April 15, 201115 yr Newegg is once again doing the $25 off $100 for new customers. I used this 2 weeks ago to build my unRAID server. Use code "NEWTAX25" at checkout. HITACHI Deskstar 3TB $115 shipped from Newegg Price: $140 Discount: $25 (create new account and apply coupon NEWTAX25 at checkout) Free shipping Final price: $115 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145493
April 15, 201115 yr Was just getting ready to post this! LOL I just may open an account in my wife's name! John
April 15, 201115 yr Author Was just getting ready to post this! LOL I just may open an account in my wife's name! John Last time I used my same name/address/payment method and it all worked.
April 15, 201115 yr OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ($124.99) $124.99 - 25.00 -------- $ 99.99 - 15.00 MIR --------- $ 84.00 + Free Shipping Appreciate it! It wouldn't allow the 10% off SSD drives combination, tried 20 ways to Sunday. But.. $84 for a 60GB SSD that I've been eyeballing to replace the WD 160GB blue in one of my HTPC's, is good enough for me!
April 15, 201115 yr Author ^^ Just an FYI, that model will almost certainly use the newer 25nm chips making it a slower drive with less read/write cycles plus less formatted space due to provisioning.
April 15, 201115 yr ^^ Just an FYI, that model will almost certainly use the newer 25nm chips making it a slower drive with less read/write cycles plus less formatted space due to provisioning. Slower drive than what? Sequential Access - Read up to 285MB/s Sequential Access - Write up to 275MB/s
April 15, 201115 yr Author It doesn't actually do 285/275. That's why people have been so pissed. OCZ changed the components of the item and didn't change the part number. So, different item, same part number. Newegg also carries the 34nm drives for more money. Pretty sheisty on OCZ's part, and it's difficult to keep track of all the different drives they now have floating all over the place. If it has an "E" in the part number on Newegg, it likely uses the newer 25nm chips.
April 15, 201115 yr Any idea what they -are- doing then? Trying to google this now. <shrug> If it doesnt do as advertised, then full refund with shipping paid for by Newegg. If not, then chargeback. I turn into a downright evil person when I feel I've been ripped off in any way.
April 15, 201115 yr Author Any idea what they -are- doing then? Trying to google this now. <shrug> If it doesnt do as advertised, then full refund with shipping paid for by Newegg. If not, then chargeback. I turn into a downright evil person when I feel I've been ripped off in any way. For a while OCZ was exchanging the 25nm drives for the 34nm drives and paying shipping both ways, but I don't know if they're still doing that. Even the 34nm drives likely will only do 285/280 under very specific conditions and not under real world use. This goes for any and all electronics ever made But for an HTPC, you won't need anything fast. Mine is running on an old school hard drive with a P4 which is over 15 years old.
April 15, 201115 yr Where you actually able to get he $25 off of $124.99 for the OCZ drive? I tried the same thing for some G.Skill 8 GB DDR3 for $124.99 but I could not get the $25 to apply because it appears that would drop my total below $100. Either that or because there was a free 2GB Kingston USB drive included with the RAM as a promo and so I could not stack the $25 discount on top.
April 15, 201115 yr Author ^^ The total must be $100 before you apply the coupon. In the past, it did not work with combo deals, and I assume the free flash drive is counted as a combo deal.
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