IBM DESKSTAR 40 GV' 40GB IDE UDMA/100

[fixedbyjohn]

Plain wrap @ www.computergeeks.com
$119

 

[kmannc]

Linkified

This is a pretty good deal - anything that hits $3/meg or less is a good price. This is a 5400rpm drive - which doesn't bother me - but some people crap on threads that offer up these drives - just ignore those comments.

You also get this drive from accessmicro.com - here - for $113.

The price is pretty close so you might need to compare shipping/coupons.

 

[tigereye]

Linkified

Only 5400 RPM, but nice deal.

 

[sitka]

huh, I was just about to post that. Got the I-Will sideraid from them nice and fast and cheap. Full box with all extras, not raped. Don't think it has variable stripe size? But 20 bucks for 2 ATA 100 cables (never know when the razor might slip) and a couple extra channels. Can't beat it.
Track your shipping from their website, I don't think I recieved shipping track number from UPS,FEDex in E-MAIL.

 

[RDMustang1]

Same drive is $101 at http://www.nexthardwareshop.com/pricewatch1.html
Check pricewatch, this is definitely not a great price, an ok price...

 

[emanon]

Personally, I find $3/meg kind of steep - I'd prefer about a gig for that!

 

[Bad Dude]

This drive only got one year warranty guys.

 

[freebee]

sitka edit your response. Wrapped has a "w" in it. Nobody is getting "raped".

 

[godsgift]

eeww one year warranty,just about missed that part...

 

[javathehut]

Also only has a 512K Buffer which is really weak!

 

[Muadib]

Are these refurbs??

 

[BiGNuTz]

its only 5400rpm. pay a little more, add 20-30 dollars and get a 7200 rpm. there's a big difference.

 

[Phunktion]

Those GV's are kinda slow you might want to find one of the 5400 Maxtors that perform marginally better overall.. anyway if you pay the extra $40 you can have the GXP deskstars which absolutely rock!

 

[rgroves]

I think there is nothing wrong with this post. It's a good deal for those with limied funds. But for those who have more money than bills (or GF's / Wives). spend the exra and get the GXP version... I did before I met my GF... now I can't afford either one. :-(

 

[ElFenix]

also, this is great for a "slush" drive, put mp3s, movies, whatever in there. it would be perfect for that sort of thing.

a one year warranty on a drive shouldn't concern anyone, if drives fail they do it in the first couple months for the most part.

 

[Knightshade]

This is also nice for people upgrading TiVos... keep in mind a faster drive not only doesn't improve performance in that case, it's actually worse since cooling becomes an issue.

 

[VNamee]

If you can, get the 7200rpm...I dunno about the 5400, but man...that 75gxp or whatever it is is way smoooooooth....

 

[Siamskunk]

People just don't get the point. You always said to get the 7200rpm and crap on this.

Com'on...sometimes it doesn't need to spin real fast to do the job. Some just need this for back up or store MP3, MPEG or whatever.

This one should fit your needs nicely if you know what kind of stuffs you are gonna need it for.

 

[mechBgon]

Actually, that 40GV drive is not slow. Try comparing it against other drives at Storage Review's comparison database.

 

[bfavre]

Talking about slowness. Here's my long-time question:

Is it true that when you have a CDrom (which runs slow) and a U66 hard drive on the same channel, that it will run at the speed of the slower device (hence the PIO4 speed cdrom)?

Is it also true that one device on the channel can be used at one time? So on the master channel, you can use either the primary hard drive or the slave cdrom?

If this is true, then it would suck. I have two hard drive, and two Cdroms (1 is CDRW). If I put 1 hard drive and 1 CDrom on each channel, the hard drive would run at the speed of the cdrom. If I put the 2 hard drive together on one channel, only one can be active at one time so HDD to HDD copy would be slow. And then I can't copy from CDrom to CDRW because only one can be active at once.

This could also mean trouble for my video editting since I'll either run at PIO4 speed when 1 HDD is with 1 CDROM, or it'll only have 1 HDD active at one time. How would you deal with this dilemma?

 

[amdskip]

I am pretty sure you can get this drive shipped for $125 something at outpost.com and you will have it the next day. I would rather buy from them and then add whatever else u want because of the free shipping.

 

[VNamee]

Not saying this drive is slow...just saying the 75gxp is really good. As it is my one and only hard drive, I'd settle for nothing less. As a storage drive or for people who don't care either way, 5400 rpms are fine...I still have em in my old computer and really, my only complaint is that they were too loud (cuz they are old).

 

[yodayoda]

wait, i got that email too and the email says it is a 7200 rpm drive. if we bitch and moan, do you think we could get a 7200 rpm, ata/100, 40 gb ibm drive (aka the 75gxp)?

 

[dingdongdingdong]

if you use master card it will bring you down another 10% off too

 

[NazzyG]

I've had some REALLY bad experiences with computer geeks. Not saying you're going to...but I wouldn't order from them again.

I'd say getting three defective CD ROM drives in a row and having to pay shipping to send back each one probably negates any savings you might have found there.

Gaines