This is a recent price drop.

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB $80 + FS Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?&Item=N82E16822136218
3 year warranty

Now, this may be already posted by I am posting this for comparison here. You get 5 year warranty if you pay 5 bucks more.

Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $85 FS Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148335
5 year warranty

Thanks to Ocean935 for pointing a 750 GB Seagate (with a 2 GB SD card) for $95.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148134&CMP=AFC-C8Junction
5 year warranty

Excellent deal on Cavalry 1TB EXTERNAL : http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/866126

Double post, please ignore.

inphoenix said:Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $85 FS Newegg
750Gb for only $10 more, including FREE Kingston 2Gb SD Card.

I am looking for a PATA HDD 500 or more gigs. If anyone knows of any deals please let me know,

inphoenix said:slickms said:I am looking for a PATA HDD 500 or more gigs. If anyone knows of any deals please let me know,

PATA drives are a little more expensive as most everyone uses SATA. But here is one WD 500 GB for $74.99+shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136111


If you like Seagate here is a 500 GB for $79.99+shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135

J&R has the retail WD 500GB for $85 and $7 shipping. FatCash/Live rebates available. Just saw an ad for the retail Seagate 500GB for $79 B&M Fry's in So Cal but I get taxed
on that!

edit: both of the above are for PATA

You should watch the Outpost (Fry's) ads. They had the Seagate retail PATA 500 gb for 69.99 with free shipping a few weeks ago. In the middle of the sale, they added a limit of one per household. I needed four for a Venus T4U enclosure so I had family and friends buy them for me. I wish I could have gotten a deal on 750 gb.

Watch the specials at Fry's

ocean935 said:750Gb for only $10 more, including FREE Kingston 2Gb SD Card.
That's a nice deal, although it uses 4x 188GB platters. The 640GB models use much denser platters (320GB for the WD and Seagate, 334GB for the Samsung), which gives you better trasnfer rates.

str8flexed said:I would get the Seagate over the WD just for the 32mb cache vs 16. It's debatable whether it makes much of a difference but for $5 more it's a no-brainer imo...
Doesn't make much difference. The Seagate has been benched and provides slightly faster (~8%) transfer rates than the WD. However, access times are significantly worse (~14ms vs. 11.5ms for the WD).
If you wanted an OS drive (like I do), you want the "quicker" (low access time) drive, not the "faster" (higher transfer rate) one.

The Calvary 1TB thread: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/866126

features a WD 1TB GP drive inside, $82.99 after a $50 rebate

drive reference at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151

JazzyfromCO said:The Calvary 1TB thread: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/866126

features a WD 1TB GP drive inside, $82.99 after a $50 rebate

drive reference at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136151

Again, see my post(s) above - you'd want to get a 640GB for the higher platter density if you want performance. If you want a media storage drive, the Calvary is perfect. Despite what WD spews on its site, the 1TB Caviar GP is a 5400rpm (NOT 5400-7200 variable rpm) drive, so it's even slower than the typical 1TB drive. Unless you should be so lucky to get a Samsung 1TB inside (334GB/platter).