Price Guide, December 2005: Storage
by Haider Farhan on December 17, 2005 2:31 PM EST- Posted in
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SCSI
On to the SCSI drives, the Seagate Ultra320 146GB 10000RPM 8MB Cheetah 10K.6 (80-pin) [RTPE: ST3146807LC] has seen a price reduction of $30, bringing the total cost down to about $440, the cheapest price we have ever seen this drive go for.
Seagate Ultra320 146GB 10000RPM 8MB
Cheetah 10K.6 80-pin
We are seeing a few drives have significantly gone up in price, anywhere between an increase of $110 to $130. But who ever said that SCSI drives don't come at a premium?
Currently only marketed by two manufacturers, Maxtor and Seagate, SAS drives have decreased in price and are slowly nearing the price range of the Ultra 320 drives.
Regarding these SAS drives, your best deal is to go with either the Maxtor 73.5GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D073S0] going for $225 or the Maxtor 147GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D147S0] on sale for about $430.
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redknightrg - Sunday, December 18, 2005 - link
I don't know when WD made this drive available, but its a SATA II drive with NCQ and a 16mb cache, with 106mb platters instead of the old 80s WD used in previous drives.Here's a newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...">link.
Has this drive just not had time to show up on your RTPE yet?
I already bought one, so maybe I'll tell you how it goes... ;-)
quasarsky - Sunday, December 18, 2005 - link
I think seagate drives are the bomb diggy. Ok I'll stop being silly now lol. I got a 400 gig one, 7200.8, for $91 cause I ordered a 250 gig 7200.8 sata for $91 shipped refurbished but a 400 is what they sent me, which is good cause thats what I really wanted lol. Oh well. It'll be awhile yet if ever those 400 gig drives drop to that price, let alone 500 gig drives :)oh btw my first post ever :-D