200GB WD SE for $99.99 + tx w/ $100 MIR

[Ph34rful]

Hmm. I didn't think CC pricematched mail-in rebates.

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: BigBlueEdge

Originally posted by: kindest

some people are pricematching Via circuitcity and walking out the door with 200 drives for 100 bucks + tax

How are they doing this? Does CC have a current ad showing the 160 for $100?? Will BB pricematch that?

Thanks!
BBE

no no, bestbuy has the 160 gig drive for 99 after 2 MIR's in their flyer, some people are taking this flyer to circuitcity
and price matching the drive from BB to circuitcity and picking out 200 gig (160gb mislabeled) drives and CC price matches to the
after mail in rebate price of 99 at BB. but this is a huge YMMV, since some people got it to go thru and others were denied.

 

[drkhwk]

* Orlando Update *

Just strolled into Best Buy around 8PM and there was ONE 160GB drive sitting on the shelf. To my suprise it was actually a 200GB drive! Needless to say the Best Buy at Waterford Lakes does not have more of these drives

 

[soltrain]

just got back from Emeryville in the Bay Area. No 160/200 drives left at all. Zip. Nilch. Nada.

 

[BigBlueEdge]

Originally posted by: kindest

no no, bestbuy has the 160 gig drive for 99 after 2 MIR's in their flyer, some people are taking this flyer to circuitcity
and price matching the drive from BB to circuitcity and picking out 200 gig (160gb mislabeled) drives and CC price matches to the
after mail in rebate price of 99 at BB. but this is a huge YMMV, since some people got it to go thru and others were denied.

So CC will pricematch to BB even though BB's 'price' includes rebates?

Also, does your message imply that the supply of WD 200GB-in-160GB-boxes is at more retailers than just BB?

Thanks!
BBE

 

[RobK]

Apparently Frederick MD has a bunch still.

 

[jewelzdaggy]

If anyone finds a 200 gb I will gladly pay a finders fee, tax, and actual shipping costs. Gonna cost me too much to drive to the nearest BB anyway. Don't know if that's allowed on these forums to make a request like that but I really want one

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: BigBlueEdge

Originally posted by: kindest

no no, bestbuy has the 160 gig drive for 99 after 2 MIR's in their flyer, some people are taking this flyer to circuitcity
and price matching the drive from BB to circuitcity and picking out 200 gig (160gb mislabeled) drives and CC price matches to the
after mail in rebate price of 99 at BB. but this is a huge YMMV, since some people got it to go thru and others were denied.

So CC will pricematch to BB even though BB's 'price' includes rebates?

Also, does your message imply that the supply of WD 200GB-in-160GB-boxes is at more retailers than just BB?

Thanks!
BBE

yes according to others at Fatwallet people have gotten the 200 drive with a pricematch of the after rebate price but like
i said its a huge YMMV and i wouldnt count on it being able to work.
You can check that thread here.

 

[Rorschach]

So I looked in the store closest to me (Rockville, MD) on wednesday morning and only saw 160 drives on the shelf. I didn't ask about the ones above the shelves because I'm a B&M deal noob. I then proceeded to drive all over looking in other BBs without any luck. Today I was eating at the Chicken Out next door to BB and I thought I'd go in just for the heck of it. There were two 160s on the shelf, both 200s!!! Woohoo!!

I imagine they were above the shelves on wednesday and were taken down since. I took one and my coworker took one so there weren't any 200s (or 160s) left on the shelf. There were several up above though, we could reach one out of the stack and it was a 160. I don't know about the rest, I was in a hurry so I couldn't wait for an employee to check them.

So if you're in the area you can check the Rockville and 355 stores, they might actually have some of these on hand. Sorry if I misled anyone with my previous post, though there definitely weren't any on the shelves on wednesday.

 

[Netopia]

Rorschach, after all your patience and driving (especially in that hurricane lightening storm!) I'm glad you scored! Good deal.

Joe

 

[Cardio]

The Houston Fry's has 200 Gig WD's with 8mb for $100 after rebate. They are in a regular 200 G box so no doubt about the rebate being legit, if you get it~my record about 50/50.

 

[Technocrat]

Went to a couple BB's in St. Louis and scored one and there were six left at the Bridgeton location. WOW

 

[subflava]

Has anyone tried entering the serial number off of one of the 200GB drives and checking their warranty status? I just entered mine and western digital lists my drive as Model No "WD1600JBRTL". The actual label on my drive clearly states WD2000, model WD2000JB, etc. I wonder what would happen if the drive were to break and you sent it in for warranty repair? Would they send back a 160GB drive or a 200GB? Granted, as long as the drive never breaks it's not an issue, but I'd be curious to know.

Can you guys that have these drives check your serial numbers also and see what model WD states it is?

Here's the link

 

[godfire]

An update from the BB in SF by Costco:

Yes, they have them. I know somebody else said that they didn't, but I just came back from there. There weren't any on the shelf, so I asked the guy to get me some...upon inspection, sure enough, they were WD2000JB - 200 gig drives. There's still a few more which are also 200 gig drives, but I didn't pick them up because I thought I'd save it for you guys.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: sandmanwake
Alright, I finally got it to reconize all 200 gigs of space. If anyone else runs into the same problem as me here's what I did. Basically I installed the ATA card and windows xp found drivers for it, version 5.something or another. Unfortunately, you have to use the older driver found on the disk that came with the card if you want it to work properly. I popped that disk in, chose the older driver myself from the device manager and after I rolled back to the older driver, everything worked fine. Goes to show--newer is not always better. My drives are now formatted and ready to go.

