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Woot Off
2008-09-22, 10:22 PM #1
http://www.woot.com/

Just giving everyone the heads up.
2008-09-22, 10:25 PM #2
"Refurbished" irks me.
SnailIracing:n(500tpostshpereline)pants
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2008-09-22, 10:38 PM #3
ohboy. I have to work, too. :(

I wonder if I can order from my phone... :awesome:
woot!
2008-09-22, 11:21 PM #4
wow it was really moving through some merchandise but then everything seemed to halt on the refurbished 750gb seagate
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 12:45 AM #5
Aw Ag beat me to it

Anyways refurb TV up now
一个大西瓜
2008-09-23, 5:23 AM #6
why am i always at work for these.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2008-09-23, 10:38 AM #7
Quote:
refurbished 750gb seagate


Taking a piece of **** and making it a piece of **** again. Thats why. I hate seagate passionately. I had one for a month and it started to die on me. :argh: WD or GTFO.
"They're everywhere, the little harlots."
-Martyn
2008-09-23, 10:42 AM #8
*Recertified != refurbished

Regardless I bought one a while back and it's been running beautifully.
2008-09-23, 11:05 AM #9
Yeah they were recertified but they were still refurbished.. the price just didn't seem right. I would've paid $40 for it not $60 when I can go to microcenter and get one brand new for the same price
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 11:11 AM #10
Dunno what sort of alternate reality you live in where 750GB seagates are $60 but...
2008-09-23, 12:36 PM #11
I'm thinking about buying the Radeon X1950. Should I? I have a Radeon X300 right now and it sucks and is like 5 years old. How do I know what to look for? How do I know if I have PCI-E?

Current specs are:
3.2 Ghz dell
126 MB video card (radeon x300) piece of ****
2gigs ddr ram
America, home of the free gift with purchase.
2008-09-23, 12:38 PM #12
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Taking a piece of **** and making it a piece of **** again. Thats why. I hate seagate passionately. I had one for a month and it started to die on me. :argh: WD or GTFO.

Oh, yeah, as if other hard drives don't die...

Hard drives are fragile, primitive technology. Your drive would have been just as likely to die if it were WD.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2008-09-23, 12:52 PM #13
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
Dunno what sort of alternate reality you live in where 750GB seagates are $60 but...


A better alternate reality than yours
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 2:02 PM #14
damn, nike sasquatch 2 for $140
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 2:58 PM #15
Actually its the third seagate I've had thats died on me in less then a year.


Currently I'm running two WD's I've had since 2003.
"They're everywhere, the little harlots."
-Martyn
2008-09-23, 3:12 PM #16
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Actually its the third seagate I've had thats died on me in less then a year.


Currently I'm running two WD's I've had since 2003.


The only drive I've ever had die on me was a WD.
2008-09-23, 3:18 PM #17
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Actually its the third seagate I've had thats died on me in less then a year.


Two possibilities:

1. PEBKAC
2. They died because they are hard drives, not because they are Seagate.

Personal anecdotes are worthless. I have hard drives made by Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Western Digital and others. Recently I had a WD die on me after four years, but that certainly won't stop me from buying another.

Talk to someone who manages large RAID clusters. Hard drives in those arrays are hot swappable because they have drives die literally every week. It doesn't matter who makes them. They just die because hard drives suck.

The only time I've had a hard drive die that was actually a bad product was a 40 GB IBM DeskStar, which are legendary for abrubt failure.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2008-09-23, 3:24 PM #18
I've never had a hard drive die that didn't have help from me (ie.. being kicked.. enduring way too much vibrations or shocks)
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 3:25 PM #19
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
"Refurbished" irks me.


"Irk" vexes me.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2008-09-23, 3:25 PM #20
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Actually its the third seagate I've had thats died on me in less then a year.


