TOSHIBA 40GB Super Slimline Internal 5400RPM Notebook Hard Drive HDD w/ 16MB Cache $113.86 shipped

[kerokeroppi82]

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Product Highlights

40 GB storage capacity
2.5" high sleek design
16 MB Buffer
ATA-5 interface supports high transfer rates up to 100 MBps
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor drive
High area density per platter at 34.7 gigabits per square inch
Ideal for notebooks and non-PC applications such as PDAs, printers, copiers, GPS systems and MP3 players

seemed like a good deal to me, what do you guys think?

 

[zzzz]

good price..

 

[sygyzy]

You named yourself after a Sanrio frog! That's so cool!

 

[T2T III]

Yes, Nice Price.

 

[Rupster]

There is a 20% off coupon out there that makes this deal even sweeter.

 

[amnesiac]

IIRC that's an erroneous entry in Dell's catalog. They have been shipping the Hitachi/IBM 5400RPM drives instead. Test show that the Hitachi is faster anyway.

I can also vouch for this, as I ordered the above drive and was shipped the HItachi one. Several orders of magnitude faster than the stock HD that came in my Powerbook.

 

[TEEZLE]

Yes definitely a misprint on Dell's site. If you really want a good drive go to Googlegear.com. They have the IBM 40gnx for $128 with free 2 day shipping.

 

[cmv]

Hrm... I ordered the Dell drive for my model (Inspiron 4000) that was listed as 40gb 5400 RPM. Hopefully it is the Hitachi drive. I guess I could always return it (did the 20% off plus 15% deal last week). If you have a Dell laptop and you're ordering from them it is worth checking out the refurbished notebook power supplies for $20 each. Mine keep wearing out...

 

[MegaNerd]

Originally posted by: TEEZLE
Yes definitely a misprint on Dell's site. If you really want a good drive go to Googlegear.com. They have the IBM 40gnx for $128 with free 2 day shipping.

Good luck with that. I ordered an IBM lappie drive in November from Googlegear and they thoughtfully sent me a drive with an orange sticker that says "Serviceable Used Part." Couldn't get them to do crap about it. I'd avoid them like the plague. :disgust:

MN

 

[BoKingWen]

Isn't this the deal that they sent you another drive instead of the Toshiba?

 

[Souka]

If you really want a good drive go to Googlegear.com. They have the IBM 40gnx for $128 with free 2 day shipping.

The IBM (now Hitachi) drives is the fastest notebook drive around...even faster than the Toshi 16mb cache version. I read a review online comparing a number of these drives...

For $128, the IBM drive is a great laptop upgrade.....

 

[AWEstun]

Originally posted by: MegaNerd

Originally posted by: TEEZLE
Yes definitely a misprint on Dell's site. If you really want a good drive go to Googlegear.com. They have the IBM 40gnx for $128 with free 2 day shipping.

Good luck with that. I ordered an IBM lappie drive in November from Googlegear and they thoughtfully sent me a drive with an orange sticker that says "Serviceable Used Part." Couldn't get them to do crap about it. I'd avoid them like the plague. :disgust:

MN

If the desccription didn't say refurbished, then they could get into trouble for selling used things as new.

shelbY

 

[Ark]

Old thread

Apparently it was a little different item, but they shipped Hitachi drives instead.
Lets see what happen here

 

[isekii]

i'd stay away from anything IBM in their Hard drive line

 

[777php]

Originally posted by: BoKingWen
Isn't this the deal that they sent you another drive instead of the Toshiba?

Welcome to the thread.

 

[TEEZLE]

Originally posted by: MegaNerd

Originally posted by: TEEZLE
Yes definitely a misprint on Dell's site. If you really want a good drive go to Googlegear.com. They have the IBM 40gnx for $128 with free 2 day shipping.

