Re: [Thinkpad] OT: desktop hard drive deal

Yes they are desktop drives .
Re ATA 100 / 133........
No real diff re ATA 66 .
and a little re ATA 33
If you have the Bios support ..it's a very nice deal .
If you don't, then it can get a LOT tricker, as even with Driver Overlay software that it comes with;
..a number of Bios will not let the computer boot.
( We are talking some AMD K6 , Pentium 1 and a few < Pentium 2 -333 era boards )

The other grumble is that warranty is only 1 year .

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Bayles" <raybay@broadcast.net>
To: "thinkpad@stderr.org" <Thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: desktop hard drive deal

> The office max's in Tucson have these, but they are not laptop drives...
> regular desktop. Nice drives. But you need an ATA/100 or ATA/133 card to
> get them to run at full speed and performance. I didn't see any deals on
> Thinkpad-sized drives.
>
> Ray
>
> Deanna Berman wrote:
>
> > The OfficeMax circular for its in-store specials from 1/26/04-1/31/04 is advertising a Western Digital internal hard drive -
80G,
> > 7200 rpm, 8MB cache - for a net price of $19.99 (+ tax on the sale price of $79.99) after three OM instant/OM mail-in/WD mail-in
> > rebates aggregating $80.
> >
> > 25 ¢ a gig!
> >
> > Note that this offer is not available on the OM website. Also, if I'm reading the various bits of rebate information correctly,
the
> > 120G drive will also have at least $80 in OM and WD mail-in rebates from 2/1/04-2/7/04, but until the new ad comes out on the
30th,
> > I cannot tell if OM will also offer an instant rebate to sweeten that deal.
> >
> > These are certainly not the only available rebates on WD drives; I just picked out the ones with the greatest proportional
impacts
> > on current prices.
> >
> > Deanna
> > dberman@4dv.net
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