Western Digital 80GB Hd $39.99 w/ free shipping

[rasputinj]

CompUSA has a great deal on the


Western Digital WD Caviar 80GB, 7200RPM, Internal EIDE Hard Drive

on sale for the HOT price of $39.99 after $50 rebate

 

[all2neat]

rumor has it Staples will have the 160 maxtor for the same price on friday.

 

[Sasiki]

The only thing i have against maxtor is the 1 year warranty. I have a Raptor as my primary drive, but i think i'd still rather the WD 80gig than the maxtor 160gb just because of the warranty.

 

[Cawchy87]

unless you need double the storage.

Do you guys have staples do a 150% pricematch in the states? Because i know whatever deal we find in Canada we just bring it into Staples and get it even cheaper .

 

[alm4rr]

Originally posted by: Sasiki
The only thing i have against maxtor is the 1 year warranty. I have a Raptor as my primary drive, but i think i'd still rather the WD 80gig than the maxtor 160gb just because of the warranty.

this drive is 1 yr warranty, too

 

[alm4rr]

OP forgot link

http://www.compusa.com/product...sp?product_code=294555

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: all2neat
rumor has it Staples will have the 160 maxtor for the same price on friday.

Not a rumor. $39.94 after MIR of $35

 

[zodd24]

Does this drive perform better than Seagate and/or Maxtor drives?

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Originally posted by: zodd24
Does this drive perform better than Seagate and/or Maxtor drives?

My order of preference (between the 3):

Seagate
Maxtor
Western Digital

 

[zodd24]

From one review I saw from storage review, the Seagate drive was the worst performer. I think the review was for 160 or 200GB HDs. Aren't caviar hard drives fast hard drives?

 

[BRObedoza]

anyone know if these can be used in a PS2 with hdloader?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
anyone know if these can be used in a PS2 with hdloader?

From what I've read, WD drives physically don't fit the PS2 HD adaptor, because of the spacing of the power/IDE connectors. Maxtors, and possibly Seagates, do fit.

Other than that, between my 80GB and 160GB WD JB drives, and my 250GB DM+9 Maxtor, the WDs are both noticably faster, when two programs are trying to access the drive at once.

For example, I can't burn a DVD from the Maxtor, and try to copy files to/from it at the same time, while I can with the WDs. Discovered that annoying fact the other day, and it caused burn-proof to kick in about a dozen times.