WD caviar blue 500GB 16MB drive $25

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Replay

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Limit 5 drives, but someone on another site says the code only takes off $10 on your total order. Had thoughts of upgrading several cheap gaming lan rigs.
 
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Cheetah8799

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Replay, apparently if you have other accounts, you can place additional orders using the code once per account.
 
jjmIII

jjmIII

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Jumped so fast I forgot my 1.5% FatCash!

This will be OOS quick!
 
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Replay said:
Limit 5 drives, but someone on another site says the code only takes off $10 on your total order. Had thoughts of upgrading several cheap gaming lan rigs.
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Yeah, i added 5 to my cart and the coupon only took off $10 total.
Perhaps you could do multiple orders though. it shows free shipping.

Bought 1. May buy more later.
 
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MisterE

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Yeah, the code appears to only be good for one drive on one order. I tried to order a second drive using the same account, and the coupon code wasn't accepted. "Didn't meet the criteria" or some such was the message.
 
VirtualLarry

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advanced format? in a 500GB HD? that's pretty lame. No worky for XP. :(

Edit: Damn, I guess it wasn't advanced format after all, even though newegg's product description page listed that. I thought that was strange for a small drive like a 500GB to be AF. Should have jumped when it was $25. :(
 
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jjmIII

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VirtualLarry said:
advanced format? in a 500GB HD? that's pretty lame. No worky for XP. :(
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http://hothardware.com/Articles/WDs...vanced-Format-Windows-XP-Users-Pay-Attention/

"The good news is, Western Digital has already solved the problem. Those of you who want to use an AF drive in Windows XP can either install a hardware jumper (if you plan to use a single, simple partition) or run a software tool called WDAlign. Either solution will restore the drive's full write performance, but WDAlign is what you'll need to use if you've created multiple partitions on a single disk. For our test, we compared the performance of a Caviar Black 1TB (32MB cache, 7200 RPM), and an Advanced Format Caviar Green 1TB (64MB cache, 5400RPM) in 32-bit Windows XP. The Caviar Green was tested both properly aligned and unaligned to highlight the impact of not using WDAlign or setting the requisite jumper."
 
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jrichrds

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This drive isn't advanced format after all.

And Newegg raised the price $10 right around 8:40AM Pacific.
 
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