200GB Western Digital Special $129.99 AR at Fry's

[Lager]

Fry's has 200GB Western Digital Special Edition 8MB Cache hard drive for $199.99 before $70 mail in rebate.

199.99 - 70 MIR = $129.99 plus tax. Comes out to $146.49 for me with tax. About .73 cents per GB.

 

[inkara]

link? model number? any info at all?
the only one on outpost.com I can see that could be close to what said is this
maybe it was an instore thing?

 

[Praxis]

Which Fry's is this? I saw something on TB about this deal in the Bay Area, but didn't notice at the SJ Mercury ad web site.

Does this guy have the 3 year warranty or the more standard (these days) 1 year warranty? My impression was that the Special Edition drives have the 3 year warranties, in which case, this is a reasonably toasty deal. if you need a pile of drive space. On this sucker I could back up every OS I have (mostly a bunch of Linux distros).

 

[HESDog]

1. It is Fry's / Outpost # 3483523, which inkara has linked above.

2. retail boxed with 3 year warranty.

 

[inkara]

i will goto my local frys (sacramento) and see what they got and report here hopefully with good news

 

[inochi]

Yes please report the news..I've been looking for a good deal on this harddrive and I missed the deals from a couple weeks ago

 

[idfubar]

price is $229 on the website, any cheaper at the B&M?

 

[dbz007]

Originally posted by: idfubar
price is $229 on the website, any cheaper at the B&M?

It's $199.99 - $70 rebate for a total of $129.99 down here in southern california.

 

[yujini]

Just bought one.
it's 200 + tax and a 70 dollar rebate.

146.50 total after rebate in san jose

 

[TheBigWookie]

And you get a Promise controller card with the HD too. It needs it becasue it it a 200 Gb HD. I've had mine for a couple of weeks now ... nice.

 

[Tokar]

doesnt windows XP SP1 support drives over 137GB?

 

[xkenny013]

Originally posted by: Tokar
doesnt windows XP SP1 support drives over 137GB?

It should. Windows 2000 SP3 does ... though I had to set this Registry key in order to get it to recognize the entire drive:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters]
"EnableBigLba"=dword:1

Not sure if it is required on Windows XP though.

 

[DEFIANT1]

Originally posted by: xkenny013

Originally posted by: Tokar
doesnt windows XP SP1 support drives over 137GB?

It should. Windows 2000 SP3 does ... though I had to set this Registry key in order to get it to recognize the entire drive:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters]
"EnableBigLba"=dword:1

Not sure if it is required on Windows XP though.

It's not, as long as you apply SP1

 

[docinthebox]

This deal was advertised on Wednesday's SJ Mercury paper:

link