Good luck with that. I ordered an IBM lappie drive in November from Googlegear and they thoughtfully sent me a drive with an orange sticker that says "Serviceable Used Part." Couldn't get them to do crap about it. I'd avoid them like the plague. :disgust:

MN

I have bought from Googlegear for almost 2 years. Not once have I ever had a problem. Approx. 8 orders from them. I have bought, HD, motherboards, cpus from them. Their 2 day shipping is exactly what they say, they have processed every order next day for me (except Sunday). But of course it comes down to the price, so Dell might be the way to go with their drive, especially with the coupon.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
You named yourself after a Sanrio frog! That's so cool!

haahehahehaeha

 

[MegaNerd]

Originally posted by: AWEstun
If the desccription didn't say refurbished, then they could get into trouble for selling used things as new.

shelbY

You would think, but they didn't give a d@mn and I just didn't have the time to hassle with them. I'm using it and backing up a lot. It can't do any worse than the refurb drive Dell sent me for a warranty replacement last time which lasted 3 months before crapping out. I decided not to screw with another refurb warranty drive, and got hosed by googlegear instead. The really irritating thing was that the IBM hard drives site back then recommended them as the preferred vendor. Maybe it still does.

The lappies warranty is gone now, so next time I'll just order something like this from Dell. At least when you buy NEW from them, you actually get NEW!

Either my IBM drive is slower than the old drive, or rebuilding the system as a NTFS file system made it run somewhat slower. But in any case, it works for now, so I'll just be grateful for that....

Take care,
MN

 

[poolshark]

is this really out there ?
There is a 20% off coupon out there that makes this deal even sweeter

 

[LotusNotesGuy]

I ordered one Sunday and it came today from Dell, its a toshiba drive in case anyone is thinking of ordering to get the Hitachi.

Incidentally, while I was hoping for the Hitachi, where IS the info comparing these drives. Someone posted up top the Hitachi was faster?

I just found an article here :

Benchmarks between IBM and Toshiba notebook drives

but would be interested in any others. Okay I have the Toshiba drive, but now it looks like the IBM is quite abit faster???

Any opinions on what I will see on the Toshiba 40 gig 5400rpm vs the Hitachi of the same size and rpm on a T30 in the real world?

 

[Ark]

LotusNotesGuy:
What is a warranty on this drive?
Normally Dell components 90 days only, did you try to check if it covered by Toshiba?

 

[LotusNotesGuy]

I have a question, which I will post in the help section as well, is there some caching or other function on win xp pro that runs continuously?

This drive never ever stops, and I have file indexing turned off when I look at it?

I am worried its going to burn itself out.

thanks

 

[scoreadeal]

Deal is back through the 7th, 20% off, no coupon needed.

$107.16

 

[RDMustang1]

Originally posted by: isekii
i'd stay away from anything IBM in their Hard drive line

Yea, that's like saying "I'll never ever buy a Ford because the Ford Pinto was unsafe"... People just don't understand, IBM created one faulty line of hard drives.. All their others have been top quality. If you go by this logic then you should never buy a Maxtor, Western Digital, Sygate or Fuji brand hard drive either since all of them have had multiple faulty hard drive lines over the last 15 years.. Since they messed up once you can NEVER buy from them...

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: RDMustang1

Originally posted by: isekii
i'd stay away from anything IBM in their Hard drive line

Yea, that's like saying "I'll never ever buy a Ford because the Ford Pinto was unsafe"... People just don't understand, IBM created one faulty line of hard drives.. All their others have been top quality. If you go by this logic then you should never buy a Maxtor, Western Digital, Sygate or Fuji brand hard drive either since all of them have had multiple faulty hard drive lines over the last 15 years.. Since they messed up once you can NEVER buy from them...

But it wasn't just that. IBM for 2 or 3 hard drive lines (60GXP and 75GXP and maybe 1 other I forget now) printed a specification in the official documents that said maximum power on hours per month was to be 300. (i.e. you were supposed to run it less than 10 hours a day). Note it was POWER ON hours, not hours reading/writing. So they definately had a problem and not just ONE faulty line of drives.

But that's not the only reason to avoid IBM. The other reason is that they are selling the whole hard drive business thing to Hitachi. Who knows where the warranty or support will go. I imagine there will be provisions for support, but what if there's not? What if hitachi buys it out and then just scraps the whole IBM drive lines and decideds to forget about it. I doubt that would happen, but put all of these issues together and its troubling.

Not only that, IBM refused to admit they even HAD a problem for quite a while. If I remember correctly it took a class action law suit (not sure about that one though).

Anyway, I would stay away from IBM hard drives just to be better safe than sorry. I remember Anand himself posted about this very issue some time ago. He said something about going through 5 or 6 replacement hard drives for a couple IBM ones he bought and that they all had ended up failing and I'm pretty sure he said wasn't going to be buying IBM for the web server anymore.

My 2 cents. Feel free to reply and say your 2 cents