Review Western Digital Caviar WD2500KS: The WD2500KS is built on an older platform, evidenced most clearly by its less dense, 83-gigabyte platters. It nonetheless offers above-average performance and manages to capture the number one slot in the Office DriveMark as well as our World of Warcraft trace. The drive's idle noise floor is not nearly as loud as objective measurements may suggest. It also offers the coolest overall operation of all drives in the roundup. The Caviar is the only review drive that does not offer NCQ - while this is no drawback in single-user applications, the drive's scores suffer under multi-user patterns.
I bought the Western Digital 3200KS a couple days ago (was around $95 with $10 rebate and $5.64 shipping).
As I was going through checkout, it said price included a 1 year subscription to PC Mag. Option to cancel was there and there were forms to request a refund of $9.97 from Ziff Davis.
If that refund goes through, net cost would be around $80. Not bad.
Ther 300 Gb mighht've been if it was a a SATA drive
undertow
Member
posted: Sep. 1, 2006 @ 8:15a
Fish said: Its none of my business but I think this is a better deal with 5 years warranty. Seagate Barracuda Perpendicular 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s This is especially nice because it's the new 7200.10 drive which is getting nice reviews (although some drives appear to be noisier than others). Use promo code "buybarracuda" to get an additional $5 off so it's $89.99 shipped. Also, make sure you change the jumper if you've got a 300 mb/s capable system because it ships set to 150 mb/s.
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