Fry's question

[Sprinklerhead]

How much are small cheap hard drives going for now days? I'm probably asking for too much for something as small as a 20 gig drive.

[hayabusafiend]

Fry's online = www.outpost.com

[HeavenzJai]

you can get a 160GB HD for $20 after rebate. if u pricematch a western digital 160 from sams club to circuit city, and circuit city has 2 rebates on that same hard drive making it $20

(whistles...)

[donoman]

I don't think they even sell 20gigs anymore.

You can get a 80gb for 36$ sometimes at Fry's after a small rebate.

[Gragorin]

Hey Thatch, I have a 40 GB Quantum Fireball Plus 7200 that I'm not using. How does, what, $20 sound?

[Sprinklerhead]

Originally posted by Gragorin
Hey Thatch, I have a 40 GB Quantum Fireball Plus 7200 that I'm not using. How does, what, $20 sound?

You've got a deal.

[JackTheTripper]

Barf ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup

[Sprinklerhead]

Rocks out with it's cock out?

[l8nighthype]

Screw Fry's man...stay away. Restocks and faulty components a-plenty. I have suffered more than twice and you'd think I learned my lesson.

www.zipzoomfly.com
www.newegg.com

ZoomFly does free 2 day on just about everything and returns are pretty easy if ever you need to. Their CS is not bad, in my experience.

[assnelbo]

Originally posted by l8nighthype
Screw Fry's man...stay away. Restocks and faulty components a-plenty. I have suffered more than twice and you'd think I learned my lesson.

www.zipzoomfly.com
www.newegg.com

ZoomFly does free 2 day on just about everything and returns are pretty easy if ever you need to. Their CS is not bad, in my experience.

Frys is a good place to buy cheap software, and occasionally other items.

If you actually find a good deal on something that's not all fucked up, then they try to pull tyhe bait and switch. For instance, I bought a HP 3740 for like $35.00. I get there, they have none fo them on the shelf. They have these signs recommending you buy a more expensive printer, which isn't a great buy, and of course is on the shelf in excess. I have to practically hold an employee at gunpoint to get their attention once they see that I'm looking at the cheap printer, and then of course they BS around for a minute, and finally go get my printer from the back, where they doubltess have plenty in stock.

I have also had them try to sell me refurbished stuff without being upfront. At the store in Fremont, I talked about the same MB with 3 employees before one of them told me that it was refurbished. :mad

I bought a warranty (extra) on a harddrive years ago. (It was a 6.4 GB and that was cool back then, to give you an idea.) the fucker crashed about 5 months later (so glad that's become such ararity these days), and since I had the warranty, I took it back. They dicked me around for over and hour until I was irate, then they gave me a new one, but kept the box because I no longer had the box for mine. Now, why would they need the box, unless they were going to low level format the drive that crashed, put it in the box from the drive they gave me, and sell it again???? Surely, they don't need the box to return to the factory?

[assnelbo]

Originally posted by HeavenzJai
you can get a 160GB HD for $20 after rebate. if u pricematch a western digital 160 from sams club to circuit city, and circuit city has 2 rebates on that same hard drive making it $20

(whistles...)

Let me just say that I will never buy a Western Digital. There is a reason why they sell them for so cheap. I recommend Maxtor drives. Not usually as easy to find a s good of a deal on them, but sometimes, you get what you pay for...

[Liquid-R1]

Originally posted by assnelbo

I have also had them try to sell me refurbished stuff without being upfront. At the store in Fremont, I talked about the same MB with 3 employees before one of them told me that it was refurbished. :mad


WHen you saw MB, I assume you mean Motherboard? Cuz if you do, they don't carry refurb Motherboards...

[assnelbo]

Originally posted by Liquid-R1
WHen you saw MB, I assume you mean Motherboard? Cuz if you do, they don't carry refurb Motherboards...

