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Bronze Home Brew badge Proximon   10-12-2009 at 11:27:59 AM

I just saw this deal on newegg...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.273732

That's 100 bucks for a CM 690 case (very nice case) and a Caviar Black 640GB
That has to be a mistake. Might want to grab one today.... now... before they figure it out.

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my guess is that WD is quietly refreshing their Caviar Black lineup to utilize 500GB platters like their 2TB Caviar Black that was recently announced. Newegg is probably trying to move inventory of 640GB models since they won't sell well when better performing Caviar Blacks become available. As it is now the Caviar Black 640 isn't a bad drive, but the Samsung F3 and 7200.12s from Seagate beat them out in most benchmarks.

Still, it is a good combo for those able to jump on it now.
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Bronze Home Brew badge wathman   10-12-2009 at 03:01:01 PM
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my guess is that WD is quietly refreshing their Caviar Black lineup to utilize 500GB platters like their 2TB Caviar Black that was recently announced. Newegg is probably trying to move inventory of 640GB models since they won't sell well when better performing Caviar Blacks become available. As it is now the Caviar Black 640 isn't a bad drive, but the Samsung F3 and 7200.12s from Seagate beat them out in most benchmarks.

Still, it is a good combo for those able to jump on it now.

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OvrClkr   10-12-2009 at 04:27:10 PM

Bahh, the 640 has been selling like hotcakes since it came out.... The 640 is superior to the F3 and ANY 7200RPM drive that Seagate has to offer. Do you have a chart that will say otherwise?

IMO the reason why Newegg has such a deal has nothing to do with WD, the egg will post these kind of deals every now n then just to catch everyones attention and make sure they buy off the egg and not from another e-tailor.... This is not the first time the egg posts such a deal. I remember when they had a 940+790x for 199.99, basically you got the mobo for free and that combo lasted for 2 days till they sold out.....

I have benched and compared the 640 vs. a Raptor WD1500ADFD and to my surprise the 640 came out on top. This cannot be done by any other 7,200 RPM drive.

Minimum Transfer Rate:
WD6401AALS: 57.2 MB/s
WD1500ADFD: 53.9 MB/s

Maximum Transfer Rate:
WD6401AALS: 114.7 MB/s
WD1500ADFD: 85.3 MB/s

Average Transfer Rate:
WD6401AALS: 95.0 MB/s
WD1500ADFD: 73.8 MB/s

Burst Transfer Rate:
WD6401AALS: 122.7 MB/s
WD1500ADFD: 107.4 MB/s






Message edited by OvrClkr on 10-12-2009 at 04:43:29 PM
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Bronze Home Brew badge wathman   10-12-2009 at 05:04:29 PM

Look at the Tom's Hardware benchmarks for 2009 and you'll see that only the new 2TB Caviar Black is in the top tier of performance drives currently. The 640GB Caviar Black was top in performance when it came out last year, but it's still based on a 2x 320GB platter design. Higher platter density is what leads to better performance.

 

Tom's Hardware - Benchmark Streaming Read Operations

 

The Tom's chart doesn't have a 640GB benchmark in their database, but the 1000GB Caviar Black has similar performance to the 640GB.

 

As for beating Raptors, this has been the case for most 7200RPM drives that have been released this year.

 

Edit: fixed chart link


Message edited by wathman on 10-12-2009 at 05:17:27 PM
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Bronze Home Brew badge Proximon   10-12-2009 at 11:04:44 PM

I had to get the deal, and I don't even need a new case... someone will want it I'm sure.

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OvrClkr   10-12-2009 at 11:11:42 PM

lol..... yea that combo is too good to let go..... if I had the cash to burn I would have that in my basket =)

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Silver Home Brew badge hunter315   10-13-2009 at 12:06:01 AM

Wow! And its not even an 11 series seagate. Somethings got to be going on with hard drives, they were sold out of F3s yesterday, and now there are massive deals on good hard drives. Im not usually surprised when i see massive deals with seagate drives but they are almost always 11 series drives, a free 1TB 7200.12 drive is surprising.

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LATTEH   10-13-2009 at 03:07:01 AM

DAMN! i wish i had the 100 bucks....

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Bronze Home Brew badge Proximon   10-13-2009 at 08:52:18 AM

I'm looking forward to retiring the old 320 AAKS to secondary status and moving the even older 160 AAJS to the portable drive :p

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