home : hot deals & information involving: Seagate Tuesday, August 19, 2008last update: 1:30pm (EDT)
ZipZoomFly.com
- Seagate 1TB Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $140
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB (1000GB) Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $140 with free shipping.
A great deal at $0.14/GB, includes a 5 year manufacturer's warranty (most other drives come with 3 years), and it has pretty good reviews.
Most other stores sell 1TB drives for $170 to $200.
ZipZoomFly's ground shipping typically takes 5 business days to arrive to the Eastern half of the US.
Dell.com
- HOT!
- 1TB Serial-ATA Hard Drive $110 (expired: 8/17)
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB (1000GB) Serial-ATA 32MB-Cache Hard Drive is on sale for $110 with free shipping ($0.11 per GB).
During checkout, if you select a credit card as the payment method, then click the text which offers a 4% discount if you use a Dell Preferred Account (Dell's own credit card), the price goes down to $105.60.
You should pay off the balance quickly to avoid hefty finance charges, but saving only $4.40 may not be worth the hassle of dealing with another credit card.
ZipZoomFly.com
- Seagate 1TB Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $150
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB (1000GB) Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $150 with free shipping.
It includes a 5 year manufacturer's warranty (most other drives come with 3 years), and it has pretty good reviews.
Most other stores sell 1TB drives for $170 to $200.
ZipZoomFly's ground shipping orders typically take 5 business days to arrive to the Eastern half of the US.
Newegg.com
- 640GB Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $85
Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB Serial-ATA Hard Drive just dropped to $85 when using coupon EMCAHCFAD with free shipping.
That's a $5 pricedrop in the last 2 weeks, and $25 less than the price it was during the beginning of June.
It's not just a great deal at a cost of $0.13 per GB, but is rated as one of the quietest, coolest operating, best performing hard drives priced under $100.
It has hundreds of positive reviews, some of the highest ratings we have seen lately for a large capacity hard drive priced this low.
Code is limited to one drive per account.
The above drive is our recommendation for someone looking for performance and overall the best value.
If you are looking for another kind of drive, here are some other very good promos available:
If noise is a concern, Seagate may not be the best choice despite their generous 5 year warranty.
Seagate drives can become noisy when doing lots of simultaneous tasks like when used as a primary/bootup (C:) drive, but do operate nearly silent when playing movies & music, when idle, and when used with a BlacX docking station.
Frys.com
- 1TB internal hard drive for $170 (expired: sold out)
Seagate 1TB (1000GB) internal Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $170 with free shipping.
Includes a Serial-ATA cable and a 5 year warranty.
BestBuy.com
- 1TB Serial-ATA Hard Drive $180
Seagate 1TB (1000GB) internal Serial-ATA hard drive for $180 with free shipping.
Includes a Serial-ATA cable, power adapter, and a 5 year warranty.
Most other stores sell just the drive for around $220. Update (7/1):
Shipping no longer free.
ZipZoomFly.com
- 120GB Portable USB Hard Drive $62 (expired: sold out)
Seagate FreeAgent Go 120GB Portable USB Hard Drive for $55 plus about $7 shipping.
It has pretty good reviews, and most other stores sell it for over $80.
ZipZoomFly.com
- 500GB Serial-ATA Hard Drive for $77 or $78
Back in stock again is a
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB internal Serial-ATA hard drive with 16MB Cache and 5 year warranty for $70.
Add $7 to $8 for ground shipping for one, and about $1 shipping each additional, so:
one for about $77 after shipping fee ($0.155 per GB), or
two for about $148 after shipping fee ($0.148 per GB), etc.
Most other stores sell 500GB drives for $85 to $110.
If you live in the Central or Eastern half of the US, 2-day shipping costs only about $1 or $2 more when buying these drives.
ZipZoomFly orders can take about 6 business days to arrive to the Eastern half of the US, so it may be worth the 2-day shipping upgrade.
Note, this hard drive is noticeably louder than most other manufacturer's drives.
If noise is a concern, look for another manufacturer's drive.
It comes as a bare drive only, without any cables.
An internal Serial-ATA cable is $0.73.
If your computer is not Serial-ATA drive ready, a Serial-ATA cable with Molex-to-SATA Power Adapter is $1.35, if needed.
Shipping adds about $0.50 if you add one of these to an order with a hard drive.
Newegg.com
- 750GB Serial-ATA hard drive for $110
Seagate 750GB internal Serial-ATA hard drive for $110 with free shipping.
Seagate drives operate louder than most other hard drive brands and its 16MB of cache is half of most other 750GB drives, but it does have a 5 year warranty, and is an incredible deal at under $0.15 per GB.