WD1600JB for $198 at Sam's Club

[ROTC1983]

It seems that the Sam's Club (B&M) in Hawaii has gotten in some Western Digital Special Edition (8 meg cache) 160 gigabyte hard drives. It comes with a ATA 100 controller PCI card also. The deal has been confirmed on the mainland

 

[hollowman]

is this a good price? i know it's definitetly a good hdd. =)

 

[ROTC1983]

I looked at pricewatch and the price was 265 shipped without the controller...

 

[m1ke101]

this seems like a hot price, correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[Byte]

you are not wrong

 

[MyBuds]

What size platters does this hard drive use?

 

[ROTC1983]

How would you check that? I am still in college right now...I will check when I get back home...

 

[roamerr]

Great price -- I sold two on ebay for approx $240 each.

I would not need a drive that big but many do apparently!

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
It seems that the Sam's Club (B&M) in Hawaii has gotten in some Western Digital Special Edition (8 meg cache) 160 gigabyte hard drives. They come with a ultra ATA PCI card controller also(I will check what the controller chip brand is when I get home). If this deal is at other Sam's clubs or you find a cheaper deal (I checked pricewatch) LMK. Has anyone seen this deal over on the mainland?

The included controller card is a PCI ATA-100 card by Promise. It's the TX2 controller.

 

[sxr7171]

Sounds like a really good deal. The price per GB is slightly lower than paying $150 for the 1200JB (which is a good deal for that drive) and you get a bigger drive (which is important in certain applications where the number of drives one can have is limited).


The numbers:

$150 for 1200jb = $1.25/GB

$198 for 1600jb = $1.2375/GB

= Good Deal!

 

[LuNoTiCK]

So is this local or nationwide?

 

[Lvis]

They had them at the South Portland, Maine store last weekend. Just as he discribed. SE 160gb w/controller card. Though about making a post about it... but figured someone probably already had.

 

[Cerebus451]

I just picked one up at my local Sams Club. Wasn't too sure about how hot it was when I went in to buy it, but feel better now that I see it at $264 on PriceWatch for an OEM drive, not the retail box. The only disappointment is ATA100, but I am not sure if WD even has an ATA133 drive out.

One bit of strangeness, the drive they pulled out of the cage for me had a different price tag taped to it with a $228 price. The date was 11/07/02, so the $198 might be a recent price drop.

 

[ir0nw0lf]

AFAIK, only Maxtor has ATA-133 hard drives out right now. Correct me if I am wrong! I'm not totally sure why this is either, but what the hey. Damn good price!

 

[dethman]

i don't think there's a real world benefit to ata-133. the next real step will be s-ata. also i think tom's hardware did a review on the 120gb se's, and platter size (40gb vs 60gb)had virtually no real world effect on performance. consider those facts, and don't just buy hard drives on stats alone.

this is a nice deal, too bad the price has to include around $15 in tax for most of us.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

I know it's nice to have one large drive, but why pay this price when you can get 80's or 120's for $1/GB or less?

 

[ROTC1983]

Tax was cheap over in Hawaii Only like 0.042 (Everything else is expensive though )

 

[Byte]

Originally posted by: dethman
i don't think there's a real world benefit to ata-133. the next real step will be s-ata. also i think tom's hardware did a review on the 120gb se's, and platter size (40gb vs 60gb)had virtually no real world effect on performance. consider those facts, and don't just buy hard drives on stats alone.

this is a nice deal, too bad the price has to include around $15 in tax for most of us.

great, we have a tom'er....

 

[ir0nw0lf]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Tax was cheap over in Hawaii Only like 0.042 (Everything else is expensive though )

Do they toss in a free can of SPAM with each purchase?

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: ir0nw0lf

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Tax was cheap over in Hawaii Only like 0.042 (Everything else is expensive though )

Do they toss in a free can of SPAM with each purchase?

Hey, the stuff ain't that bad...

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
I know it's nice to have one large drive, but why pay this price when you can get 80's or 120's for $1/GB or less?

The 160 GB "SE" drive is a great drive for people who only want one disk drive - or, may only have room for one drive. I'd rather have (1) 160 GB "SE" drive in my system for quietness as opposed to (3) 60 GB drives, but that's just me. I do have the 160 GB "SE" drive in my system at the moment and it's quite sweet!

A couple of points to keep in mind for anyone purchasing this drive:

1) The ATA-100 card is included because some motherboards can't fully address (or recognize) the drive; your motherboard might require a new flash update, if you don't want to use the Promise card.

2) The card was also included (along with a driver) because Windows can only "see" 137 GB of space. If you are running Windows XP, then you need to get SP1 installed to get beyone this limitation.

This is a great drive - nice, quiet, fast - did I say quiet? I love how silent it is. I have to really focus my hearing on my computer to hear the disk when I'm copying several MB of data to it.

Have fun!

 

[Byte]

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[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: Byte
"Why everyone complain about Mr Thomas Pabst? What is problem? His site be always on my list of 10 best places on whole Internet and I am visiting regularly with completely satisfaction. Maybe other members of Storage Review Forum would like to have my number one Top Ten List also, which I compile after much careful research. Is many great sites on list. Please, everyone to enjoy.

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-Ekaf-ami

Wow, this should belong in off topic . Thanks for all the feedback on the drive everyone

 

[Keen314]

Originally posted by: dethman
i don't think there's a real world benefit to ata-133. the next real step will be s-ata. also i think tom's hardware did a review on the 120gb se's, and platter size (40gb vs 60gb)had virtually no real world effect on performance. consider those facts, and don't just buy hard drives on stats alone. this is a nice deal, too bad the price has to include around $15 in tax for most of us.

www.storagereview.com for hd reviews.

 

[DEFIANT1]

Originally posted by: wje
2) The card was also included (along with a driver) because Windows can only "see" 137 GB of space. If you are running Windows XP, then you need to get SP1 installed to get beyone this limitation.

Then the software (2x120 WD "JB") 240GB RAID 0 Stripe, and the hardware (3x100 WD "SE") 200GB RAID 5 stripe that I'm running must be a figment of my imagination. Wait...<clicks "My Computer"> There they are! Same as it was before I applied SP1 to XP Pro....

So what, exactly are you basing that claim on? I'm drooling at the possibilities of a monster file-server with some ultra-large drives. Can you say "A terrabyte"??

I knew you could