Western Digital Caviar 250GB IDE $55 shipped

CordialSpam · 12-05-05, 12:02 AM

Western Digital Caviar 250GB Hard Drive
$49.99+ $5 shipping

www.woot.com

Aidenswarrior · 12-05-05, 12:04 AM

too bad it is 2mb cache, still a great deal though.

Aphex_Tom_9 · 12-05-05, 12:09 AM

2mb cache, yuck!

magick_man · 12-05-05, 12:15 AM

meh it'll work good enough for a storage drive

and it came out to 59.xx shipped

i feel so giddy, it is my first woot

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Nathan0490 · 12-05-05, 12:24 AM

$59 shipped? should be $5 for shipping... hmm.. $55 shipped weird.

daniel_dynasty · 12-05-05, 12:28 AM

tax?

Quaxor · 12-05-05, 12:40 AM

Just ordered one in preparation of getting an xbox for x-mas.

CordialSpam · 12-05-05, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Quaxor

Just ordered one in preparation of getting an xbox for x-mas.

I am still thinking of getting one of these HD and an xbox at same time..but I do not have a xbox..don't feel like getting one for $100ish dollars...damn

magick_man · 12-05-05, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by daniel_dynasty

tax?

yeah there was 4.xx in tax + 5 shipping brought it to 59.xx

~Magick_Man~

heezer7 · 12-05-05, 12:57 AM

For me there is just something about buying a refurb Hd... Great deal though!

crimedog · 12-05-05, 01:09 AM

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=158397

godofgorks · 12-05-05, 01:11 AM

bought the bullet and bit the woot....

CordialSpam · 12-05-05, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by crimedog

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=158397

but no one ever check that thread..I only post some deals on computer stuffs..O well I guess I'll post woot's deal in that thread in the future.

heezer7 · 12-05-05, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by CordialSpam

but no one ever check that thread..I only post some deals on computer stuffs..O well I guess I'll post woot's deal in that thread in the future.

yeah, I don't like it either. I for one never check the thread, but their rules are rules... Oh well. Still sucks it was a refurb. I would have bought a bunch of them for a raid 5 storage box.

EvilCloudStrife · 12-05-05, 03:43 AM

im glad this has its own thread. its worthy enough I say. good find. Im really thinking about this one

by the way - referb hard drives go through alot more tests then normal hard drives after then have been referbished just to make sure they wont die. Honestly, i trust them way more then a normal retail hard drive. This is just me though. and they are cheaper!

KGH · 12-05-05, 05:18 AM

i wonder what is the manufacture date on those drives.

telexen · 12-05-05, 08:13 AM

I'd pick one up if I hadn't ordered that 300gb Maxtor SATA from Fry's for $90

...which I'm still waiting for

brickout · 12-05-05, 08:26 AM

I got two for $104.98 with shipping!
My first woot as well, and I couldn't pass up .5TB for $100...2mb cache isn't great, but I need space more than performance, and as a poor graduate student, this fits the bill.

Woot!

g0dM@n · 12-05-05, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by brickout

I got two for $104.98 with shipping!
My first woot as well, and I couldn't pass up .5TB for $100...2mb cache isn't great, but I need space more than performance, and as a poor graduate student, this fits the bill.

Woot!

Ditto on first and 2nd sentence.

How much of a performance gain is there really from 2mb cache to 8mb cache? I never really saw it... can someone explain where you would see the difference... like loading a game or something?

brickout · 12-05-05, 09:20 AM

I thought the gains were to be had primarily in games. Not in the initial loading, but intermittent texture loading and things like that.

I need mine just for mass storage, so sustained read/write is more important than large data caching.

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