Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
of rebates.

Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

"John McGaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
> drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box drives
> on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort of price
> before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February 15th. Oh,
> yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort of rebates.
>
>

Looks like a good deal...
I just purchased a 300 gig Seagate IDE drive for a machine I'm working on.
(as i was tracking the order on-line the doorbell rang with the delivery)
I paid $200 from Newegg...
just needed one fast to replace his 200gig drive which is failing...

it only seems like yesterday that i got an awed and scared feeling from
working
with a 2 gig drive!!!! how large it seemed at the time !

philo wrote:
> "John McGaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
>>drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box drives
>>on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort of price
>>before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February 15th. Oh,
>>yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort of rebates.
>>
>>
>
>
> Looks like a good deal...
> I just purchased a 300 gig Seagate IDE drive for a machine I'm working on.
> (as i was tracking the order on-line the doorbell rang with the delivery)
> I paid $200 from Newegg...
> just needed one fast to replace his 200gig drive which is failing...
>
> it only seems like yesterday that i got an awed and scared feeling from
> working
> with a 2 gig drive!!!! how large it seemed at the time !
>
>
$200. Whew! I bought a PATA Seagate 200gB in December, also from
Outpost.com the last time they had another of their stealth rebate
campaigns. Price came out to something like $80 after the rebate
(haven't received the rebate check yet but they did acknowledge receipt
of the paperwork). These sales that they sneak in seem to be very good
if one can synchorize needs with sale dates with budget but unless one
is actively checking for them they can slip past unnoticed. And assuming
that Fry's manages to keep their servers working properly for the
duration of the searching/ordering process of course...

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

"John McGaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3TaPd.7928$(E-Mail Removed)...
> philo wrote:
>> "John McGaw" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
>>>drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
>>>drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort of
>>>price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February 15th.
>>>Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort of
>>>rebates.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like a good deal...
>> I just purchased a 300 gig Seagate IDE drive for a machine I'm working
>> on.
>> (as i was tracking the order on-line the doorbell rang with the delivery)
>> I paid $200 from Newegg...
>> just needed one fast to replace his 200gig drive which is failing...
>>
>> it only seems like yesterday that i got an awed and scared feeling from
>> working
>> with a 2 gig drive!!!! how large it seemed at the time !
> $200. Whew! I bought a PATA Seagate 200gB in December, also from
> Outpost.com the last time they had another of their stealth rebate
> campaigns. Price came out to something like $80 after the rebate (haven't
> received the rebate check yet but they did acknowledge receipt of the
> paperwork). These sales that they sneak in seem to be very good if one can
> synchorize needs with sale dates with budget but unless one is actively
> checking for them they can slip past unnoticed. And assuming that Fry's
> manages to keep their servers working properly for the duration of the
> searching/ordering process of course...
>

well i just checked their website for the same drive i bought
and it was $20 cheaper...not a big savings...but it looks like a good place
for
harddrives next time i need one

In article <lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
> drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
> drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
> of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
> 15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
> of rebates.
>
> Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
>


There's a reason outpost.com stuff is so cheap...

theyak wrote:
> In article <lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> says...
>
>>Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
>>drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
>>drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
>>of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
>>15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
>>of rebates.
>>
>>Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
>>
>
>
>
> There's a reason outpost.com stuff is so cheap...

And that reason is? I've ordered from them possibly six times over the
past few years. Every time the products were as advertised, were
delivered in a few days, and worked perfectly. I wish I could say the
same about some other online/catalog companies I've dealt with. I've had
more problems (one to be exact) with orders from newegg.com than I've
had with outpost.com.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

John McGaw wrote:

> Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
> drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
> drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
> of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
> 15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
> of rebates.

Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you
will forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an
error and everything will be lost.

Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files
on them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info?
You will have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!

"William W. Plummer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newspednWKy9bQQwJDfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> John McGaw wrote:
>
>> Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
>> drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
>> drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort of
>> price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February 15th.
>> Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort of
>> rebates.
>
> Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you will
> forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an error
> and everything will be lost.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files on
> them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info? You will
> have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!


the guy who's machine i just worked on is a professional photographer...
and he's got about 500gigs of photos . they are all done in photoshop
and have up to 100 layers...so are quite large in size.

he usually keeps the originals on dvd's but no matter how many times i tell
him to backup everything...i just don't think he's ever going to burn 100 or
more
dvd's...
as long as he's got the original photo backed up...he could at least
recreate his work if he really had to...
thus far i;ve been able to save his data before he's had a total harddrive
failure...
but thar hardly means i will be able to save his stuff every time...

anyway...i agree... burn dvd's for everything
now convince him to do that !

William W. Plummer wrote:
> John McGaw wrote:
>
>> Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
>> drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
>> drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
>> of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
>> 15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same
>> sort of rebates.
>
>
> Why do you want a disk that big? It will just accumulate stuff, you
> will forget what most of it is, and then one day, the disk will get an
> error and everything will be lost.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to burn CDs or DVDs with all the treasured files
> on them and stick to a small, say 50GB, drive for the volatile info? You
> will have less to back up, assuming that back up actually works!

Is smaller better? I've probably got some sub-1gB full-height SCSI
drives hanging around in the junkbox if you'd care to bid on them ;-)

Actually, as soon as one starts messing around with editing large media
files the motivation toward larger drives is pretty immediate. So when I
saw an opportunity to replace the present 160gB drive with one nearly
twice as large I didn't stop to think about it for too long. Having the
extra space will allow me to think less about swapping files in and out
so that when motivation strikes me I can just get started rather than
digging around for my materials. Oh, and I do keep verified backups of
everything both on CD/DVD-ROM and on my file-server (an old machine in
the basement that will soon be gaining a relatively new 160gB drive).

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

In article <b0cPd.7959$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...
> theyak wrote:
> > In article <lS9Pd.7900$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
> > says...
> >
> >>Just stumbled across this and it looks to be a good price for a good
> >>drive. Outpost.com has Seagate 300gB SATA ST3300831AS-RK retail box
> >>drives on sale for $169.99 after a $40 rebate. I've not seen this sort
> >>of price before even for loose OEM drives. Rebate expires on February
> >>15th. Oh, yeah, they have a few other Seagate drives with the same sort
> >>of rebates.
> >>
> >>Disclaimer: not affiliated, etc...
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > There's a reason outpost.com stuff is so cheap...
>
> And that reason is? I've ordered from them possibly six times over the
> past few years. Every time the products were as advertised, were
> delivered in a few days, and worked perfectly. I wish I could say the
> same about some other online/catalog companies I've dealt with. I've had
> more problems (one to be exact) with orders from newegg.com than I've
> had with outpost.com.
>


Fry's happily take your returns of defective merchandise and then put
them right back on the shelf. Outpost = Fry's.