you liked it at $100...

[jims69camaro]

you're gonna love it (http://www.woot.com/) at $50.

what is it?
CONDITION: Factory Recertified
PRODUCT:1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB HDD
price: $49.99

[shane27]

bought

[GP99GT]

purchased also

[jims69camaro]

my bad, the other one was for 1TB, this one's just 1/2 TB... but this is a helluva steal for $50.

[rscamaro73]

Checked some comments before I got one....too many saying not to get recert'd HDD's. Especially Seagates.

One guy found some on ebay NEW for $60.

YMMV....hope no one loses anything....

[Knipps]

someone said 65 on newegg w/ 5 year warranty. I'll wait.

[Tru2Chevy]

Yea, even at only $50, I'll pass on any sort of "used" hard drive. They are so inexpensive that it's not worth cheaping out when buying one.

- Justin

[qwikz28]

bought one. and a case from amazon. woot!

[Tru2Chevy]

To those that bought them....make sure you keep backups ;)

And Knipps - Newegg doesn't have that exact drive, but they do have another 500GB / 32mb buffer / SATA 3.0Gb/s for 69.99 and free shipping with a 5yr warranty from Seagate (far better than the 180 day warranty of the refurb on woot)

- Justin

[shane27]

To those that bought them....make sure you keep backups ;)


- Justin
to me, its hit or miss with a HD. i have a backup drive, this drive will be for videogames, movie, and media...lets just see how long it takes to fill up, and for 15 bucks cheaper...ill take it, especally when its seagate. :nod:

[jims69camaro]

tiger direct has new 1.5TB drives for $150... it's funny how all of a sudden everyone is pushing disk drives.

[Knipps]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136299

140 for a TB external.. hmm

[qwikz28]

how long does woot usually take to ship?

[GP99GT]

i dunno but i didnt get mine yet either

[qwikz28]

just got a tracking number. i never had an external so i'm excited to get to download movies and back up my docs and such :)

[jims69camaro]

back up my docs and such :)

something you should have been doing all along... a catastrophic failure doesn't happen very often but when it does, and there is no backup, you've got a serious problem.

thankfully, i have an off-site backup. ;) but it is still a pain to download all over again.

[GP99GT]

i got mine today, shipped from texas, thats why it took a while i guess

[Tru2Chevy]

woot usually ships 5-7 business days after the day the item is on sale. Sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little shorter. I ordered a digicam for my sister on 11/3 (day after the HDD) and I'll have it tomorrow.

- Justin

[qwikz28]

something you should have been doing all along... a catastrophic failure doesn't happen very often but when it does, and there is no backup, you've got a serious problem.

thankfully, i have an off-site backup. ;) but it is still a pain to download all over again.

happened fall semester 2006. i was soooo pissed. managed to get the information back after hours of working on teh laptop and submitted the work :) it'll be done this week though.

[jims69camaro]

computers have become so reliable that people don't even think that the hard drive can and will go bad. i started out with a dual floppy IBM-pc, so i know all about catastrophic failures and the blue screen of death. and i watched it progress from having to load all of the data via floppy to having dual density floppies (5.25"), then to having a 10MB hdd (yay! you have mail! yay!) with a 5.25" drive and a 3.5" drive... until today where i have unknown number of games and videos and photos and songs and... you get the idea.

it sure has come a long way, but it is still far from infallible.

[qwikz28]

I give up. How do I get this thing to work? I installed it into the box and plugged it in but its not showing up on my computer. The computer is reading it cause its on the disk drive list in the device manager but I can't open it up unless I can get it to show up on my computer.

[Tru2Chevy]

You have to format it....

- Justin

[qwikz28]

according to google i need to plug it into a motherboard to do that. thats tough though cause i have a laptop. i guess it will have to wait till i get home this weekend

[Knipps]

If you can access it from your laptop you can format it from your laptop

[Saitin]

the drive should have come with a disk

[qwikz28]

If you can access it from your laptop you can format it from your laptop
i have no idea how to though.
the drive should have come with a disk

it did and it was utterly useless as it was designed for windows 98

[Saitin]

go into your bios and if you can see it in there you should have the option of formatting it.\
or try this with the hard drive connected.
right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

[Tru2Chevy]

right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

This should work for you....

- Justin

[qwikz28]

go into your bios and if you can see it in there you should have the option of formatting it.\
or try this with the hard drive connected.
right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

thank you!!!!!!! i have vista so its slightly different but i gathered enough context clues to figure it out from what you said. thanks again man. i really wanted to back up all my application material ASAP. its formatting now. its gonna take a while, 3% in 15 minutes...

[Tru2Chevy]

Ahh....you should have just done a quick format.

- Justin

[qwikz28]

Ahh....you should have just done a quick format.

- Justin

ended up having to cancel it. i'll try a quick format now

[Saitin]

glad it helped in some way let me know if you have any other problems.