New 32 meg cache 750GB Green Power $59.99 shipped

what's the point of having a lot of cache if the drive is slow to begin with? i think i would have preferred 8mb of cache for even more power savings
 
SirKronan said:
Newegg's risky packaging aside, this is a very good deal on a nice drive.
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Also, don't forget to select "Fedex" as a shipping preference, pay the extra money and save yourself some headache. I never ship hard drives through UPS, too many employees handling packages like gorillas at that place.
 
Aptivus said:
Also, don't forget to select "Fedex" as a shipping preference, pay the extra money and save yourself some headache. I never ship hard drives through UPS, too many employees handling packages like gorillas at that place.
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You act like Fedex is better LOL.

Both are the same. The only difference is possibly how good your local center/drivers are. Both are excellent most of the time for me, and I prefer UPS as they dont pull as many shenanigans around here and actually deliver when it gets here instead of waiting for delivery dates.
 
In for one. Really had to snicker at the 4 dollar rush order option too. Didn't that used to be 3 bucks? So you get to waste another whole dollar these days?
 
In for 1, thanks OP!

Also picked up:

Rosewill Micro-ATX Mid-tower. $29.99 + FS
Corsair CMPSU-450VX PSU. $59.99 after $15MIR + FS
XFX 9400GT 1GB passive/fanless $44.09 after - $4.90 (VGASALE10 Coupon) + FS
2x1GB Patriot DDR2 800 ELK $26.99
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 $22.61 after $10MIR

Total ground shipping: $8.94

Gonna be a big box, so I'm sure the HDD is going to have good cushioning. ;)
 
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Gh()st said:
In for 1, thanks OP!

Also picked up:

Rosewill Micro-ATX Mid-tower. $29.99 + FS
Corsair CMPSU-450VX PSU. $59.99 after $15MIR + FS
XFX 9400GT 1GB passive/fanless $44.09 after - $4.90 (VGASALE10 Coupon) + FS
2x1GB Patriot DDR2 800 ELK $26.99
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 $22.61 after $10MIR

Total ground shipping: $8.94

Gonna be a big box, so I'm sure the HDD is going to have good cushioning. ;)
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No guarantees.
 
great price....was just wondering....is it true 32mb cache 7200 performs just as fast as a raptor? also whats difference between caviar green and black...maybe i should just post in the storage forum.
 
Gh()st said:
In for 1, thanks OP!

Gonna be a big box, so I'm sure the HDD is going to have good cushioning. ;)
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Mine came in last week in a big box with all the other stuff I ordered. The HDD was placed on the side/settled on the side of the box. Very little cushioning from the 1 layer of bubble wrap. The drive was DOA and is in the proccess of RMA through WD. Can't say for sure if it was the packaging that killed the drive, but it probably didn't help either.
 
Just wanted to follow-up. Shipment arrived today. They split the shipment up a bit, as the case was sent from their TN location, and everything else came from CA. The CA box did look like the UPS monkeys thought it was made of Samsonite. Nicely dented corners, with 1 long supporting edge fully crushed. (Not a neg against the Egg, as they can't control UPS's ability to actually handle a package.) Upon opening from what was marked as the top, the drive was actually packaged on the bottom of the box, under the PSU. Single wrapping of bubble, so I was not feeling 100% about its status. Once removed it appeared to be in good physical condition, and after running the WD Data Lifegaurd tools against the drive, all appears to be well.

Not sure about the reported 698GB availability after being formatted, though. 52GB of rough loss seems a bit high for drives this large, but after reading some reviews it doesn't seem to be out of the norm. (formatted using the WD tool, and setup as just a flat storage drive)
 
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Gh()st said:
Just wanted to follow-up. Shipment arrived today. They split the shipment up a bit, as the case was sent from their TN location, and everything else came from CA. The CA box did look like the UPS monkeys thought it was made of Samsonite. Nicely dented corners, with 1 long supporting edge fully crushed. (Not a neg against the Egg, as they can't control UPS's ability to actually handle a package.) Upon opening from what was marked as the top, the drive was actually packaged on the bottom of the box, under the PSU. Single wrapping of bubble, so I was not feeling 100% about its status. Once removed it appeared to be in good physical condition, and after running the WD Data Lifegaurd tools against the drive, all appears to be well.

Not sure about the reported 698GB availability after being formatted, though. 52GB of rough loss seems a bit high for drives this large, but after reading some reviews it doesn't seem to be out of the norm. (formatted using the WD tool, and setup as just a flat storage drive)
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It's just the math. You still have about 750,000,000,000 bytes, there's just two ways to divide it down which use the same term. HD manufacturers report a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes while most software reports GB's as 1,073,741,824 bytes. The bigger the drive, the bigger the apparent loss is going to be. However, there really is no lost capacity.

If you want to see approximately what size the OS is going to report for any hard drive, take the size the HD manfacturer reports and multiply it by 0.9313 (if the drive is listed in TB, use 0.9094 instead.)
 
ryan_975 said:
It's just the math. HD manufacturers report GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, Software reports GB's as 1,073,741,824 bytes. You still 750,000,000,000 bytes, there's just two ways to divide it down which use the same term.

If you want to see approximately what size the OS is going to report for any hard drive, take the size the HD manfacturer reports and multiply it by 0.9313 (if the drive is listed in TB, use 0.9094 instead.)
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Just link people here...

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1347640
 
ryan_975 said:
But I don't get to feel like a geek that way.
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After hearing this question for over a dozen years now, I can't be bothered to explain basic math, or feel warn and fuzzy for bothering...

If someone seriously doesn't understand it by now, they shouldn't be buying HDs in the first place...
 
Tolyngee said:
After hearing this question for over a dozen years now, I can't be bothered to explain basic math, or feel warn and fuzzy for bothering...

If someone seriously doesn't understand it by now, they shouldn't be buying HDs in the first place...
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It's kinda hard to understand the basic math when you don't know there's a difference.
 
ryan_975 said:
I hope this is a joke. Cache takes up quite a bit of electricity, even when not being used.
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When operating at CPU core frequency, perhaps, but in the scope of a hard drive, the difference between 16MB and 32MB is probably .01W or less. They get the 'green' power savings primarily from reducing spin speed and speed up times of the platters, with solid state components probably picked as well, but with a dramatically smaller impact.

In for one. Really had to snicker at the 4 dollar rush order option too. Didn't that used to be 3 bucks? So you get to waste another whole dollar these days?
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Has anyone had experiences with this actually helping? I think I 'rushed' my very first order....years ago..... and ever since they have arrived just as quickly, with most shipping same day (they don't if they're ordered after close-of-business though). The last package I got from newegg arrived in 23 hours from ordering..... with free 3 day shipping.
 
Rush is good if you order in the afternoon (PDT) and for sure need it to go out that day. I have only used it a few times but it seems to work well.

Usually as long as I order before 12pm PDT my order will ship same day. Newegg is pretty reliable in that sense and another reason I love them!
 
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