FASTEST ide 120GB HD on planet - WD Special Edition with 8MB buffer - $213 shipped

psykik

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This thing is the fastest 100Mb+ ide hd out there. Faster than the ibm 120gxp cos of its 8MB buffer!

Heres a review

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Gateway and dell deals expired? then this seems to be the best currently available price

here for $2025+8=$213 shipped, Sorry not linktified: just do a product search for hard drives>western digital at

http://www.qbitpc.com/

I wonder if theres any rebates or pming on this deal to make it hotter?
 

Buyingsouls

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Might want to change that to GIG vs MEG (not too many people want a 120MB drive, no matter how fast it is ).
 

psykik

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heh guess I got carried away thinkin of 2 of these babies in a raid 0. Changed mb to GB now. My bad.

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

 

Aar0n

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now try updating the body of your post, and then we'll stop talking about porn vids
 

QPid

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<< now try updating the body of your post, and then we'll stop talking about porn vids >>



stop talking about porn???? NEVER!
 

SpeedTester

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<< heh guess I got carried away thinkin of 2 of these babies in a raid 0. Changed mb to GB now. My bad. >>



You gotta fix the message too.


<< This thing is the fastest >>

100Mb+ ide hd out there.

Good post, Im so tempted to order 2.
 

Askani

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I bought mine from Outpost.com, which had it listed as just a regular one (2mb version) for $299 -$100 rebate. I then priced matched to Microcenter which had it for $240 using AMEX. Got my check today. Total for drive was $140.
 

atsang

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<< they need a hdd you can buy and put a 128 meg ddr ram dimm on >>



that would actually be really sweet.....
 

IgoByte

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<< I bought mine from Outpost.com, which had it listed as just a regular one (2mb version) for $299 -$100 rebate. I then priced matched to Microcenter which had it for $240 using AMEX. Got my check today. Total for drive was $140. >>



How the heck do we know which one it really is now that they officially announced the JB model? ? ?
EDIT: Badly formulated question...How should we have known which one it is? You just got lucky, but it would've been worth it even for the regular drive.

This is still an awesome deal, but I'm wondering if this store is any good. Anyone shop with them?
 

Bang4DaBuc

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<< I bought mine from Outpost.com, which had it listed as just a regular one (2mb version) for $299 -$100 rebate. I then priced matched to Microcenter which had it for $240 using AMEX. Got my check today. Total for drive was $140. >>



Do you have a scan of the ad where you found it for 240, Askani? I got the same drive WD1200BB at outpost during the rebate. I think it's printed on the receipt that there was a $100 rebate, can you still PM?
 

jazzisjazz

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nice price, but i think their 2.6 with only 4 posts ( read the views ) on resellerratings will keep me from ordering from them.
 

NuKe9

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<< How the heck do we know which one it really is now that they officially announced the JB model? ? ?
EDIT: Badly formulated question...How should we have known which one it is? You just got lucky, but it would've been worth it even for the regular drive.

This is still an awesome deal, but I'm wondering if this store is any good. Anyone shop with them?
>>



According to the WD site, the JB is the OEM version of the SE. (at least 2 weeks ago it was) Same drive, different model #.. so I hope. I just bought a JB thinking they were one in the same Hope I was right!!

Tom

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Link to specs

*edit # 2*

After poking around a bit, I see that WD1000JB *is* the part number for the 100GB SE drives. WOW.. There is also a 120GB SE drive.. that thing should scream.. forget what I said above about that OEM stuff...
 

ir0nw0lf

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w00t! I noticed that a WD1000JB and a WD1200JB appeared on my distributors price list the other day, ~$12-$25 more than the WD1000BB and the WD1200BB drives. I kept wondering what this new JB model was, after looking here I do now! Thanks for the info!! I have been looking for a new pair of drives to do some RAID-0, think the WD1200JB's would work nicely with a total 16MB buffer?
 

roboninja

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Mmmm, just getting my new Shuttle MB w/RAID....*DROOL* If only the income tax rebate chekc was a little bigger.
 

GetReal

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BTW - Just so you know ahead of time you cannot trust the WD model number for OEM products and even some retail boxed products! Unless the reseller is advertising the special edition model, you can get burned.

Back in November when the rumor first surfaced that WD was substituting the special edition drive for the standard edition in some cases, I called WD tech support to verify this because we had purchased several through various CompUSA, Best Buy and Dell Direct deals. WD tech support said that they ha already received many calls about this issue and the problem had been identified. The rumor that WD shipped specil edition drives in lieu of the standard edition is 100% false. According to tech support, the special edition drives are not even manufacturered and packaged in the same country as the standard edition drives. WD does admit that it shipped some improperly labeled 100GB JB OEM and even standard retail drives labeled as SE. However, most of the improperly labeled drives were OEMs sent to Dell and Dell knew of the problem prior to shipment and still accepted them. These drives were labeled with the 100GB JB P/N , but were actually the standard drive and not the special edition. Only, the P/Ns were incorrect and the S/N series on the drives were correct for the standard edition. The only way that you can verify that you actually have a special edition 100GB or 120GB WD drive is to download and install the WD Data LifeGuard tools v2.8 or later from their website. The earlier versions of Data LifeGuard tools included with your drive do not properly identify the drive buffer cache or the negotiated ATA type for your WD drive. We actually ended up with two of the improperly labeled special edition drives purchase from Dell Small Business , but after running Data LifeGuard 2.8, the utility correctly identifed the drives as the standard 2MB edition and not the 8MB edition as the P/N on the drive would lead you to believe.
 

EliteForces

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this is good for servers but not really useful if you just use your pc to do word or anything like that.

great for business and not good for donerb who just collects p0rn.
 

hk29

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<< heh guess I got carried away thinkin of 2 of these babies in a raid 0. Changed mb to GB now. My bad.

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

>>



you mean Zeeeeeeeeeeeehooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
 

SoulAssassin

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<< they need a hdd you can buy and put a 128 meg ddr ram dimm on >>



See sig.

I can put up to a single 128meg PC133 chip in it but even 64 megs is overkill.
 

xcoldricex

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yeah i want one of these- but it doesn't seem like a reliable place- anyone order theirs from here?
 
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