[Redcloak]

Are those new drives or drives that have been returned to Fry’s a dozen times?

: )

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well the one in front of me here is all nice and clean wrapping,...

I can't seem to find the number ST310005N1A1AS-RK on the Seagate Website,...that number is the Seagate suppliedsticker with the serail number....

The Fry sticker has ST31000340AS...which is on the Web Site....

Seagate is probably just trying to get its warehouse cleaned out a bit .

The 500 Gig drive on the shelf had a sticker of 189$....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think they are dumping the older models....

Looking at Newegg....this model...Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS is going for a jump in price and must be a later model...not sure what the difference is....