Western Digital Customer Loyalty Program, Free Shipping

[Silversinksam]

Found this info here (http://www.pricenetwork.ca/forum/showthread.php?threadid=55559), Seems like a good deal.

How?
Call 1-800-275-4932 option 4 for Loyalty services, then 1 for upgrade program.

Price of drive- includes shipping
- there are no taxes
- there is no duty. Majority of drives ship from within Canada
- if charged duty WD will reimburse you
- all amounts are in USD

Shipping- via UPS Ground
- billing and shipping addresses can be different
- the drives are shipped from within Canada, however some have reported that their's came from the US (if you get charged taxes WD will reimburse you)

How many can I order?- you need a unique S/N for every drive you want. (I read that drives before 1997 may not be recorded and serial numbers older than 9 years old may be a issue)
- you can order as many drives as you want (well within reason) on one phone call as long as you have unique S/Ns for each

What drives do they have?- They have over 30 different models available. the popular ones in this thread are the 400GB SATA, 320GB SATA, and the 36GB Raptor.

WD3200JD SATA 150 MB/s 7200rpm 320gig 8.9 ms 8 MB cache $89
WD2500JD SATA 150 MB/s 7200 250 8.9 ms 8 MB $65
WD3200JB EIDE 100 MB/s 7200 320 8.9 ms 8 MB $97
WD2500JB EIDE 100 MB/s 7200 250 8.9 ms 8 MB $65
WD4000KD SATA 150 MB/s 7200 400 8.9 ms 16 MB $143
WD2500SB EIDE 100 MB/s 7200 250 8.9 ms 8 MB $77
WD360GD SATA 1.5 Gb/s 10,000 36 4.5 ms 8 MB $82

New drive comes with warranty (3 yrs/5 yrs for Raptor's)

Also see:
https://websupport.wdc.com/store/upgrade/products.asp

How much are they?- See above
- For other drives simply call them or email them and they will tell you if its available and how much they are.

S/N- you need a S/N from a WD drive
- you do not need to send in the old drive
- any warrenty on the old drive will be invalidated
- drives w/o any warrenty is valid
- To get the s/n off of a drive in your machine you can use WD's Datalifeguard tools:

When will it end?
- No set date. It's not a sale but an ongoing customer loyalty program. WD can terminate it at any time, however its been in operation for quite a while now.

This is where the info originated from:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3254036&postcount=262

[g0dM@n]

So you get a small discount and free shipping for doing this?

[Sweekz]

EIDE? = PATA?

[veryhumid]

EIDE? = PATA?

yup :thup:

This is a pretty cool idea, I'm going to see if any of my drives don't have any warranty left.

[Sweekz]

just called
WD2500JB EIDE 100 MB/s 7200 250 8.9 ms 8 MB $65

is 82 bucks

i even asked for the WD2500JB too

[LandShark]

it's been out for a little while. I've called about a week or two ago. they had jack up the price for the drives that making it not much cheaper (if at all) then buying it online.... e.g. I think it's like raptor is 120-130, not 82 as adversited earlier. so I skipped it...

[osiris999]

this has been on xs also for some time.

[Slayer2003]

I think I'd rather pay the extra few dollars, buy from NewEgg, and keep the existing waranty on my current drives. ;)

[bumsquad]

whoa whoa whoa. lemme get this straight raptors can transfer 1.5gb/s as opposed to a normal sata drive transfering only 150mb/s WTF? its 10 times faster? i mean this things been out for a long long time, but i never knew it transferred that much faster.

[scoobydoo]

Isnt 1.5Gb/s and 150MB/s the same thing?

[moho]

i think that 1.5Gb/s is actually about 187 MB/s

[bumsquad]

i think that 1.5Gb/s is actually about 187 MB/s

o wat i thought it was actually gigabytes compared to megabytes. NVM :shrug:

[dicecca112]

not much of a deal seeing you can get a Used Raptor 36Gb for around 50$ and up. At least i have seen a few

[skou]

I just checked out a 40GB lappy HDD, using a 40 GB desktop drive that the warranty died, in 2002.

Went through.

A new 40GB lappy drive for $45, SHIPPED? Sounds like a deal for me!

Thanks, Sam! (For some reason, I keep saying that!)

steve

[cyberey66]

just called
WD2500JB EIDE 100 MB/s 7200 250 8.9 ms 8 MB $65

is 82 bucks

i even asked for the WD2500JB too

They have a WD2500SB for $64 though. Sounds like an awesome deal. If nothing better comes up, or their quantity goes down, I'll pick up one. All of my HDDs are WD, except my SCSI ones, so this deal rocks. :-)

Thanks for the info.

EDIT, the SB is the RAID edition, and I cant find a definiate answer whether this will work well in a desktop or not because of the TLER feature.