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Today is the last day. WD 180GB hard drive $199.00

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:47 am
by JRoDDz
Circuit City has the Western Digital WD1800JBRTL for $199.00 after rebates.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:15 pm
by BuddhaTB
Is this the Special Edition one with 8MB cache or just a regular 7200RPM drive. If it's the second of the two, then not a hot deal.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 3:35 pm
by tazdevl
JB=Special Ed.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 6:17 pm
by BuddhaTB
tazdevl wrote:JB=Special Ed.

Thanks tazdevl

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:41 pm
by JRoDDz
It's the Special Edition. I just bought one for my replayTV. I've now got 180 hours of digital recording time :D

PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 8:30 am
by TheWizard
Even with the special edition, this deal is warm at best. $199 BEFORE rebates = hot. $199 after rebates = warm. I don't like paying more than $1 per gig.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 10:58 am
by Action Jackson
This is one sweet drive.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 2:11 pm
by BuddhaTB
TheWizard wrote:Even with the special edition, this deal is warm at best. $199 BEFORE rebates = hot. $199 after rebates = warm. I don't like paying more than $1 per gig.

I agree. $1 per GB is a nice rule of thumb when buying at Hard Drive to determine how hot the deal is.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 6:35 pm
by JRoDDz
JRoDDz wrote:It's the Special Edition. I just bought one for my replayTV. I've now got 180 hours of digital recording time :D


I'm going to return it because I found a better deal, Maxtor 200GB for the same price at CompUSA. While I was waiting for the salesperson to open up the cabinet a guy was asking him if they had any LiteON burners. The salesperson said "I've never heard of them." I had to tell the guy to buy a TDK VeloCD which was on sale for $29.99 and that it was a LiteON.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:53 pm
by TheWizard
Haha! Yeah, why is it that none of the "techs" at retail electronics chains know nothing about the merchandise they sell? JRoDDz was referring to CompUSA, a retail computer chain, and the salesperson knew nothing about Lite-On! It's a sad, sad world.