Just a curiousity, which brand HD and card? Was it a re-labeled promise Ultra IDE controller? I have an Ultra66, and was using the newest publically-available drivers for W2K, 2.00.00.42, available at Maxtor's web site. Those worked fine for several IBM HDs that I had, along with a Maxtor 60GB DM9+ drive. However, I have yet to be able to use Promise Ultra family drivers newer than 1.69 build 36 (for W2K) with my current WD 80GB JB drive. There's some bizarre incompatibility between the drive and any of the newer Promise drivers (uncluding the version 2.00.00.29 available on Promise's site). I have not yet installed the "RAID patch" firmware update for my WD JB, although I'm not sure if it's required or not.

Do these match your experiences? Was the driver supplied with the controller, that you had to "roll back" to, version 1.69 build 36?

The symptoms that I encountered when using the newer drivers, was that the graphical boot sequence of W2K, with the progress bar, just plain stopped progessing, near where it normally detects IDE/SCSI devices. I once left it for hours, and it eventually failed at some blue screen, I think.

 

[sandmanwake]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry



Just a curiousity, which brand HD and card? Was it a re-labeled promise Ultra IDE controller? I have an Ultra66, and was using the newest publically-available drivers for W2K, 2.00.00.42, available at Maxtor's web site. Those worked fine for several IBM HDs that I had, along with a Maxtor 60GB DM9+ drive. However, I have yet to be able to use Promise Ultra family drivers newer than 1.69 build 36 (for W2K) with my current WD 80GB JB drive. There's some bizarre incompatibility between the drive and any of the newer Promise drivers (uncluding the version 2.00.00.29 available on Promise's site). I have not yet installed the "RAID patch" firmware update for my WD JB, although I'm not sure if it's required or not.

Do these match your experiences? Was the driver supplied with the controller, that you had to "roll back" to, version 1.69 build 36?

The symptoms that I encountered when using the newer drivers, was that the graphical boot sequence of W2K, with the progress bar, just plain stopped progessing, near where it normally detects IDE/SCSI devices. I once left it for hours, and it eventually failed at some blue screen, I think.

It was a Western digital 200 gig hd. The controller is a Promise Ultra100 Tx2 IDE. The symptoms of freezing you describe is consistent with what I had happen to me, only XP did eventually boot up. The driver I rolled back to was version 2.0.210.36, it came with the controller.

 

[The Sauce]

I hate you guys. Really. Thanks to all you ass-jabbers I now have ~400GB of storage that I don't even need! Guess I'll just have to hack that Tivo now and get about 200 hours of recording time. BTW, for the Pittsburghers, I just scored the last one at Robinson BB. The one in the North Hills was completely sold out.

 

[Danzilla]

Well, I went to two different BBs and all they had were 160s. Regardless, Fry's electronic's is offering the real 200GB SE drive for $99.99 after $95 rebate. The one they show in their add was the older box instead of the new plastic one and I think that's what they're clearing out, but I'm not sure.

Just FYI, if you have a Fry's in your area and no luck at BB.

D.

 

[Steelwells]

DATELINE: MILWAUKEE, WI...

One drive available at the Southridge store... but it was a 160gb.

Decided I would take the G/F on a ride to the north side of town and scored 1 on the shelf that was a 200gb! w00t. Figured that the price was good enough that I would see about another... and the BB rep found me 6 more: all 200gb. If you head to the Mayfair store, they had 5 left on the shelf before I left!

G/L!

 

[vbplyr]

Picked up the 200GB version at Fremont, CA Fry's last night with the two rebates. Caveat emptor: both rebates supposedly require the original UPC.

 

[RedGSR]

Originally posted by: sandmanwake
I did use the ATA card for the 200 gig drive. Are you guys saying I should also hook up my 80 gig drive to it and make the 200 gig a slave? I ran the tool that came with the drive and partitioned it up, but windows still sees it as one large drive. Let me give it another shot, this time with a smaller size partition. Thanks guys.

For anyone who ran into similar problems as me, I finally got Windows to reconize all 180ish gigs of the HD but I had to use the Data Lifeguard Tool that came with the drive to partition the drive into 2 roughly 100 gig partitions. I wasn't able to do it in Windows. For some reason, when I deleted the second partition on the HD, it reverted back to only seeing it as 10G free space. Now I've just got to figure out why boot up is so slow for me after adding these two 200 Gig drives in with the 80.

Here's a trick I tried and has been working so far. This is for those who don't have an XP SP1 bootdisk but still want a single partition on their drive. Add the new drive to your existing system and partition it for the full space. You have to have the SP1 patch installed in order to do this. Of course either your mb BIOS or IDE card has to support the larger drive. Make sure it is set as an active primary partition. This is important because XP won't install on extended or simple partitions. I don't even know what a simple partition is, but XP forced me to use it. Then install XP onto that partition. Then immediately apply the SP1 patch. Voila!

 

[DUKAT1]

Same deal is available at CC beginning tomorrow (Sunday, 8/31)

link to thread on CC deal

 

[The Sauce]

So can someone summarize how to install this thing w/ an existing and/or new version of windows?

If you have XP with SP1 already installed do you need to use the controller card or will windows recognize the 200GB?

If you try to install a fresh XP on the 200GB drive how will windows be able to recognize the full 200GB before SP1 gets installed? Won't this cause data corruption?

 

[somechineseguy]

wow
does anyone know if this is happening in canada as well? or is it just in the states?

as well is it only the 160/200 hd's?

 

[spinn]

SF BB update...

I took the last 2 160GB drives...both were 200GB.

On a side note, I opened one package and didn't notice a Promise driver disk included. Just 2 disks for the WD drive. How many disks should be included?