Deal dead. WD at dell. Changed title cause some people are intimidated by me saying it's DOTY.

[volfan]

pillage2001, you killed my Credit Card, "You, B@stard"! J/k. I got sucked in for the second time on this drive in a week. I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to do with all this space. Thanks for the post, man!

[EDIT]What luck...I must have got in 2 second before they changed the price. I got the original lower price, or else I wouldn't have done it. [/EDIT]

 

[aldamon]

Wow, I guess Dell is accounting for the "free" shipping and $10 "off" coupon eh? Sounds like Newegg. LOL. Glad I got in.

 

[xDrAGoNx]

sorry for all of you who didn't get in on the deal, but this is a semi-good sign for those of us who did. We know now that Dell is aware of this particular product. If they didn't change the item to OOS then there shouldn't be any delays due to supply shortages.... but lastly, something thats still worries me, would charging 189 for this hard drive still be a good price? i mean if it truley is the WD 8mb Special Edition, 189 would still be a good deal after 20% coupon and $10 off.

 

[Joemonkey]

Yeah, got it at $169, co-worker wanted in on it, was $189 all of a sudden... oh well, now it's a DECENT deal.

 

[KLineD]

well holy damn....i am 10 damn minutes late. thinking if i shud still get in on it and sell it on fleebay or my existing drives there..hmmm...decisions decisions

 

[tazmania99]

Aaarrgghh....so tempting.....gotta resist.....oh...oh...no..please don't.....WooOooAhaHAhhAH.....I am cumming.......Damn Dell has been sucking my blood hard this month! I already spent more than $1k for their products. First Canon G2, then TDK 32x burner, Seagate 80G HDD, and now this 120G baby. Ok, fine, it deserves my cum!

 

[FatDragonn]

it works out to be about $16 more than the original price after the 20%.

 

[rbb]

To all of those who put the drive in a shopping cart to get the price of $169 locked in with the 20% and coupon so they could purchase it later today - guess what. Dell's system goes in and changes the price of items in the shopping cart

RBB

 

[xDrAGoNx]

<< Yeah, got it at $169, co-worker wanted in on it, was $189 all of a sudden... oh well, now it's a DECENT deal. >>



Well doing the math, if this IS indeed the 8mb cache version, 189-20%-$10=141.20 shipped! That's still as HOT as the previous deal... If all goes well, GOOD job people, this may be the first Magma hot hard drve deal for me.

EDIT: Pillage, if i get the 2nd hard drive for 125 bucks shipped, i will be forced to name one of my children after you, haha

 

[Devistater]

WTF, I deleted cookies and restarted, then I went to dell and it shows up as $189 original price now. ARGH.

The coupon does show up automatically, but with the price raised $20, that means its basically up %10 percent in original price, then down 20% with automatic coupon, so its the same or worse than before.

Ok, the 20% off JUST appeared on the software/peripherals main page. Here's what I'm guessing happened. They put the coupon in the system a short while ago, judging by the times of the anandtech posts, last night before they left work.. They then prepared to change the main page. Meanwhile some ppl got the discout. This morning when they got to work, they changed the hard drive price up %10+. Then they put the 20% coupon the main page of soft/periph.

Perhaps dell just raised prices on select items, or on all items %10, then offered a 20% coupon. Anyone track some other prices recently? Other hard drives, or those CD writer drives? Because I'm wondering if they just cranked up the price on only the hard drive or everything.

Darnit, I shoulda freaking stayed up last night no matter how tired I felt!

 

[Gujski]

**WHEW** I just got my email confirmation of 125.20 ..although the second email added 10 bucks shipping? wtf

first email acknowledgement: shipping $0
secon email confirmation: shipping $10
oh well total is still only $135, that's only $1.13 per GIG

 

[railer]

<shrug>

Deal of the year might be taking this to far, if a $16 difference bumps this all the way down to from 'DOTY" to 'decent'.

I''m very wary of these Dell OEM's. You will get NO WARRANTY from WD. Look up the s/n on their web site and see what I mean. Dell's warranty is iffy. It might be 90 days or 1 year if installed in a Dell system, and before you think "I'll just tell them it's in a Dell" realize that they could ask for your asset tag # and then you'd be screwed. That's why I didn't jump on this when it was $142....

 

[JohnnyMnemonic]

According to the Product Highlights page, it is the 8MB version.

This is what the Product Highlights page turned up :

Highlights: Rotational speed 7200 RPM
Average rotational latency 4.2 ms (nominal)

Spin-up time

20, 40, 80GB (1 and 2 platter) - 7.0s average

120GB (3 platter) - 9.0s average

Cache (total) 20, 40, 80GB - 2MB

120GB - 8MB

Seek time (without command overhead, including settling)
Read - 8.9 ms average
Write - 10.9 ms average
Interface transfer rate
Buffer to Host:
100 MB/s (mode 5 ULTRA ATA)
66.6 MB/s (mode 4 ULTRA ATA)
33.3 MB/s (mode 2 ULTRA ATA)
16.6 MB/s (mode 2 multi-word DMA)
16.6 MB/s (mode 4 PIO)
Buffer to Disk:
602 Mbits/sec maximum

Interleave factor 1:1

I guess that proves our point.

Man!! I just spent 200$ on Dell. LiteOn and HD combined.. Damn them and you!!

 

[BossDog]

"..<FONT face=Verdana>Aaarrgghh....so tempting.....gotta resist.....oh...oh...no..please don't.....WooOooAhaHAhhAH.....I am cumming.......Damn Dell has been sucking my blood hard this month! I already spent more than $1k for their products. First Canon G2, then TDK 32x burner, Seagate 80G HDD, and now this 120G baby. Ok, fine, it deserves my cum! ..."

Well, that was exceedingly distasteful...</FONT>

 

[JHawk]

This will make my Showstopper REAL happy--thx for the deal!

 

[Spooner]

for the love of god, i just bought this drive last night for the $142 price!

I'm wondering if they're going to ship all these.

 

[tazmania99]

WoOoAaaAHHhH....Glad I was able to catch the train. Just rec'd the 2nd email of confirmation from Dell! $125.20 shipped!

 

[MAYAN]

Price on the website is $189.00 now???

 

[Insomniac]

<< This will make my Showstopper REAL happy--thx for the deal! >>



Do you want to use a 7200 RPM drive in your ShowStopper?

 

[rimshaker]

It's now starting at $189 :| :| :| :|

 

[Garet Jax]

Oh well....

You snooze (like me) you lose (like me). Missed this deal to.

 

[Fatboy420]

Whew, just got my order confirmation:

DELL
Hard Drive; 120GB Ultra ATA/100, 7200RPM, for Dell Dimension
Qty:1
Unit Price:$125.20

Sub-Total $169.00
Discount -$43.80
Shipping $10.00
Shipping Discount -$10.00
Tax $0.00
Total Price $125.20

 

[gopunk]

<< Oh well....

You snooze (like me) you lose (like me). Missed this deal to. >>



yea, if you were smart like me, staying up at 3 AM to cruise AT, you would have gotten in. shame on you

 

[gregor7777]

I'm pretty confident about this deal going through now.

(Banging my head on wood to make sure)

 

[rimshaker]

<< Oh well....

You snooze (like me) you lose (like me). Missed this deal to. >>



Yea, but this was natural sleep!!! dammit!! :|