Free Shipping although it doesn't make much sense to me: http://ecomm.dell.com/dellstore/Pop...=SNA&s=bsd&l=en&cs=04&c=us&campitem_id=117112

Small Business customers receive Free 2nd Day shipping on select Cameras and Storage!

Limited time offer!
Offer excludes Software & Peripherals purchases under $49, and any Dell PowerConnect Switch or Software & Peripheral item selected in the systems offer pages. All 3-5 day shipping is valid in the Continental U.S. only (not available in Alaska). Free shipping is lowest cost (3-5 day) shipping. Offer excludes EMC and SAN storage products; PowerVault storage products; PowerConnect products; PowerEdge 1855, 3250, 4600, 6600, 6650 and 7250 servers; software and peripherals items under $50 and software and peripherals items in the systems offer pages. Free shipping offers may be limited to select items, and you may incur shipping charges if you add add or substitute items to your order. Refer to offer details for details of particular free shipping offers.


*Note*: If you add more than one to your cart, you invoke the free 3-5 day shipping for orders over $129 (valid till 5/31). You have to click the Shipping option in your cart to change it to the free 2nd day shipping.

I hope this helps and makes sense. I'm not sure how long this price will last or what the free shipping applies to exactly (DellChat wouldn't work for me on Chrome nor Firefox and I didn't feel like calling them again) but I hope this helps someone!

 

Thanks for the deal, I received shipping confirmation and is scheduled to be delivered June 2nd.

 

just ordered, hopefully it's the latest firmware.

 

Stackable 10% off coupon PS41S3BF?8?XC3

Gets it down to $85!!!

 

damn thats good deal... though its US only... <__<

 

Will this fit into Dell E6400?

 

Is this during or after purchase? Didn't see this, and I already bought mine...

*sigh*

 

Yes .

 

In for 2!! Thanks for the heads up! I didn't see this on slick deals and those people will suck their inventory dry. Hopefully no one alerts them.

 

Thanks Ordered

 

Will anyone buy for resale? I'm very interested in one but can't take advantage of the offer since I'm in Puerto Rico.

 

Sweet, I ordered two. It should make a nice upgrade to my current 60GB 5400 rpm drive that dual boots

Thanks alitunay and nerdn00b

 

Thank you, in for two, and it shows as already shipped with a FedEx tracking number.
I ordered today as well. Not bad for Sunday service...

 

Wow, mine showing shipped also.

 

just be aware that these are not covered by Seagate's 3-year warranty.

fyi.

 

How do you know?

 

?
These are sold directly as accessories from the Dell link provided.
These are NOT Dell Repair Service parts...
Therefore they are sold with the full Seagate warranty.

Not like them HP drives awhile back, those had been service parts.

USA > Small & Medium Business > Accessories > External Hard Drives, Data Storage & Backup > Internal Hard Drives > SATA 2.5

 

This deal has now made the front page of slick deals. Expect their inventory to go *poof*.

 

So it's 1 year through Dell instead of 3 through Seagate. For nearly 50% off retail I'm not complaining.

 

No, they will have the full 3-year

 

Aren't they considered OEM and not retail?

 

OEM comes in TWO forms.
OEM as sold by NewEgg and many other online & retail resellers would be BULK packed products without retail packaging and no extras, just the drive within a anti-static bag in this case.
Then you have OEM component parts, those are sold to builders / system integrators to be installed within the hardware they sell, those would carry the warranty of that given hardware that Dell installed them into prior to the purchase, or if considered a Repair Replacement part.
These are being sold from the Dell normal consumer accessories page.

 

Aye, excellent deal. Absolute overkill storage wise for me, but I couldn't resist ordering one for my pet project.

 

I may need to eat some warranty crow.
I just received my email that my order shipped, even though i read it online a some time ago.
Now they "DELL" has changed the description of the part on the final email.
500GB Hard Drive 9.5MM 7200RPMfor Mobile Precision MX400 Customer Install

The original description said:
500 GB 7200 RPM Momentus 7200.4 Serial ATA Hard Drive with Free Fall Sensor

Dell is playing games, they just turned the order into a replacement part the way it looks.

 

So back to 1 year? It's cheap enough that as long as it's not DOA I'm happy.

 

Yeah, I assumed it was a 1yr warranty. A 3yr would be icing on the cake.

$102.71 shipped is a great price on this drive.

 

Man with that 10% off coupan its coming out to be around $92 including shipping. the best part:

I ordered today and initialy it showed 23rd June as delivery date but later I got a confirmation it as shipped and I will get it by 3rd June. What else you can ask for

 

My last order was $173.38 shipped for 2 of them with my 15% coupon. I bought the same drive right when it came out and paid $140 for 1.

 

short answer: because I know.

long answer: because I bought a pair of these in March, then cancelled after having a long discussion with both Seagate and with Dell.

These are DELL Momentus 500GB 7200rpm HDDs. They have DELL firmware on them and a DELL sticker on them (rather than a Seagate sticker). These are covered by Dell's 1-year warranty and are considered OEM products.

