160 gig HD

[Gus Davis]

CompUsa is selling a 160 gig HD for $70.00.

Is that a good deal?

 

[mikey]

check the specs.
does not appear to be a FAST hard drive.

being that it is the GENERIC one advertised here.

IDE not EIDE, 40 pin cable not 80 pin cable, etc...



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CompUsa is selling a 160 gig HD for $70.00.

Is that a good deal?

 

[Richard Urban]

Sounds good! I got my W.D. 160 just before Christmas for $29.95 from best
buy (after an in store rebate and a mail in rebate). Such a good deal I
bought 3 of them.

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aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

I wonder who you contact for warrantee when this "generic" drive goes bad
(-:

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


check the specs.
does not appear to be a FAST hard drive.

being that it is the GENERIC one advertised here.

IDE not EIDE, 40 pin cable not 80 pin cable, etc...

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CompUsa is selling a 160 gig HD for $70.00.

Is that a good deal?

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

It is a good deal.

They call it generic but the parameters listed are typical for the present
160GB drives.

Note: Some of the earlier drives had rotational speed of 5200 RPM and 2 M
cache. This drive is in line with the present retail 160GB drives based on
the limited information provided.

My first guess is that it is a Maxtor drive

 

[Alex Nichol]

CompUsa is selling a 160 gig HD for $70.00.

Is that a good deal?

Provided your BIOS has support for '48 bit LBA' - one from the past
couple of years probably does. older ones may need an update or even on
really old motherboards a separate controller card. And XP must be at
least at SP1. Then partition and format from the disk management of XP,
not externally. Otherwise only the first 137 GB (128 binary measure)
will be accessible at all.

 

[Trent©]

It is a good deal.

They call it generic but the parameters listed are typical for the present
160GB drives.

Note: Some of the earlier drives had rotational speed of 5200 RPM and 2 M
cache. This drive is in line with the present retail 160GB drives based on
the limited information provided.

My first guess is that it is a Maxtor drive

Why would Maxtor manufacture drives...for themselves...and then farm
them out?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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[Jon_Hildrum]

Quite a few manufacturer provides items they sell under their own brandname
for a suggested retail price.

They also distribute the drive with another name or as generic thru certain
outlets at a lower price.

I do not know this is the case here.

 

[Trent©]

Quite a few manufacturer provides items they sell under their own brandname
for a suggested retail price.

They also distribute the drive with another name or as generic thru certain
outlets at a lower price.

I do not know this is the case here.

Then why start the rumor?


Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!