Big Sale

MAmuT · Post by **MAmuT** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:44 am

hey for next week compusa has a BIG SALE a 100GB WD 7200RPM for 100$ i dont know if its on every compusa on the country but here is that price

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 9:28 am

Good Lookin Out

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:06 pm

ugh, you know why they're on sale? Cuz the 100Gig versions got 33gig platters, while the 120gig and newer 80gig WD drives have 40gig platters, and ALL other competing drives also have 40gig platters.... I'd rather get a Maxtor POS than an outdated drive with ONLY 33gig platters.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:17 pm

yea heh ONLY 33gig platters

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:48 pm

Originally posted by TigerUpperCut
I'd rather get a Maxtor POS than an outdated drive with ONLY 33gig platters.

Not me. I hated Maxtor drives before, but after the past few months, I ///REALLY/// hate them now. Two years ago I setup a dial up wide area network all over my state for a day care center chain...all HP machines, top of the line professional workstations....a workstation at each branch site, and a honkin NT server at mothership to answer a bank of modems for each branch site to dial into each nite to upload data.

Last fall, one drive croaked on a workstation....past 3 months...3 more drives croaked. All Maxtors. Takes me eons to reload the OS, install this time clock/database software and config it. And they call up at the worse possible time when I'm slammed on a project to tell me another machine died.

dextrous · Post by **dextrous** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:24 pm

I'd just save a little more money and get a WD with 8 megs of cache

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 3:27 pm

$100

Im going to buy one

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 6:42 pm

Originally posted by TigerUpperCut
ugh, you know why they're on sale? Cuz the 100Gig versions got 33gig platters, while the 120gig and newer 80gig WD drives have 40gig platters, and ALL other competing drives also have 40gig platters.... I'd rather get a Maxtor POS than an outdated drive with ONLY 33gig platters.

What kind of performance differences is there?

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 1:14 am

lower density = lower substained transfer rates, goto http://www.storagereview.com and compare the reviews.

Your HD is the SLOWEST part of your computer, I wouldn't save money on it, i'll get the fastest drive possible (without going crazy of course).

All competing drives have 40gig platters like the IBM GXP120, Seagate Cuda4, and newer Maxtor drives, which is why the old 100gig WD is on sale....

By the end of the summer, Seagate will have 80gig/platter 7200rpm drives. BUT Seagates are known to have lower linear transfer rates than other drives even with the same platter density, so the boost in performance won't be THAT much. Also, Seagates have higher access times, but are silent. I can't wait for the WD 80gig/platter 8MB drive