Western Digital 200GB Internal Hard Drive, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache $118 Free Ship (07/03 only)

[dealsurfer]

This is the enclosure i use and it works with my laptop.
5.25 Enclosre

I am Curently using it with a WD 200 JB, XP Pro, Cel 1.6GHz Toshiba saetelite.

(I Know Celeron) But the price was right when i bought it and it has a CDRW/DVD combo and a 15" screen.

 

[foniks]

Originally posted by: luv2save
Dell Home is carrying this 200GB Hard Drive for $299.95
Also search for "A0080850" to add RJ-45 CAT6/5e Patch Cable to your shopping cart for $3.95
Dell Home is currently offering 10% off on both the itmes
During checkout, apply $35 off $300 STACKABLE coupon code on it (Expires 07/03/2003)
There is a $120 Exclusive Rebate on it until 07/31/2003
Dell Home is offering Free Shipping on S&P purchases over $49
Your Final Price: $299.95 + $3.95 - $35 - $29.99 - $0.39 - $120 = $118.52 + Free Shipping

cool

 

[Yo2]

Originally posted by: dealsurfer
Actually i just heard that the manufacturers are sick of losing so much money on drives and prices will be going up

Yeah right... and I am sick of making so little money flipping burgers, so I am going to ask for a really big raise...

It will not happen if the market does not allow it.

Yo

 

[slayer1001]

anyone else having a problem installing this drive?

whenever i put the controller card in, my ecs k7s5a wont boot up. everything is spinning and stuff, but theres no beep and bios, theres nothing on my monitor (it stays lit amber, leading me to think it has no signal)

ugh....
any ideas or suggestions?

thanks!

 

[jasonxc]

perhaps you need a more powerful power supply?

 

[rqle]

Originally posted by: teklord
I just bought the Maxtor Diamondmas Reatail 200gb 8mb cache *ATA-133* from CompUSA for $129 + shipping($5) + tax(NY). As far as I know Maxtor is the only drive that supports ATA-133. Big plus in my book. WDs are my favorite drive, everything is so damn cheap these days.

ATA 133 does nothing, even the burst rate doesnt reach 133MB/s yet alone every reaching near 133MB sustain.

 

[Buckwild]

Just a word of warning.

I purchased this drive from Frye's a few days ago. Got it installed but was having lots of trouble w/ the controller card. Finally, I just had to make it a slave on my primary IDE and it picks up the 200 gig fine (altho it has slowed my computer down considerably).

I've been trying to get this stupid controller card to work for quite awhile. And it's just not working. Any ideas would be helpful. Just thought I'd give you a heads up on any possible controller issues you guys might encounter.

ps: I'm running a 2.5g P4 on WinXP w/ SP1 and 1 gig of ram on a Abit SR7-8X mobo. Yes I installed the drivers that came with the WD drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

 

[huesmann]

Howabout you try downloading the latest drivers from the WD website? Or try the Promise website, since it's a Promise card (I think)?