February 17, 201115 yr Back on sale again... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145475&nm Good until 20-Feb Regards, Peter
February 17, 201115 yr According to a few Newegg reviewers this drive has some slow sectors. I'm not sure what that means though.
February 17, 201115 yr According to a few Newegg reviewers this drive has some slow sectors. I'm not sure what that means though. Me either. The 2 that I bought last week preceleared in 22 hours per cycle. Nothing slow about that. I take Newegg reviews with a grain of salt, because some of those people are slow themselves.
February 17, 201115 yr I will be running some speed tests on these drives tonight when I get home. The preclears on the two I have was faster than the WD that were clearing at the same time. I was clearing 4 drives in total at the same time and the Hitachis took 25ish hours. The WD took about an hour or so more.
February 19, 201115 yr How did you buy two ? The $20 off is a one time use, not per drive... so you buy 1 drive, it's $20 off, you buy 2 drives, it's still $20 off so $10 off per drive... Bought two. Hope they work out.
February 19, 201115 yr Likely multiple newegg accounts by using multiple email addresses to sign up for their newsletter.
February 20, 201115 yr I had a credit that expired in a few weeks so I picked up one of these. Hopefully they pack it well.
February 20, 201115 yr How did you buy two ? The $20 off is a one time use, not per drive... so you buy 1 drive, it's $20 off, you buy 2 drives, it's still $20 off so $10 off per drive... Bought two. Hope they work out. When they first posted this deal, the price was $79.99 with a $10 rebate. So I just bought 2. They bumped it to $99.99 with a $20 off coupon on 1 drive. If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago.
February 21, 201115 yr I got 3 of these drives and 1st preclear is done finding 0 errors. Total time was 24:31.
February 21, 201115 yr If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago. That's cheep. I paid $1500 for a 1GB SCSI... a long time ago.
February 21, 201115 yr If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago. That's cheep. I paid $1500 for a 1GB SCSI... a long time ago. You paid that, or your company paid that? I couldn't see a home user paying $1500 for a hard drive.
February 21, 201115 yr If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago. That's cheep. I paid $1500 for a 1GB SCSI... a long time ago. You paid that, or your company paid that? I couldn't see a home user paying $1500 for a hard drive. I paid it. Also paid $1000 for a 1GB IDE hard drive. Micropolis for both. The IDE was recognized as 2 HDs by the system 512MB C drive and a 497MB D drive. Was HUGE when I bought it. 200MB was considered a large HD then.
February 22, 201115 yr My parents bought me a 20MB external SCSI drive in 1987 or 88. Does anyone have any idea what they paid? I need to thank them again.
February 22, 201115 yr If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago. That's cheep. I paid $1500 for a 1GB SCSI... a long time ago. You paid that, or your company paid that? I couldn't see a home user paying $1500 for a hard drive. I would be ashamed to tell you what I paid for my first 5 meg HD! I think it was 1984-85. I try and not think about it. Bruce
February 22, 201115 yr My parents bought me a 20MB external SCSI drive in 1987 or 88. Does anyone have any idea what they paid? I need to thank them again. I am not sure, but I think when they came out they were like $1200 - $1500 or so.
February 24, 201115 yr I got 3 of these drives and 1st preclear is done finding 0 errors. Total time was 24:31. Just wanted to update that all 3 drives passed the preclear test, so things are good so far with these drives (knock on wood).
February 24, 201115 yr Mine passed preclear without issue. Also, had to chime in about the hdd of the past. I bought a 420MB WD drive for $550 when they first came out!
February 25, 201115 yr My two 5K3000 drives passed 3 cycles each of pre_clear without any problems. My single 7K3000 also passed 3 cycles in record time. One of the first hard drives I bought was a 100MB for $995.00. I can't recall the brand. (Did I just reveal my age???)
February 25, 201115 yr Anyone else have reallocated sectors on their 5K3000 drives? I've got 5 already.
February 25, 201115 yr I have 2 that passed 3 preclear cycles each with 0 errors. You may just have a bad egg.
February 25, 201115 yr My two 5K3000 drives passed 3 cycles each of pre_clear without any problems. My single 7K3000 also passed 3 cycles in record time. One of the first hard drives I bought was a 100MB for $995.00. I can't recall the brand. (Did I just reveal my age???) Not really... it was not that long ago. On the other hand, your memory is failing.... or, it could be you just wanted to forget what you paid. Doing the math If 100Meg= $1,000 1000Meg (1Gig) = $10,000 1000Gig (1TB) = $10,000,000 2TB = $20,000,000 Good thing we were not building Multi-Terabyte servers back when you purchased that original drive.
March 19, 201115 yr If it makes you feel better, I paid $500 for 75gb like... a long time ago. That's cheep. I paid $1500 for a 1GB SCSI... a long time ago. You paid that, or your company paid that? I couldn't see a home user paying $1500 for a hard drive. I would be ashamed to tell you what I paid for my first 5 meg HD! I think it was 1984-85. I try and not think about it. Bruce My family's first computer got a SemiDisk 2 meg RAM-Drive around '86 or '87. I think it cost somewhere around $700 from a going out of business/into bankruptcy sale. Had a battery backup that would keep the data safe for up to 6 hours in the event of a power outage. Made that Epson QX-10 wicked-fast. Launched into ValDocs in seconds. Instantly switched between word processing, spreadsheet, drawing, etc. without swapping floppy disks. Looking back, I'm amazed at the concepts behind those products. I didn't see integration like that on another platform until the early 90s when Microsoft started combining their individual apps into a suite. Anyway, off to buy a couple 5k3000 drives. Gotta replace an EARS that's acting up and add more space.
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