WD6400AAKS $85 Shipped @ Newegg

Cheaper price per GB (13 vs 17) that the 1TB Seagates . However, 2 years less warranty.
 
i really need to get a new hard drive. so tempting. i was planning on holding off 'til this fall/winter.... must resist.
 
I got one to move all the data on my 160 and 120 drives so I can wipe them. Then I'm gonna get a second 2500AAKS and dual boot XP on one drive and Vista on the other, and the 640GB will be storage.
 
I bought this drive yesterday ($90) but with a little chin music I got them to give me 5 bucks back :cool: Gotta love the egg.
 
I got one to move all the data on my 160 and 120 drives so I can wipe them. Then I'm gonna get a second 2500AAKS and dual boot XP on one drive and Vista on the other, and the 640GB will be storage.

Shouldnt you get the 320AAKS over the 250?
 
You do realize that starting sentences with you do realize that make you come off as an asshole, right?

I want both operating systems on identical hard drives. It's okay for people to be different, you know?
 
I was just pointing out that by preferring to keep your OS drives relatively small, you are pointlessly limiting the performance potential of your system.

But, hey, if you want to be "different" by calling people assholes and making your computer slower, be my guest.
 
Hard drives are crippling anyway. The performance difference between a 250 and a 320 isn't significant enough. Price is important for some of us. The 320GB is $15 more, and you don't know if you'll get the single or double platter unit.

It isn't different to call someone an asshole. People do it every second of every day.
 
wow gjsneptune is really hyped on these drives.. take it to heart gjsneptune.. (did you design these drives?) i have 6 or 7 of them not sure if i need any more.. two in raid for os is suggested instead of 250gb

also nice touch with teh cellphone in sig.. maybe ill update my sig with my cellphones and cars hahaha
 
man feels like yesterday when 80gig IDE's were going for this price
 
wow gjsneptune is really hyped on these drives.. take it to heart gjsneptune.. (did you design these drives?) i have 6 or 7 of them not sure if i need any more.. two in raid for os is suggested instead of 250gb

also nice touch with teh cellphone in sig.. maybe ill update my sig with my cellphones and cars hahaha

Hahahahahahahahaha.

I'm so hyped up on these drives that I've managed to turn them into an IV fluid. Only used the 250GB model though. Sorry, guys.
 
The 640GB is faster due to density, even if the 500GB is a two-platter it's only 250GB per platter. Cache doesn't mean anything, raptors have 16MB and it doesn't slow them down, does it? Cache, like video RAM, is only as good as what's driving it.
What exactly is the platter nonsense? I've had the same drives forever now and never really read up on the difference too much. The drive is only for download storage and the occasional burning access thats it. The 640 looks like a better deal I mean 10 bucks for an extra 140gig
 
These drives are great, guys. I've got 5 so far, 2 have yet to be formatted. I'm going to pick up another few still. :)
 
Ordered it couldn't see saving 10 bucks and loosing so much space.
 
Thats kinda crazy. Since when does a format take that much space?

It's not the formatting that does it, it's the marketing. Drives are marketed in billions of bytes, whereas operating systems report drive sizes in multiples of 1024^3 bytes. So take 640, multiply it by 1000^3, and divide the result by 1024^3, and you get 596. BTW, that's the total drive size; formatting takes away further from that number, but the OS still reports the size before formatting. It's been like that for ages, but with such large hard drives, the amount of space "lost" is merely more noticable now.
 
Thats kinda crazy. Since when does a format take that much space?

Formats don't take space. It's that hard drive manufacturers count bytes differently from operating systems.

To Western Digital, 640 GB = 640,000,000,000 bytes. To your OS, 640,000,000,000 bytes is 596.04 GB.

See, to your OS, 1 GB = 1024 MB, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 KB = 1024 B.
To WD, Seagate, etc, 1 GB = 1000 MB, 1 MB = 1000 KB, 1 KB = 1000 B.

To your OS, 1 GB = 2^30 (or 8^10) B.
To the HD manufacturers, 1 GB = 10 ^ 9 B.

It's been this way for many many years.
 
One thing that I also try to take into account is trying to buy the largest hard drives I can that make good economic sense. That way, I don't end up with lots of smaller drives (drawing more power, making more noise/heat, etc). I just bought another 750gb F1 SpinPoint drive from the Egg for $100 shipped.

Still, good deal OP!
 
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