160BB Western Digital Deal.

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited February 2004 in Trading Post
This one looks decent, tell me if you have a better price source, please-- I am thinking a lot about getting one for backup imaging and cold-swap file transfer\archiving uses (ALL three). For my needs I do not need a special edition drive. I WANT an IDE, Western Digital, Drive.

PRE-SHIP Price is $109.99, after mailin rebate, source buy.com. Linkage below:

http://enews.buy.com/cgi-bin5/DM/y/haHo0G6ECK0D4U0BdrH0C1

Buy.com details, verbatim:
Western Digital Caviar WD1600BB Hard Drive 160GB Standard 3.5" ATA-100, 7200 RPM, 2MB
Our Price: $124.99 List Price: $260.49 Price After Rebate: $109.99 You Save: $135.50

John.

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    http://www.slickdeals.net/#p4138

    $60 for the same one.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    The BB versions of WD drives are the one with 2mb cache. The JB versions are the ones with 8mb cache. They are still good for storage tho but dont expect performance form those drives.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Even better: go to OfficeMax this week and get a rain check on the Western Digital 80 GB SE drive for $19.99 After Rebate. They said that if you get the rain check, they have to honor the quoted price, even if the drive shows up after the rebate period. Which means they'd have to mark it down to $19.99 AT THE REGISTER!
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    The BB versions of WD drives are the one with 2mb cache. The JB versions are the ones with 8mb cache. They are still good for storage tho but dont expect performance form those drives.

    Mark, for huge file performance I would agree, but they have the same average seek times exactly. For smaller files, seek is more important than caching, for hugely large files the reverse can be true. Let's say you have files typically greater than 2 MB. then the bigger cache is better. Proportionately, for what I am archiving, the files are more less than 2 MB each than otherwise. To get a JB running at full effectiveness, you would need an average file size of 8 MB or bigger-- enough to fill cache repeatedly, not just partly fill it.

    GHoosdum-- I HAVE two 80's, JB series, occupied with archived stuff. The deal is nice, but nearest Office Max is 250 miles away. Thanks, though.

    John.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    gh... that's a good idea. I wonder how many office max's there are around here... hmm... I could use, oh, say... 8 of them... :D
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited January 2004
    Newegg does it again :D $106 w/o rebate http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-140&catalog=14&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Al_Capown wrote:
    Newegg does it again :D $106 w/o rebate http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-140&catalog=14&manufactory=BROWSE&depa=1

    Where are the Gold Stars??? Thanks....

    John D.
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