[Thinkpad] HD Recommendation -- Hitachi TravelStar?

[Canyonlands Computer Raypair]

Your decision may be an easy one.

Seagate drives have a five-year warranty. None others have more than three
year warranties.

At ZipZoomFly, my favorite reseller, shipping remains free.

You can buy the following Seagates at www.ZipZoomFly.com:

40 GB          $55.60
60 GB          $59.43
80 GB          $97.50
100 GB        $96.49
120 GB        $95.40

Prices are also quite competitive at www.directron.com but they charge for
shipping.


We use these two vendors for most of our tech purchased. They are both fast,
thorough, and low priced (so far).  I expect there are a lot of others not
named NewEgg which have similar deals.


RayBay

On 4/12/07, Tim Semen <tsservo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm.  Didn't catch the 4200rpm detail...  Still would have worked fine
> for
> my backups purpose, but I think I'd shy away from using it as the primary
> drive.
>
> There are 250gb 5400rpm drives out there, Dell and Alienware just started
> using them.  But one presumes they're over the OP's budget.  :)
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Wiseman [mailto:thinkpad at sus2.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:13 AM
> To: Tim Semen; Thinkpad Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] HD Recommendation -- Hitachi TravelStar?
>
> Tim Semen wrote:
> > I've been spinning the 120gb version of the Samsung Spinpoint M series
>
>
> That's the drive I've had in my X32 for a year and a half now. Great
> performance and very quiet - much more so than the Hitachi originally in
> it.
> I'd definitely recommend it to the OP and anyone else.
>
>
>
> > Though checking out prices on Newegg depressed me as I found I could
> > now get a 200gb for less than I paid for my 120 less than a year ago.
> > But that's the way it goes, eh?
>
>
> Yeah, that Samsung (HM120JC) can now be had for $74.16 shipped from eWiz
> http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=SM-HM120JC where I bought it at twice
> that
> price back then. For some reason Newegg lists a 1-year warranty on the
> Samsung drives, but I think they're wrong. I know mine has a 3-year
> warranty, as I'm pretty sure all the Samsung Spinpoints do. Samsung is
> 3-years and Seagate is 5-years, which IMO gives them the edge in 2.5" HD
> options.
>
> As for the 200GB 2.5" drives, are they available yet in 5400rpm? I've only
> seen the 4200rpm.
>
>
>
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