This was quite some time ago, with the MB... Maybe they don't now, and maybe they didn't then, but that is not what was communicated to me, at the time. There was no sticker on it, as you will usually see with refurbished products, so perhaps it was a returned item, that was not actually sent back to the factory. The point is: they were selling me something as new, and it was not new.

[Liquid-R1]

All items that are returned complete and working are put back on the floor, and SHOULD have a sticker on it stating the return... That's the nature of the beast when you have a very lax return policy... If I had it my way, returns on computer part would be 15 days and there would be a restocking fee like everyone else has... But since they don't, you get every Joe that thinks they can build a computer trying. In the end run, they end up screwing it up and just returning it... I'd bet you'd see a lot less returned items if they had a stricter return policy...

[RydTher]

Originally posted by assnelbo
Let me just say that I will never buy a Western Digital. There is a reason why they sell them for so cheap. I recommend Maxtor drives. Not usually as easy to find a s good of a deal on them, but sometimes, you get what you pay for...

In the time I have been messing with PCs I have used/am using WD, Maxtor and IBM drives.

The ONLY drives to not have failed at one point or another have been the WD drives. Still have a 1.2GB WD drive around here somewhere.

Every maker will have a bad day. My WDs have worked well. I will stick with them.

[zefflyn]

Originally posted by assnelbo
Let me just say that I will never buy a Western Digital. There is a reason why they sell them for so cheap. I recommend Maxtor drives. Not usually as easy to find a s good of a deal on them, but sometimes, you get what you pay for...

That's funny, because I had the opposite experience. Bought a maxtor 20 gig (few years ago), ran the included low-level format utility, it marked almost the entire drive as bad sectors. Exchanged it, the next drive was half-bad.

Exchanged that one for a WD 40-gig, and it's still running. I've bought two more WD drive since then with good results.

[assnelbo]

Originally posted by zefflyn
That's funny, because I had the opposite experience. Bought a maxtor 20 gig (few years ago), ran the included low-level format utility, it marked almost the entire drive as bad sectors. Exchanged it, the next drive was half-bad.

Exchanged that one for a WD 40-gig, and it's still running. I've bought two more WD drive since then with good results.

Why did you run the low level format?

[zefflyn]

The instructions that came with the drive said to do it.

[Sane_Man]

Seems like it would have taken 20-30 hours to do a low-level format on a 40 gig drive.

[zefflyn]

The Maxtor was a 20, and yep, I left and came back a few times.

[Hyperlite]

Western Digitals used to be the ones to get but all the ones I've seen lately have been failing miserably. The funny thing- maxtor's used to be garbage but they seem to hold up the best now-a-days. IBM's/Hitachi's are hit and miss, worth looking into if the deal's right. Seagates/Quantums seem to be pretty good too but they aren't as popular for some reason.

[assnelbo]

Originally posted by zefflyn
The instructions that came with the drive said to do it.

Wow. You should never run a low level format unless you absolutely must. When you get a new hard drive, you should only have to partition it and format it. I still have a maxtor 20 gig that runs great...

[l8nighthype]

Originally posted by assnelbo
Wow. You should never run a low level format unless you absolutely must. When you get a new hard drive, you should only have to partition it and format it. I still have a maxtor 20 gig that runs great...

No doubt...and I repeat; Fry's sux!

:teeth

Besides, I like sitting on my ass pointing and clicking and having things delivered to my door...their software is outrageously priced too, so I really would only go there for certain emergencies, occasional tools, maybe media and that is about it.

[HeavenzJai]

I did use to like maxtors, but after my 200gb one started to fail (under 2 yrs of usage) , luckily i was only 1yr 10months on my factory warrenty and they sent me a 250gb one in exchange. they have a 2year warrenty starting from "birth" date. fry's usually has them on sale often.

i would go w/ IBM & WD for HD's.
if u check out the sunday or friday paper for fry's sale on hard drives cause they have sales all the time.
and when you do buy ANYTHING from fry's make sure it doesnt look "odd" like they had to rewrap it or anything.