Author Topic: Holy Sales! (Read 1042 times)

aknimitz · « **on:** February 16, 2003, 10:10:05 AM »

Yeah yeah, I know this is the wrong forum and it will probably get moved. But I wanted to make sure as many people saw this as possible.

Comp USA has an incredible sale on Sunday/Monday ... 200GB Western Digital Special Edition Hard Drive 8MB Cache - $179.99!! These guys retail for usually at least $279!

Sorry for the off-topic, but buy 'em up!

Nim

Mini D · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2003, 12:32:08 PM »

I remember when HDs finally cost less than $1 per meg... that was such a big deal.

Paying per meg at what I bought my first HD for... a 200gig HD would cost me $5 million.

MiniD

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2003, 01:58:00 PM »

Thats pretty low.. pricewatch.com shows a low of 231. Not a bad deal if you ever get your rebate check.

SirLoin · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2003, 08:59:06 PM »

Hmm...If I win #1 rank this month,I might just order it.....Nimitz,can you tell your bud AKOwl to take a few weeks R&R from AH?

Ghosth · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2003, 11:38:59 PM »

Mwave has the WD 80 Gig 8mb buffer drives for 106$

Smaller yes but still more than sufficent for my needs.

Birddogg · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2003, 04:28:27 PM »

Buffer question.. what are the advantages of 8MB buffer over 2MB ??

Kaz · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2003, 06:41:05 PM »

question, i have a 20GB 5400rpm HD I'm thinking of upgrading (totally replacing the old one) would I be able to reinstall win xp on the new HD using my current win xp cd and/or backup/copy most of my programs to the new HD or would it be easier to just use the new HD as a slave?

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 18, 2003, 08:38:16 AM »

If you buy a western digital you can use the included utility(or dl it from their website) to clone your existing drive.

Just install the new one as slave, boot from the floppy and follow instructions to copy drive C: to D:

When it's done, just make new one the master.

Or, you can do a clean install of windows.

Kaz · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2003, 10:09:41 AM »

I bought a new drive last night so both drives are WD. Thanks for the info blackfalcon, I'll try both hehe.

Chairboy · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2003, 11:48:36 AM »

If your drive doesn't come with a utility for cloning, check out Norton Ghost. It'll do what you want as well. It's part of SystemWorks Pro, so if you have that, you're already set.

Kaz · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2003, 02:37:53 PM »

I'll keep that in mind chairboy, don't have systemworks though so it'll have to be norton ghost if there isn't a cloning utility included.

humble · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2003, 03:36:56 PM »

I'm runing a pair of the 80 gig WD's with the 8 meg buffers...very nice.