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OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

Larr

OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

by Larr » Fri, 04 Oct 2002 03:35:13

CompUSA has those fancy Western Digital Special Edition (8MB Cache) 80GB
drives on sale for $89 after rebate.

That's the lowest price, by far, that I've seen.

Just picked me up one :)

-Larry

Steve Smit

OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

by Steve Smit » Sat, 05 Oct 2002 04:16:29

Larry,

Yer right--it is a good deal.  CompUSA's usual price on this drive (a pretty
good one, according to the revus) is $130, but for a couple of days, you can
get a $50 rebate from Western Dig (one rebate per household...or I mighta
bought two).  If yer interested, tho, better hurry--the offer expires the
day after tomorrow.

Thanks!

--Steve


Larr

OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

by Larr » Sat, 05 Oct 2002 05:07:31

I picked one up last night and installed it.

This puppy SCREAMS!

I did some quick & dirty synthetic benchmarks with ATTO Tools, and it hit
sustained transfer rates in excess of 80MB/Sec at some block sizes.  The
best my Maxtor D740x, considered as a very fast drive as well, could muster
is around 40MB/Sec.

I'm happy.  I have what is probably the fastest IDE drive made in my
desktop, and my File server inherited an 80GB drive to go along with the
other 4 drives already in there.

Not bad for $89 :)

-Larry


> Larry,

> Yer right--it is a good deal.  CompUSA's usual price on this drive (a
pretty
> good one, according to the revus) is $130, but for a couple of days, you
can
> get a $50 rebate from Western Dig (one rebate per household...or I mighta
> bought two).  If yer interested, tho, better hurry--the offer expires the
> day after tomorrow.

> Thanks!

> --Steve



> > CompUSA has those fancy Western Digital Special Edition (8MB Cache) 80GB
> > drives on sale for $89 after rebate.

> > That's the lowest price, by far, that I've seen.

> > Just picked me up one :)

> > -Larry

Galle

OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

by Galle » Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:21:01


words of wisdom:

A few weeks ago I scored the 120GB version from CompUSA for $229, plus there was
a $100 rebate. :-)

--
"Life is what you experience between racing games"
Galley

Larr

OT - Hard Drive Deal (Western Digital 80GB Special Edition)

by Larr » Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:38:09

These SE's are nice drives, aren't they :)

-Larry



these
> words of wisdom:

> >CompUSA has those fancy Western Digital Special Edition (8MB Cache) 80GB
> >drives on sale for $89 after rebate.

> >That's the lowest price, by far, that I've seen.

> >Just picked me up one :)

> >-Larry

> A few weeks ago I scored the 120GB version from CompUSA for $229, plus
there was
> a $100 rebate. :-)

> --
> "Life is what you experience between racing games"
> Galley


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