$109 WD 40 GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 (Fastest IDE drive around) DEAL OVER! ::: Has anyone recieved their drive yet?

[Quickfingerz]

$169 <-- Buy.com list price
-$30 ($30 of $150 for ALL customers came out today)
-$30 (Western Digital Rebate)
$109 <-- Grand total

WD 40 GB drive here!

REBATE!!!

This deal works for the 20 gb and 30 gb also. Get the 40 gb for the most bang for the buck.

<edit> THIS DRIVE IS THE FASTEST DRIVE AROUND. CHECK STORAGEREVIEW.COM. IT'S THE FIRST 7200 RPM DRIVE WITH 20 GB PER PLATTER.

 

[Wik]

I got the Maxtor ATA100 drive last week 40 gigs with no rebates and one coupon at Staples for teh dame price. WD fastest IDE around? I think not!

 

[Turbo55]

Hey Wik, are you sure it's the Maxtor ATA100 not ATA66 in staples.com? If it's ATA100, please provide me the link so I can grab one too.

 

[namlook]

This item is back-ordered. Is there a chance you can't get the rebate if it doesn't arrive within a certain period of time?

 

[Knocks]

$7 shipping sucks.

does anyone know if this beast comes with a 100 ATA cable

 

[hkssupra69]

It states that the drive is ata66 at the staples website but I think all of the firmwares have been upgraded to make it ata100. The ata100 cable is the 80pin you would use for ata66. And WD hard drives or even this one for the matter are not the fastest hard drives out there. IBM and maxtor both whoop it badly.

 

[Quickfingerz]

This drive cerrtainly is the fastest drive around, check out storagereview.com It has transfer rates near 10k RPM SCSI drives on the outer tracks. Please be more informed before making negative comments on someone's post.

 

[Floyd]

Damn you, Quickfingerz, I don't need another 40G of storage...not as though that's ever stopped me before. I just bought the 45G 5400rpm from CompUSA last week for digital video capture. Good thing my sweetie's asleep already or she'd be yelling, &quot;Push the buy button&quot;. I pitty all you bastards whose women won't let them buy more computer hardware. Gotta think about this a little more.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[dc]

umm... the maxtor 60 series are the first drives that are 20gigs a platter.

this is one of the first drives that are 20gigs a platter AND 7200rpm.

&quot;actually, we're not sure whether Quantum, Western Digital, or Seagate will be the first to get a 7200 RPM 20 GB/platter drive to the retail market&quot;
-storagereview

 

[Quickfingerz]

Shipping plus tax, i bought it for $139 which isn't that bad since i paid $142 for my 30GB 75GXP. 70 gig's of space heaven. this will rock.

 

[IamALBundy]

Bottom line is that its still IDE and its single channel should slow you down bigtime in a year. Dont know how storage review did those tests, but my Winbench, Winmark, and HD Tach tests blows the IDE drives out of their misery. Got my hands on a sweet sweet Seagate 46gig 15000rpm ultra160 and the WD 40gig ata100 a while ago. I have even raided the ata-100, but it still could not outperform the scsi, so i didnt bother getting an expensive scsi raid. SCSI will always be faster and a couple steps ahead of IDE, at a certain cost of course. But as always, u get wut u pay for. gamepc.com has excellent reviews for the Seagate x15 as well as some benchmarks, and even compares it to ata100.

 

[hkssupra69]

All the tests were done on windows 2000 with nfts formatting. should have different numbers on win98/me

 

[DaYooper]

Hmmmm.....

I'm looking to buy a couple of HD for my new Abit BX133 board. I popped over to storagereview.com and it looks to me like IBM was at the top of more tables than WD. I wonder how it does on a W98SE system. Can't beat the price though.

 

[rebuilder]

duh, answered my own question

 

[huesmann]

Gee, Bundy, we don't all have money coming out of our anal sphincters...

 

[jblondi]

Just found this drive at my local sams club for 139.99 after rebate. Sams rebates come in a month or less. Just another suggestion.

 

[greg]

>>>Bottom line is that its still IDE and its single channel should slow you down bigtime in a year. Dont know how storage review did those tests, but my Winbench, Winmark, and HD Tach tests blows the IDE drives out of their misery. Got my hands on a sweet sweet Seagate 46gig 15000rpm ultra160 and the WD 40gig ata100 a while ago. I have even raided the ata-100, but it still could not outperform the scsi, so i didnt bother getting an expensive scsi raid. SCSI will always be faster and a couple steps ahead of IDE, at a certain cost of course. But as always, u get wut u pay for. gamepc.com has excellent reviews for the Seagate x15 as well as some benchmarks, and even compares it to ata100.


1. Hmmmm, Storage Review or a JUNIOR member...whom should I respect?
2. In a related story, all you LOSERS out there still driving Corvettes, I have a Lamborghini DIablo that wipes the floor with your precious Chevy crap.

 

[TAsunder]

I think you misread the review... the IBM drive outperformed it on the outer tracks. It shined on the inner tracks. I'm having a hard time trusting this article though because they list the 75gxp as ata66 when it's actually ata100.

It also does not perform well in win 2000.

On the other hand, it is a WD drive... enough said.

 

[Vette73]

From all the car guys in the World, the New Corvette Z06 is faster 0-60 than a Lamborghini Diablo, read Motor Trend etc...

 

[Wik]

The Maxtor Drive was on sale last week at Staples.com and yes it is an ATA100. It has a sticker on the box that says now ATA100. I connected it onto my ATA66 motherboard and it is real fast. I think they are back to $179.00 so the $40 coupon would only get it down to $139.00 Still a good price fir a drive that really rocks. I have a 20 gig plus 40 that I bought earlier this year that has sold me on Maxtor.

 

[HDClown]

The maxtor is the fastest STR (throughput) of any ATA/100 drives, but the IBM 75GXP still beats it in any access speed pattern, which actually determines the feel of your drive 99% of the time.

 

[Fallen Kell]

IamALBundy:

Correct me if I am wrong, but I would CERTAINLY HOPE that a 15000 rpm drive would be FASTER then a 7200 rpm drive.

 

[MontyBurns]

It seems like we have to have the exact same debate about three times a month.

The statement &quot;SCSI will always be faster and a couple steps ahead of IDE&quot; is patently false. Yes, StorageReview will explain it in greater detail, but the bottom line is that there are very few SCSI devices that exist or are on the drawing board that will outperform an ATA/100 IDE drive. What's more, as StorageReview explains using test data, ATA/66 drives will beat all but the fastest SCSI devices.

The bottom line: Unless you want a 10K RPM drive, there is absolutely no reason to pay $75 or $100 more for a SCSI device in your home PC.

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

For those that have or are looking at the Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 40, see Maxtors website. the newer Diamond Max Plus 45 hard drives have been announced. I heard there were a few problems with reliabilty with so many moving parts (number of platters?) so the newer ones have larger platters with less of them and a slight imporvement in performance. I had one of the Plus 40 30GB drives and went bad after 2 months, got the replacement with Maxtors great warrenty service (except for having to pay for return shipping) and sold it. Wanting to find a store that gets the Diamond Max Plus 45's in stock. Anyone see any of these retail boxed versions for sale yet in 30GB or 40GB?

 

[XzeroR3]

shouldn't you be using the $30 off $150 coupon instead? take another $10 off.

$109+shipping for 40gig 7200 rpm seems good to me

too bad its backorder

I once ordered a backorder modem from buy.com it never did ship. of course this was from an odd company and they must of taken back that model.