Is this real?

dreIU

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• Jun 21, 2006

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http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-3681

I didn't know 160gb raptors existed (just 34, 74, and 150). Is it too good to be true? I mean, for that price, it would be silly not to get one. The 150's go for well over $250 on newegg.

 

soulfly1448

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• Jun 21, 2006

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Dell has been advertising 160GB raptors for a few months now. Perhaps they've a deal with WD.

 

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• Jun 21, 2006

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The link is dead so I would guess it was a mistake.

-Rav

 

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The 160GB Dell Raptors do exist, as do 80GB units. I suppose it's all due to differences in marketing - Dell wants them to be sized more like consumer SATA drives, while WD wants them to be sized more like SCSI units.

 

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dreIU

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link is not dead TRY THIS

it's now 180, but there was a coupon this morning that brought it down to 150.

EDIT: C99$273GQ1L4W8 was the coupn, but it now only drops it down to 170. Is this the same thing as the 150Gig raptor advertised elsewhere?

 

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Well, in fact, a 160GB raptor is a 150GB with the "marketing" way of counting bytes. 160 000 000 000 bytes comes down to about 152 GB, same as 80 000 000 000 bytes makes aroung 74GB for a computer...

Don't get fooled... Dell crap...

 

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dreIU

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FeuerFrei said:

Well, in fact, a 160GB raptor is a 150GB with the "marketing" way of counting bytes. 160 000 000 000 bytes comes down to about 152 GB, same as 80 000 000 000 bytes makes aroung 74GB for a computer...

Don't get fooled... Dell crap...

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I see... I definitely wasn't drooling over the "extra" 10gigs, I was just amazed by the price tag. I mean, with that discount it cost as much as a 74Gb raptor

 

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• Jun 21, 2006

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I snagged one. Thanks for the heads up.

 

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FeuerFrei said:

Well, in fact, a 160GB raptor is a 150GB with the "marketing" way of counting bytes. 160 000 000 000 bytes comes down to about 152 GB, same as 80 000 000 000 bytes makes aroung 74GB for a computer...

Don't get fooled... Dell crap...

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The Dell-distributed Raptors are larger than their WD-badged siblings. Read the WD tech specs, they list the Raptor's capacity as 150,039MB with the footnote disclaimer of "1 gigabyte (GB)=1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment."

(150.039 * 1,000,000,000) / 2^30 = 139.73...

Don't think for a second Dell is doing something WD doesn't do every second, other than giving you more space for less dollars.

 

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• Jun 21, 2006

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Ya, and only the 1 yr. warranty.. I cancelled my order when I got a confirmation on the warranty.. Pay the extra for the 4 more years of warranty.