Found this thought it was a good deal for brand new 500GB hard drive delivered.
Seller is a registered business seller with excellent reputation.
Perfect for PVR's
NOTE: This is a 3.5" drive not a 2.5" drive so is no use for laptops but can be used in PC's.
BRAND NEW SEAGATE PIPELINE HD 500-GB HARD DRIVE
Full 12-Month Warranty Included
These hard drives are the exact same hard drives used by Sky in their Amstrad DRX890 & Samsung 500 HDSKY Sky+HD boxes.
The Seagate 500GB hard drive you are buying here has been removed from a brand new Sky+HD box by us, we take them out when we do our 1000GB conversions. The boxes have never been turned on so you can rest assured the drives are brand new, never used items.
Hard Drive Overview
DVR and media center applications
Entry-level surveillance DVR (SDVR) systems
Low power appliances and devices
Home theater PC
IPTV
Multimedia hard drive recorders
Karaoke and audio jukeboxes
Key Features & Benefits
Sweet spot capacities points of 160GB, 250GB 320GB, 500GB and 1TB, meet the needs of entry level systems as well as high definition media center applications
Tuned to balance high-performance with low power consumption, Pipeline HD drives can support a minimum of 10 simultaneous streams of HD content
Eco-friendly, best in class power performance is easy on the environment while also enabling strict energy conservation programs such as Energy Star
Seagate Soft Sonic™ motor technology enables years of ultra-quiet, worry free operation with acoustic performance as low as 1.9bels
Designed for cool, quiet, worry free, 24x7 operations 365 days a year. Always on, always reliable
Seagate Think Green certified, Pipeline HD drives are more than green - with improved reliability, low power consumption, leading recycling programs, RoHS compliance, PVC free and available and low- halogen designs
Specifications
Model Number: ST3500312CS
Interface: SATA 3Gb/s
Cache: 8MB
Capacity: 500GB
Guaranteed Sectors: 976,773,168
Height: 20.20mm (0.795 in)
Width: 101.85mm (4.010 in)
Length: 146.99mm (5.787 in)
Weight (typical): 420g (0.926 lb)
Random read seek time: <14.0ms
Random write seek time: <15.0ms
Annual Failure Rate: 0.55%
Maximum start current, DC: 2.0
All of the above information and more can be found by following the link below.
Ive got one ov theese hard drives ive juat took out a sky box seagate .. pipeline HD.2 500GB ARE THEY WORTH ANYTHING
pcpaulh
22 Jan 11#30
Still waiting. Emailed, no reply. I've opened a case with eBay/paypal.
Deano467
19 Jan 11#29
Mine arrived next day, new as described
pcpaulh
18 Jan 11#27
Anyone else received theirs? Still waiting on mine.
Aeth to pcpaulh
19 Jan 11#28
Same here, still waiting on mine.
koalauk
14 Jan 11#26
Arrived today, installed today, it is new and no problems :smiley: very quiet drive
jaysonic
12 Jan 11#25
Listing Ended
zackarious
11 Jan 11#24
I bought 2 for my Q6600 tower. :smile:
zackarious
11 Jan 11#23
I have submitted better deals than this including the i7 950 Processor for £150 to that was on Ebay but my submissions were denied because they werent recognised shops by hotukdeals, eventho they were Ebay power sellers! Annoying!!!
Azimuth
11 Jan 11#22
These converters do work - I know this as I converted my Humax 9200T to a SATA drive. About £2 each from China.
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Horrorwood
11 Jan 11#15
is this really an ebay outlet store?
simplyjimbo to Horrorwood
11 Jan 11#18
I wouldn't say so, VAT reg'd one man band with very few items to offer
tincaman
11 Jan 11#16
Be aware that these drives spin at 5900rpm and not 7200rpm as is pretty standard these days, so will be slightly slower. They are designed to run 24/7 so run cool and quiet
koalauk to tincaman
11 Jan 11#17
It will be absolutely FINE running it as an additional HDD to store films and pictures :smiley:
koalauk
11 Jan 11#14
excellent heat added and 1 ordered for the HTPC
Deano467
11 Jan 11#13
16 sold since I posted, who is going to get the last one?
Alloneword
11 Jan 11#12
I used this drive to upgrade the 9200T from 160GB to 500GB a while and not a single issue just so long as you get this drive and the right converter this is the one that was suggested to me at hummy.org http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=73288 and it works fine, only drives left now
All1
brett1985
11 Jan 11#11
This is probably the cheapest way to get a 500gb Hard Drive but price per gb is high and there are a lot of hard drives which will have a 3 year guarantee for not much more.
Fildo Stronst
11 Jan 11#10
Be careful - not all brands of converter work in PVR applications.
I used the 320GB version of this SATA drive to replace the 250GB PATA drive in my Topfield TF5800 a year ago and it's been excellent - no noise and runs a lot cooler.
