Western Digital 250GB HD £79.99!!

Malestrom

Available at ALDI stores from 13th January, this is a steal!




Simply upgrade your existing computer, by following the clear installation instructions, with this fantastic Western Digital 250Gb internal hard disk drive. Ideal for those computer users who have ever-increasing amounts of information to store like digital photos and digital videos

• Product comes complete with full telephone support
• Manufacturer's three year warranty
• Compatible with most computers
• 250 giga byte internal hard disc drive.
• 7200 rpm
• 2 MB Cache
• 80 GB per pallet for state-of-the-art area density
• Ultra ATA/100- for up to 100 MB/s transfer rates
• Fluid Dynamic Bearings for noise sensitive computing environments.

Actual page here

Aletank

They are for sale on E-Buyer for £103 http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=55242

Malestrom

Yeeeeeeees...i know...I checked Ebuyer, Dabs and Aria before posting to make sure this was actually a bargain. Why are you posting a link to the same product for an extra £23???

Aletank

Yeeeeeeees...i know...I checked Ebuyer, Dabs and Aria before posting to make sure this was actually a bargain. Why are you posting a link to the same product for an extra £23???

When I seen it I thought it was cheap, so looked to see how cheap it was. Just thought I'd let others know how much of a bargain it is - saves them goin lookin like you did, then i did - lol

alanobrien

Excellent spot ;D

May well be sitting outside the reading branch on the 13th
waiting for it to open.

bleugh

Yeeeeeeees...i know...I checked Ebuyer, Dabs and Aria before posting to make sure this was actually a bargain. Why are you posting a link to the same product for an extra £23???

Heh, why then didnt YOU post the link to aria and dabs to corroborate, since the guy so kindly posted the ebuyer link!

discodown

Just be aware that the cache on this is only 2mb which is small, 8mb is the accepted norm now really, also that your pc may not recognise a hd above 137gb!

George_Bray

your pc may not recognise a hd above 137gb!

What determines whether a motherboard/operating system recognises a drive above 137Gb, please?

Also, does anyone know if these high capacity drives are far more prone to total failure than more moderate capacities, like 80Gb? Losing, say, 5% of the capacity due to bad sectors wouldn't be too bad, but is the whole drive a bit risky?

Regards
George

blinky

Certainly 98 and higher (98 requires a patch) support >137Gb.

The motherboard BIOS must also support >137Gb HD's so you might need to update the BIOS.

lofty_2

Do Aldi limit these to 1 per customer? This deal could be very interesting!

JIT_3

I think i paid around £80 12 months ago for my WD 80GB although it does have a 8 MB cache and it's been a great drive with no problems at all.

So if you need 250 GB then this seems a good deal.