That 120 gig Hard Drive from DELL

[Spooner]

Anyone actually get it and confirm that it works?

I ordered mine last Tuesday and it still claims to be "In Production." What are they building it from scratch?

I'm wondering if I'm ever going to see it.

[EDIT]:

Apparently I called customer service and they admitted that it was a gross pricing error, and that they were honoring everyone's orders, but was put on backorder.

That's cool that they're honoring them. The price should have been $250, i bought it for the $142 price. Works for me

 

[GermyBoy]

Yeah, I got two of them. They're great. My buddy got two as well. They're in raid. 223GB. Mine format to 111GB each.

 

[Spooner]

How long did it take to ship?

At this rate, I'll get it in 2003. :disgust:

 

[Geekbabe]

<< Yeah, I got two of them. They're great. My buddy got two as well. They're in raid. 223GB. Mine format to 111GB each. >>




sweet

 

Do they have an 8MB cache?

 

[Johnnie]

got mine too
true WD1200JB

 

[Farbio]

got mine too....working great, formated to 3 38gig drives

 

[Viper GTS]

Mine are still showing in transit to local carrier, been showing that for almost a week.



Viper GTS

 

[Utterman]

Got mine Thursday with the western digital labels on them, but I don't get the 3 year warrenty.

 

[Maleficus]

soooooooooo not fair i want 1!!!!!!!

 

[amnesiac]

Mine supposedly ships tomorrow.. I honestly don't know WTF I am going to do with 120GB of space.. I mean I still have 8 GB left on my 40....and that's with all my illicit material too.

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Mine supposedly ships tomorrow.. I honestly don't know WTF I am going to do with 120GB of space.. I mean I still have 8 GB left on my 40....and that's with all my illicit material too. >>



The real purpose of these drives is the speed, not the capacity. Even if it were only 40 GB I still would have ordered it.



Viper GTS

 

[Maleficus]

illicit material, lol

 

[Maetryx]

I have 2 100GB ATA100 Western Digital drives from back when Sams Club was selling them for $219 - $100MIR = $119.

 

[John]

I failed to jump in on the deal. However, it looks like a lot of AnandTecher's were able to benefit from the Hot Deal.

 

[pillage2001]

<< Mine supposedly ships tomorrow.. I honestly don't know WTF I am going to do with 120GB of space.. I mean I still have 8 GB left on my 40....and that's with all my illicit material too. >>



pr0n......and more pr0n.

 

[amnesiac]

<< pr0n......and more pr0n. >>



Let's just say I'll be VERY surprised if I find someone with more pr0n than I have


*edit*

I think I'll use this time to gloat about the fact I got the drive for the astronomicaly low $125 shipped price.

 

[pillage2001]

<<

<< pr0n......and more pr0n. >>



Let's just say I'll be VERY surprised if I find someone with more pr0n than I have >>



REally?? I thought my circle of friends in this uni holds the record for the most amount of pr0n vcd and movies stored in their HDD.

 

[oLLie]

<< Yeah, I got two of them. They're great. My buddy got two as well. They're in raid. 223GB. Mine format to 111GB each. >>


Can someone explain why you lose space when you format? Or do manufacturers just lie about the true size?

 

[Joyride]

<< soooooooooo not fair i want 1!!!!!!! >>


Screw 1 I want 2. It would last me forever



<< Can someone explain why you lose space when you format? Or do manufacturers just lie about the true size? >>


I know there was a recent post about why formatted HD space is less then advertised. Just do some searching and you can find it

 

[Spooner]

bump for above edit

 

[JSang]

got mine as well...works great!
only wished i had ordered more...

 

[Viper GTS]

I should have mine in a day or two, but I don't have a tracking number.



My order shows shipped on the 23rd though, with delivery estimated by the 30th.

Viper GTS

 

[Spooner]

The guy gave me like a 10 minute explanation of what happened as if I didn't understand what a pricing error was.

"You see, sir, it's kind of like if Dell's stock was selling at 25 cents... the demand rises extremely fast"

 

[BCYL]

<<

<< Yeah, I got two of them. They're great. My buddy got two as well. They're in raid. 223GB. Mine format to 111GB each. >>


Can someone explain why you lose space when you format? Or do manufacturers just lie about the true size? >>



When harddrive manufacturers say their drive is 120GB, they use for formula 1MB = 1000 bytes...

While in reality 1MB = 1024 bytes...

So if you do 120 GB x 1000 x 1000 / 1024 / 1024 = 114 GB...

Then partition information also takes up some space...