PC Peripherals Good deal??

[Vandal]

http://www.excaliberpc.com/Hitachi_...722516DLA380_0A31637_/partinfo-id-553782.html

Is this any good? btw These guys ship to India or so I have been lead to believe.. Any1 used their services? How are they? comments...

 

[Rave]

a new 250 Gig SATA 2 costs 5.5k i believe, much better deal than this one

 

[Blade_Runner]

They ship to india alright but 100$ for shipping. that would be almost the price of another drive. Better get the drive here itself. I am using 2 x 250Gb hitachi and touch wood so far. The performance is also satisfactory.

 

[Anish]

Just bought a Hitachi 250GB SATA-II for 5.3k last week.

Not installed it yet, but comes with 5 years Indian warranty and well built too..

 

[delhiboy1000]

^^ hitachi comes wid 3 or 5yr warranty??

 

[Aditya]

Five Year IIRC.

Excaliber sucks.

Their rates are usually higher. And Shipping costs are through the roof.

 

[Harshal]

Have it since last Oct... and doing good so far. Shipping might be on higher side.

 

[Vandal]

They ship to india alright but 100$ for shipping. that would be almost the price of another drive. Better get the drive here itself. I am using 2 x 250Gb hitachi and touch wood so far. The performance is also satisfactory.

OKe Now point me to a shop where I can actually pick one of these up...

btw cannot decide between a 250 GB Hitachi T7K and a WD 250gig caviar 16MB cache...
help decide please...
Also is the maxtor DM 10 worth a mention here?

 

[Sandy]

seagate 250GB sata for 4.8k isnt that better?

 

[Vandal]

seagate 250GB sata for 4.8k isnt that better?

dont' trust seagate much...unless proven otherwise

 

[Blade_Runner]

OKe Now point me to a shop where I can actually pick one of these up...

btw cannot decide between a 250 GB Hitachi T7K and a WD 250gig caviar 16MB cache...
help decide please...
Also is the maxtor DM 10 worth a mention here?

Check out prime/comp selection/pc guide @ lamington road.

 

[Switch]

Got hitachi for 5K yesterday... And seagate is not Sata 2

 

[Sandy]

Got hitachi for 5K yesterday... And seagate is not Sata 2

any other difference? more cache memory:S :huh:

 

[Darklord]

@ Switch,

SATA II hasnt shown any substantial advantage over SATA.

 

[Sandy]

^^ any other difference between them? :s

 

[Aditya]

Well, SATA 2 uses upto 3.0gbps in bandwitdh. Max. Ofcourse, your drive has to support it.

While SATA allows max 150mBps

Thats to only notable diff.

 

[Anish]

Well Hitachi has 8MB buffer, WD has 16MB..

I trust Hitachi reliability a bit more and WD is about 0.7k cheaper..

@ Vandal - I think Delta should have it in stock.

 

[hunt3r]

Afaik, SATA I has max 150 MB/s and SATA II has 300. But when ur hard disk is not goin beyond 60 MB/s( 80 if u have a raptor) it dosent really make a difference. I dont know the specifics but i dont think there are any other notable differences.

 

[Vandal]

Well Hitachi has 8MB buffer, WD has 16MB..

I trust Hitachi reliability a bit more and WD is about 0.7k cheaper..

@ Vandal - I think Delta should have it in stock.

Cool sadly I am no longer in Chennai...could get my old buddy deepa..oops saiyan to help me... And well Chennai is way..way cheaper than Mumbai or Delhi. hyeah: