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post #21 of 31
5/5/05 at 2:37am
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Originally Posted by Proud9300_OZie
One of our fellow members bought an 80GB 7200 Seagate Mercury via eBay.com last week but I can't find anything to show that 5 x 100 7200RPM Seagate Mercury drives had been sold only a week before that on eBay apparently.

So they are out there

I wonder what the minimum number would be for Seagate to sell them as OEM to a person 100 or 1000 perhaps.

Heck I don't think it would be too hard to sell them and if you were being kind (to the community of users out there) you could sell them with only a small markup to cover costs etc and a small profit (10% ?), so perhaps it might be worth looking into.

Any thoughts on the matter. perhaps we should all get together and approach Seagate.....
NO WAY..seagate is just pissing me off damn it. i refuse to buy one from them now. i'll just wait for another company to make it.

ok, so i'll probably just quietly buy it
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post #22 of 31
5/5/05 at 7:43am
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Originally Posted by Proud9300_OZie
I wonder what the minimum number would be for Seagate to sell them as OEM to a person 100 or 1000 perhaps.
Probably not less than 10,000 units.
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post #23 of 31
5/6/05 at 7:17pm
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OK guys, I have some hot news for you!

I just bought the Seagate 80GB 7200rpm hard drive (ST980825A) for $200 from ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

The seller seems to be very reliable and seems to have a good connection to Seagate since he also sold the 100gb version a week ago:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6763099175

I asked him if he had some more of these bad guys but he said that the 80gb version was the only 7200 model, "maybe later". So I decided to go with the 80gb baby. I'm so excited!!
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post #24 of 31
5/6/05 at 9:28pm
huh, let us know how it turns out. I'm going to wait awhile, at least till the 100gigs are more affordable and maybe the 120s, as I just got my 60 and an 80 would be a silly upgrade in my mind for me.

Tellerve
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post #25 of 31
5/7/05 at 12:19pm
man, those are ridiculous prices.
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post #26 of 31
5/7/05 at 1:34pm
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Billy, I agree, it's a lot of money considering the fact that you get a 5400rpm 80gb drive for under $150. But I think you know what I'm talking about when I say that we're all crazy about our lappies.
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post #27 of 31
5/7/05 at 4:32pm
yeah, that's true, otherwise i wouldn't have bought 2GB ram for my laptop. but i still believe that 100GB will be had for around $160-$170 shortly after they come out.
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post #28 of 31
5/11/05 at 3:16am
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Ladies and gentlemen, I got my new hard drive

Seagate Momentus 7200.1 ST980825A 80gb@7200rpm for my Dell 700m. Just formatted it and installed a clean fresh Windows XP system with all the latest drivers. First impressions: Everything is faster - maybe because of the re-install. Downloaded Sandra2005 and tested the drive:




KABOOOOOM!!! This drive is freakin' FAST! And the best thing: It is also deadly silent! No clicking (got used to it with my Hitachi), no buzzing. WOW! I'm impressed. Let's see how it will behave in everyday life...
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post #29 of 31
5/11/05 at 11:37am
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Oooh, by the way:

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/sit...824a0eac4f0a0/


The 7K100 is listed... I knew it
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post #30 of 31
5/11/05 at 12:36pm
It's amazing what people will do/pay to have the latest and greatest, even though the performance difference between a 5400 and 7200 will probably be unnoticeable in normal applications outside of benchmark results.
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post #31 of 31
5/11/05 at 3:10pm
Thread Starter 
Well, yeoman, the performance difference is noticeable even when doing general things like startup, copying files, dealing with a large amount of data, installing software etc. The general response time after executing an application seems to be faster, too.

Personally, I needed the faster speed since I do a lot of video capturing and editing. So I was willing to pay +$50 over the standard price of a 80gb drive with 5400rpm to get a guy with 7200rpm. I'm not dying to have the latest and best. I am just enthusiastic about it and I love to share my joy with other people...
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