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    a good website to buy hds?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by azntiger1000, Mar 4, 2007.

  1. azntiger1000

    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    Does anyone know a good website to buy a hd for my Sony FE-890? I am looking for a 7200 rpm 100gb hard drive. I already checked out newegg.com and I was wondering if there were any other good websites. Thanks.
     
    azntiger1000, Mar 4, 2007
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    CeeNote Notebook Virtuoso

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    tigerdirect.com or ncix.com
     
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    SPEEDwithJJ NBR Super Idiot

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    The best price to get the Seagate 100GB 7200rpm HDD is probably at newegg as they have it for $119.99 + $5.29 shipping! The Hitachi is also being offered for sale at newegg for the same price as well.
     
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  4. azntiger1000

    azntiger1000 Notebook Deity

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    Yea I've been looking all over the place. I'm not sure if it is rare or something, but for laptops 7200rpm is not really popular especially in laptops. I went to Frys and they only sold 5400rpms.
     
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    SPEEDwithJJ NBR Super Idiot

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    It is because places like Fry's don't sell OEM HDDs but retail HDDs & it is not helped by the fact that the 7200rpm HDDs for laptops are mainly released as OEM HDDs...
     
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    Maybe you can try Froogle.com for comparative shopping?
     
    Rahul, Mar 4, 2007
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  7. azntiger1000

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    Actually Frys do sell OEM hdd.

    OMG I totally forgot about froogle. Thanks for the reminder.
     
    azntiger1000, Mar 4, 2007
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    SPEEDwithJJ NBR Super Idiot

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    My bad then & I'm offering my apologies as well. I don't mean to mislead anyone else because I thought that they don't sell them as my local Fry's doesn't sell OEM laptop HDDs...
     
    SPEEDwithJJ, Mar 4, 2007
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