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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: aknimitz on February 16, 2003, 10:10:05 AM

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: 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

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Mini D 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

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: rabbidrabbit 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: SirLoin 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?

:)

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Ghosth 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Birddogg on February 17, 2003, 04:28:27 PM

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

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Kaz 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?

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: blackfalcon4 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Kaz 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Chairboy 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: Kaz 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.

Title: Holy Sales!
Post by: humble 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.