Currently I'm running two WD's I've had since 2003.


hey kid, i run a tech shop, so i see a lot of bad hard drives. wds break all the f**king time. seagates fail the least. you're just unlucky i guess.
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-09-23, 7:51 PM #21
Why does every thread turn into an argument nowadays?
America, home of the free gift with purchase.
2008-09-23, 7:56 PM #22
because that's they way things are on the internet and if you don't like it you can stfu noob

:p
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2008-09-23, 7:58 PM #23
i'll kill all of you
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-09-23, 7:58 PM #24
seriously
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-09-23, 8:08 PM #25
Originally posted by Onimusha.:
Taking a piece of **** and making it a piece of **** again. Thats why. I hate seagate passionately. I had one for a month and it started to die on me. :argh: WD or GTFO.


You, know judging an entire brand based your expired with a couple of HDDs is retarded. They are by nature fragile, easily broken pieces of technology. I can't count the number of people who avidly hate a company because one or two HDDs died on them. HDDs die no matter who you buy them from, so if you have better luck with WD than Seagate, than it's probably just that - luck, or you're doing something stupid with them. So unless you've dealt with hundreds of HDDs, shut up.
2008-09-23, 8:30 PM #26
i've always had good luck with seagate :-P
2008-09-23, 8:31 PM #27
hey look another certified HD

now I know I can get a 500gb from microcenter for $50
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 8:32 PM #28
Oh man those 4gb micro SD went in like a second, there was only 15 of them. I was going to buy a bunch and hustle them for a profit. Could easily sell them for 10 bucks a pop, probably more.
2008-09-23, 8:37 PM #29
I have that Seagate from a month ago, and despite being re-certified, it runs great. Chances are no one even used it. I've always had great luck from Seagate. Western Digital has only been good to me because I can get dead ones replaced easily.

I bought two things so far this Woot-Off. A mouse and an AC power inverter for cars.
Naked Feet are Happy Feet
:omgkroko:
2008-09-23, 9:05 PM #30
Plus one for seagate aw3somness.
2008-09-23, 9:07 PM #31
Refurbished products are fine. In fact, they're often better, since they go through more stringent QA than new products. Refurbished hard drives I can understand being wary of due to their fragile nature. Other things are fine. I'm running two refurbished Dell 2007FP monitors and they're fantastic.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2008-09-23, 9:08 PM #32
Originally posted by Vegiemaster:
I bought two things so far this Woot-Off. A mouse and an AC power inverter for cars.


I was too late for the mouse :(
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2008-09-23, 9:11 PM #33
Haven't bought anything yet..hopefully I'll find something good.
woot!
2008-09-23, 11:17 PM #34
egh.. Stupid DVD recorder. >.<
-=I'm the wang of this here site, and it's HUGE! So just imagine how big I am.=-
1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
2008-09-23, 11:21 PM #35
all of you should buy this horrible thing so I can hurry up and get a bag of crap.
-=I'm the wang of this here site, and it's HUGE! So just imagine how big I am.=-
1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
2008-09-23, 11:27 PM #36
Originally posted by Emon:
Refurbished products are fine. In fact, they're often better, since they go through more stringent QA than new products. Refurbished hard drives I can understand being wary of due to their fragile nature. Other things are fine. I'm running two refurbished Dell 2007FP monitors and they're fantastic.

The biggest downside to me for a refurbished HDD is that the warranty isn't as long. Here's hoping it doesn't fail after 181 days. :P
Naked Feet are Happy Feet
:omgkroko:
2008-09-23, 11:31 PM #37
Damn, these things always take forever. :(
Naked Feet are Happy Feet
:omgkroko:
2008-09-23, 11:36 PM #38
That's because the typical geek up at 1:35 am cst on a woot off has no need for an upconverting dvd recorder. :P
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1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
2008-09-24, 12:08 AM #39
Ugh... Whyyyyyy!
Naked Feet are Happy Feet
:omgkroko:
2008-09-24, 12:13 AM #40
aaaaaaaand they killed the woot off as best they could. egh. stupid compaq computer on an overnight woot. :(
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1337Yectiwan
The OSC Empire
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On
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