Seagate essentially gives Dell all responsibility for these drives.

considering the track record of 7200.4's, I decided against this because they seemed to have problems. Dunno what the track record on the Dell-rebranded Momentus drives is.

search my posts in the official 7200.4 thread for more details on my calls. no need to take my word for it, though. call Seagate or Dell yourself and verify if you're not confident in my comments for whatever reason. I promise my feelings won't be hurt.

If you want a SEAGATE branded hard drive covered by Seagate's 3-year warranty, you'll have to look elsewhere. Dell sells the Seagate-brand drives, as does Newegg and others.

 

^^^ correct i went through the same thing with these last time as well

 

I understood everything up until this last sentence. Newegg has their own firmware? I tried searching your posts but NBR said searching is disabled. You said these disks have Dell firmware, not that it matters but are end users allowed to flash these drives? I've seen a couple posts around with people hoping to have the latest firmware and I keep thinking why? Do they not make updated firmware available to everyone?

 

i dont believe the firmware is specific to dell but they were labelled with dell stickers. and i called seagate to confirm and gave the serial last time and they said it was only 1 year. the firmware part i can not confirm. but i know i still have the ones i got and both ended up dying on me and i had to have them replaced so i know FOR SURE what seagate told me when i called to get the rms number

 

apologies.

Dell sells the real "Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB" HDD...AND their own "Dell Momentus". as does Newegg and others.

Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148374

Dell: my old link now says "product not currently available", which makes sense, because they keep pushing back people's orders. I re-ordered this model back in March and have yet to receive them

Others: http://www.google.com/products?q=se...a=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

so yea, as far as I know, only Dell computer/parts reseller that sells their own version of Momentus (Dell Momentus 7200.4) and the regular version of the Momentus (Seagate Momentus 7200.4). everyone else just sells the regular version.

hope that's more clear.

and zfactor, Seagate told me those drives have Dell custom firmware on them. Dunno for sure if they actually wrote their own firmware or if Seagate just says that to further make the point that they don't provide warranty support...but that's what they told me. Nice guy, as I recall. He recommended I get a regular drive...so here I am. still waiting. lol.

 

I bought mine pretty much the day it came out and have no issues currently but it's not in a gaming system. So if there are some underlying issues I'm not seeing it.

 

well that's good and that's what we all hope for, long term, Mandrake. Lots of people speculate that the reason these drives have been impossible to find over the last few months is because there were problems with either the build, design or firmware. some people in the official 7200.4 thread reported problems. the latest trickle of drives have come with a new firmware previously not available that older drives cannot "upgrade" to.

we'll hope you got a good one, as well as everyone else in the thread that jumped on one of these. I just wanted to make sure people weren't buying these under any false pretenses or illusions about what they're getting. I did, back in March. these Dells may have better firmware for all I know. Maybe worse. But people should know what to expect and look for, you know?

 

Now that I read people have been having issues watch mine crash and burn.

 

nah, I hope not. nothing worse than a HDD failing.

 

I will be on the phone first thing tomorrow AM and ask Dell why the games with completely changing the item description only when indicated shipped.
When order was placed the page said:
500 GB 7200 RPM Momentus 7200.4 Serial ATA Hard Drive with Free Fall Sensor
As well with the next two Dell emails.
#1 Dell Order Has Been Acknowledged
#2 Dell Order Has Been Confirmed

Then with the #3 email, Dell Order Has Shipped, they decided to change the item description to nothing that resembles the original item ordered, unless you consider 500 GB & 7200 RPM as close enough.
Then they added in "for Mobile Precision MX400 Customer Install"


No mention of Momentus 7200.4 or even the Free Fall Sensor in the item description as ordered.
This fact alone don't play well with me.
i will likely refuse the shipment at the door and just let Dell eat the lost shipping cost

Good drive or not, Big business needs to stop all the games

 

Ack, the newegg reviews have me scared, I'll try to cancel the order.

 

PS41S3BF?8?XC3

Now down to 86.39 shipped with this coupon code.

Dang thats over $40 cheaper than when I ordered them a few weeks ago.

shucks

 

It's not like you get no warranty. I still believe this is the biggest bang for your buck as far as notebook storage is concerned. I've been shopping for SSD waiting for some good deals until this came along. Now I can spend more on other upgrades instead of buying SSD.

 

Its not just about the warranty, if the HDD fails, its a massive pain. i dont really want to give my money to companies which release products before the kinks have been worked out.

 

For those who bought this drive a couple of days ago, can we still cash in the coupon, or do we have to cancel the order and do it over with the coupon?

Thanks!

 

the order is shipped, so according to what I read on their website. You have to return the hard drive then re-order it again.

 

That's a rule I live by at work....just not with my personal purchases.

 

I cancelled my order. I can wait another two months to see if the problems have been fixed

 

What problem?

 

My drives came in today. Which firmware is the latest?

 

I got mine. It says Seagate Momentus 500GB.

 

Check out the newegg reviews. There seems to be a high failure rate. There is also speculation that there is some manufacturing problem, and that is causing the delays in these drives being shipped from seagate.