But before I bought it I checked on the http://www.toppy.org.uk forums to find out what was involved, and there were lots of posts about problems with SATA to PATA converters - it seemed that only a couple of different chipsets were suitable.
I ended up buying a Startech one from Kikatech - works fine, but check the forums first - I did mine a year ago (a year and a week to be exact!).
:man:
SUREFIRE247
11 Jan 11#9
Check this for a cheap power lead converter old style to new :
I did a lot of research before upgrading the drive in my Hummy, it seems it's pretty fussy about the drive you put in, and ive heard a lot of problems with people who've used sata/ide convertors with blocking and noise and the drive not being detected when the box is turned on, plus missed recordings...
you can buy PATA HDDs from humaxdirect.co.uk and rest assured they will work, it is however more expensive than shopping around...
Still a good price for a 500GB HDD though.
Deano467
11 Jan 112#5
You can buy ide/sata converters so you can fit newer more efficient (+cheaper) sata drives in older IDE (PATA) systems,
paolo to Deano467
11 Jan 11#7
Why didn't I think of that! PATA drives are SO expensive!!
ShaunnyBwoy
11 Jan 111#6
Might wanna let people know this is a desktop HDD, so no good for laptops or ps3 etc
loopie
11 Jan 11#4
I assume they must as you can still buy them on Amazon for example, I assume people with older PVRs, Laptops and Pcs still might buy them, think they are at a price premium over Sata though.
loopie
11 Jan 11#2
Shame I think my Humax 9200T is IDE/PATA so a Sata drive would be no good.
Tom Pickering to loopie
11 Jan 11#3
Do the manufacturers still make PATA drives?
brookheather
11 Jan 11#1
These drives work fine in PCs - fitted one from my Humax PVR that I had upgraded.
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Opening post
Seller is a registered business seller with excellent reputation.
Perfect for PVR's
NOTE: This is a 3.5" drive not a 2.5" drive so is no use for laptops but can be used in PC's.
BRAND NEW SEAGATE PIPELINE HD 500-GB HARD DRIVE
Full 12-Month Warranty Included
These hard drives are the exact same hard drives used by Sky in their Amstrad DRX890 & Samsung 500 HDSKY Sky+HD boxes.
The Seagate 500GB hard drive you are buying here has been removed from a brand new Sky+HD box by us, we take them out when we do our 1000GB conversions. The boxes have never been turned on so you can rest assured the drives are brand new, never used items.
Hard Drive Overview
DVR and media center applications
Entry-level surveillance DVR (SDVR) systems
Low power appliances and devices
Home theater PC
IPTV
Multimedia hard drive recorders
Karaoke and audio jukeboxes
Key Features & Benefits
Sweet spot capacities points of 160GB, 250GB 320GB, 500GB and 1TB, meet the needs of entry level systems as well as high definition media center applications
Tuned to balance high-performance with low power consumption, Pipeline HD drives can support a minimum of 10 simultaneous streams of HD content
Eco-friendly, best in class power performance is easy on the environment while also enabling strict energy conservation programs such as Energy Star
Seagate Soft Sonic™ motor technology enables years of ultra-quiet, worry free operation with acoustic performance as low as 1.9bels
Designed for cool, quiet, worry free, 24x7 operations 365 days a year. Always on, always reliable
Seagate Think Green certified, Pipeline HD drives are more than green - with improved reliability, low power consumption, leading recycling programs, RoHS compliance, PVC free and available and low- halogen designs
Specifications
Model Number: ST3500312CS
Interface: SATA 3Gb/s
Cache: 8MB
Capacity: 500GB
Guaranteed Sectors: 976,773,168
Height: 20.20mm (0.795 in)
Width: 101.85mm (4.010 in)
Length: 146.99mm (5.787 in)
Weight (typical): 420g (0.926 lb)
Random read seek time: <14.0ms
Random write seek time: <15.0ms
Annual Failure Rate: 0.55%
Maximum start current, DC: 2.0
All of the above information and more can be found by following the link below.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?name=st3500312cs-pipeline-hd-sata-500gb-hd&vgnextoid=49d2c1bea859f110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US#tTabContentOverview
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All1
I used the 320GB version of this SATA drive to replace the 250GB PATA drive in my Topfield TF5800 a year ago and it's been excellent - no noise and runs a lot cooler.
But before I bought it I checked on the http://www.toppy.org.uk forums to find out what was involved, and there were lots of posts about problems with SATA to PATA converters - it seemed that only a couple of different chipsets were suitable.
I ended up buying a Startech one from Kikatech - works fine, but check the forums first - I did mine a year ago (a year and a week to be exact!).
:man:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sata-hard-drive-power-cable-splitte/849459#post10348785
you can buy PATA HDDs from humaxdirect.co.uk and rest assured they will work, it is however more expensive than shopping around...
Still a good price for a 500GB HDD though.