WD 250GB SATA $109

[IanWorthington]

Is this too good to be true? I've never heard of these guys before:

http://www.bestbargainpc.com/wedi25sawdsa1.html

 

[Lark888]

Reseller Ratings below average and a few recent very negative comments.

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[Marauder-]

Originally posted by: IanWorthington
Is this too good to be true? I've never heard of these guys before:

http://www.bestbargainpc.com/wedi25sawdsa1.html

The catch is probably that it's a PATA drive w/ a SATA interface so it doesn't take advantage of the speed or NCQ abilities of, say, the newer Seagates.

 

[Samus]

thats crazy cheap, the only thing thats odd is a 1yr warranty (although it sez dealer direct?) if they're not @%(#ing with us this is holy-hell-hot.

OEM WD's are warrantied for 3 years from WD.

 

[XeonTux]

Originally posted by: Lark888
Reseller Ratings below average and a few recent very negative comments.

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Looks like you could be waiting a month just to end up with a different and cheaper product than you order

probably too good to be true...

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: XeonTux

Originally posted by: Lark888
Reseller Ratings below average and a few recent very negative comments.

Bestbargainpc Reseller Ratings

Looks like you could be waiting a month just to end up with a different and cheaper product than you order

probably too good to be true...

LOL...I'll be ordering one from these guys for sure!!!...NOT!

 

[OVERKILL]

i just read all of there reseller rating reviews.
It sure sounds like a fly-by-night company.
I'd even be afraid to buy a pack of gum from them :laugh:

 

[hytek369]

cheesy site

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: hytek369
cheesy site

Yeah...almost like a yahoo site...

 

[pigeonhed]

Originally posted by: OVERKILL
i just read all of there reseller rating reviews.
It sure sounds like a fly-by-night company.
I'd even be afraid to buy a pack of gum from them :laugh:

I am sorry the pack of gum is backordered would you like tic-tacs instead? ;-)

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: pigeonhed

Originally posted by: OVERKILL
i just read all of there reseller rating reviews.
It sure sounds like a fly-by-night company.
I'd even be afraid to buy a pack of gum from them :laugh:

I am sorry the pack of gum is backordered would you like tic-tacs instead? ;-)

They don't ask, they will just ship the Tic Tacks. If you wanted gum, you will have to return it for a 15% restocking fee.

 

[yukichigai]

ZipZoomFly has the same drive for only $20 + shipping more. The price does seem to indicate it's PATA with a SATA interface connection though.

 

[IanWorthington]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think there was much in it between the speed of a bridged and a native SATA, at least with the current range of SATA drives?

Anyway I'm after one for backups, SATA being hot-swapable (at least when I can persuade Windows to keep its grubby little file handles from locking stuff on it), so the speed is not a biggy.

ian

 

[SNM]

Originally posted by: IanWorthington
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think there was much in it between the speed of a bridged and a native SATA, at least with the current range of SATA drives?

NCQ can make a fairly huge difference, which this drive doesn't support.

 

[razmax]

Good deal, thanks

 

[Kravahn]

It's a Yahoo reseller site, fyi

 

[shortylickens]

Just for reference:
Me and a bunch of other geeks I know have had bad problems with the first gen WD 250GB SATA drives. I had two and the first went bad within a month, the 2nd only lasted 5 months.
Same with most of my buddies.
Warrenty is nice, but I don tlike a drive dying inside of 30 days.