Western Digital Raptor 74gb Rebate

[DarphB]

Click here for link to WD site, and vendors you need to purchase from!

 

[rgwalt]

Newegg has these drives on sale for $205 plus free shipping through Memorial Day. Combine that with the rebate, and you have yourself a pretty hot deal.

I bought two of these drives from Neweg for $410, and then you can take the $50 rebate to make the drives $360 shipped free, or $180 per drive.

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[Muadib]

Must leave this thread....

 

[cheapgoose]

bought one last week when it was $210. got another today at frys, retail for $180. if you have a frys, go there soon.

 

[CtlAltl33t]

ordered one today, 10k rpms here i come!!! w0ot

 

[Airs]

fry's has 74gb retail raptors for $180???? WTF?

 

[Peetoeng]

Must resist, must resit...........aaaaaAAAArrrg

I still remember when I bought $400 2.1GB UW-SCSI drive because I wanted to have SCSI on my machine (not including $250 UW-SCSI controller). Yes, it was just for sheer pleasure of having SCSI--I didn't do anything disk-intensive.

I'll stay with mainstream computing this time ($1/GB or less).

 

[dboy]

You consider $1/gig inexpensive? I haven't paid over 15 cents/gig for over 2 years (and I have 5x200gig drives, 4x80 gig, and a few 40s between my machines)

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: dboy
You consider $1/gig inexpensive? I haven't paid over 15 cents/gig for over 2 years (and I have 5x200gig drives, 4x80 gig, and a few 40s between my machines)

DUde this is the Raptor we're talking about. None of the drives you're using on your machine would be faster than this.

 

[ectx]

Originally posted by: dboy
You consider $1/gig inexpensive? I haven't paid over 15 cents/gig for over 2 years (and I have 5x200gig drives, 4x80 gig, and a few 40s between my machines)

You bought 200gb drives at less than $30 (15cent/gb). It is a good deal even for used drive. How do you get them?

 

[dboy]

My pricing comment was geared to the post above mine where he said he'd stay w/ mainstream drives at a buck a gig instead of the raptor. I know my drives aren't as fast as a raptor (of course, putting a couple of them in a raid array helps and is still cheaper...)

As for the pricing I quoted, I got 3 of the 200gig drives from Dell a while back when they had a rebate screwup and I got them for about $25 each. The others I used a bvg/rebate/pm type deal and got them from compusa a couple months ago, for about $30 each. On some of te 80 giggers I got PAID to take them after all the rebates...

 

[CtlAltl33t]

If you're building a new system with a top of the line mobo that has SATA support, why not get a SATA hard drive? I figure I can buy a 74 gig now which will hold me over until the prices on SATA drives come down

 

[coolred]

How loud are these? Sure i can check reviews, but I am lazy

 

[RGrizzzz]

Um, Prices on SATA drives are low(as low as IDE drives), just not on the Raptor's. They're more expensive because they're 10K RPM drives and carry a 5 year warranty. Prices probably won't drop crazy low on these.

 

[dirtrat]

Sounds like it belongs in the Brag and Moan thread! Even Raided I doubt your hard drives will be as fast as a single Raptor let alone a pair of Radied Raptors!

Originally posted by: dboy
My pricing comment was geared to the post above mine where he said he'd stay w/ mainstream drives at a buck a gig instead of the raptor. I know my drives aren't as fast as a raptor (of course, putting a couple of them in a raid array helps and is still cheaper...)

As for the pricing I quoted, I got 3 of the 200gig drives from Dell a while back when they had a rebate screwup and I got them for about $25 each. The others I used a bvg/rebate/pm type deal and got them from compusa a couple months ago, for about $30 each. On some of te 80 giggers I got PAID to take them after all the rebates...

 

[DarphB]

I just upgraded to a Pair of these 74gb Raptors.
And OMG, what a speed difference. Boot time was cut in Half, and Video editing, is just unbelievable!!!

If you got the money... Buy a pair of these.

Not the 36gb'ers. The 74's are alot faster!

 

[TrungRacingDev]

the fastest you can go is 133 mb/sec because of the pci bus speed...having 2 36 raptors raided and 2 74 raptors raided would not make any difference...

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: TrungRacingDev
the fastest you can go is 133 mb/sec because of the pci bus speed...having 2 36 raptors raided and 2 74 raptors raided would not make any difference...

Not if your raid controller isn't on the PCI bus... Most of us have SATA integrated to our motherboards.

 

[Phew]

This rebate wants a UPC code, according to the WD link. I bought the OEM drive from Newegg, it came wrapped in bubble wrap. That's it. I guess I can't get this rebate?

 

[WebDude]

Well the rebate program at Newegg ended 5/30. Wonder if they'll extend it with a new rebate, or lower the price of the drive? I guess time will tell.

 

[Boogak]

Originally posted by: Phew
This rebate wants a UPC code, according to the WD link. I bought the OEM drive from Newegg, it came wrapped in bubble wrap. That's it. I guess I can't get this rebate?

The Newegg rebate only asks for a copy of the invoice and the rebate form. It also asks for the serial number, but no mention of a UPC.

 

[cerebusPu]

wah..i need a new drive at work.. maybe i can sneak this raptor drive into the purchase.

 

[Averox]

Originally posted by: TrungRacingDev
the fastest you can go is 133 mb/sec because of the pci bus speed...having 2 36 raptors raided and 2 74 raptors raided would not make any difference...

The thing is that the 74GB Raptors are better in a whole, not just double the size. Check some benchmarks and see

 

[WebDude]

Just checked NewEgg and they've extended their rebate offer to June 5 (same offer).

 

[FunkierThanU]

I got a dumb Raptor question for anyone else that got one of WD's retail packages... the SATA cable that comes with it... it plugs into both the data and SATA power jack on the back left half of the drive but only plugs into the SATA cable jack on my MOBO... Does the SATA jack on the mobo provide power to the HD too?

It specifically says not to plug that thing and regular old fashioned power into the drive at the same time??