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Hey guys -

Today's Shell Shocker

http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx


is a Seagate 80GB 2.5" 5400 RPM SATA HDD for $19.99 (Limit 3)


Now before you go all apesh!t over that ABSURDLY low price, there IS a caveat:

It's NOT a Laptop HDD.

It's a 2.5" HDD designed for STATIONARY APPLICATIONS like POS terminals and Kiosks, video game consoles and DVRs, etc.

See MFR application sheet here:

http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/marketing/po_ld25_2.pdf

I figured for 20 bux I'd get it as a spare HDD for my firewall/router... I'm sure there are dozens of other good uses for a cheap HDD like this as well.

mnem
SQUEEEEE!

 

I'm gonna buy this and put it in my toughbook and then drop my toughbook a thousand times to try and break this drive... I'll bet ya a nickel that it would be FINE!

 

Notice it only has 2mb cache. Probably good for a portable USB housing. Maybe not so good for a system drive.

Glen

 

Dewed... a couple years ago 2mb cache was ALL THERE WAS... I'm not suggesting this for use in your brammy-new Win7 machine; it's too small anyways. But for a router or XP workstation, it's gonna be PLENTY... the throughput is still 5 times that of ANY IDE drive. And NOTE - it is NOT designed for ANY PORTABLE APPLICATION.

For 20 bux, it's a steal for guys trying to build cheap machines for fleet use or to give away like I do...

mnem<~~~ CHEAP ~~~<<<

 

Sold out 2100 hours.

 

BAM!!!

Glad I got mine when I did...

mnem
80GB for you, 160GB for me...

 

Isn't this like having a Toughbook made out of plastic?... Like Dull Laptop?

 

In what way?

It's just a 2.5" HDD that's made without the laptop HDD "drop sensor" to make it cheaper to produce for OEMs wanting stationary applications. There are a LOT of stationary devices which use 2.5" HDDs to cut down on size, weight, heat and/or power consumption. This HDD was made to cater to them at a lower price point.

Remember, when the CF-28 was made NO HDD had a "drop sensor"...

mnem
Fnord.

 

Wow, a pair of these would have been perfect for network storage on my router! Oh, well, you snooze, you lose!

 

What kind of router do you have that accepts network storage drives?

 

Cisco had the NS 5400 series on the commercial line... now you can buy a LinkSys home router with USB port for NAS.

WRT350N, WRT160NL

mnem
Storage... storridge!

 

Well I presently have a Galaxy 3500MGB-Raid Pro 2 SATA Drive NAS enclosure hooked by Ethernet to my WRT54GS with an Alchemy firmware upgrade and dual triple stacked 9dBi Collinear Antennas.

I have looked at the D-Link DIR-685 as I presently have no N compatibility, but it is a little too "pretty" for my taste!

But frankly, I ultimately want a LOT more in the way of network storage to be accessed remotely. These drives would have just given me a cheap way to play with the technology.