Weekly ads starting 8-20-06

[bill]

Outpost- ad starts 8-19-06

NEC 3550A (OEM) for $28 with free shipping.

Maxtor 300GB SATA for $80 with free shipping.
Seagate 250GB PATA for $80 with free shipping.
Maxtor 200GB PATA for $50 with free shipping.


Staples

Memorex 16x DVD +or-R, 50 for $15.
Memorex 52x CD-R, 50 for $10.
Memorex Music 40x CD-R, 30 for $10.

Maxtor 200GB PATA hard drive for $70. Note: see the Outpost ad...
SmartDisk FireLite 40GB portable USB hard drive for $80. The 80GB model cost $100.

Office Max

HP 16x DVD +or-R, 50 for $13.
HP 16x DVD +or-R, 25 for $8.
HP 52x CD-R, 50 for $8.

Simpletech 60GB external hard drive for $100. Power source- unknown..
SimpleTech SimpleDrive Mini 8 GB Hard Drive (USB powered) for $100
Seagate external 250GB Push-Button USB hard drive for $130.

[bill]

Best Buy

Maxell 16x DVD+or-R, 50 for $15.
Sony 8x DVD+or-R, 100 for $26.
Verbatim DVD+R lightscribe, 30 for $20.
Memorex 2.4x DVD+R DL, 50 for $80.

Pioneer DVR-S111B external writer for $100.

Seagate 120GB 8MB Cache PATA for $50.
Western Digital 320GB PATA and the 320GB SATA hard drives are on sale for $100 each.

Seagate external 750GB hard drive for $380.
Western Digital My Book 160GB External USB 2.0 Hard Drive for $90.
Western Digital Passport 60GB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive for $80. This model uses USB port for the power source..

[bill]

Office Depot

Office Depot labeled media:
75 DVD-R and 25 CD-R combo pack on spindles for $20.
75 DVD+R and 25 CD-R combo pack on spindles for $20.

Maxell DVD+or-RW, 15 for $7.
Maxell DVD+or-R, 25 for $7.
Sony Mini DVD-R, 5 for $10.

Maxtor 200GB PATA for $50 after $60 rebate.

SimpleTech 60GB Portable External USB 2.0 Hard Drive for $80 after $30 rebate.
SimpleTech 100GB Portable External USB 2.0 Hard Drive for $120 after $30 rebate.
Maxtor 200GB OneTouch™ III External Hard Drive for $90 after $90 of rebates.


Circuit City

HP 52x CD-R, 50 for $8.
HP 16x DVD+or-R, 50 for $13.

Sony DRU 820A for $60 after two $20 rebates.
Sony External DVD-RW Drive DRX-820U for $100 after $20 and $30 rebates.

All Circuit City hard drives are omitted because the rebates are in excess of $49...


CompUSA

TDK 52x CD-R, 100 for $18.
Memorex 16x printable DVD +or-R, 100 for $30.

I/O Magic LightScribe writer (model IDVD16DLS) for $60 after $20 rebate.
Sony DRX820U External USB 2.0 DL DVD+/-RW Drive for $100 after $30 rebate.

Western Digital 500GB SATA W/16MB cache for $200 after $30 rebate.
Seagate 300GB PATA W/16MB cache for $80 after $40 rebate.
Hitachi 160GB PATA W/8MB cache for $60 after $40 rebate.
Samsung 120GB (2.5 inch) PATA for $150 after $20 rebate.

Maxtor 100GB external One Touch drive, $130 after $20 rebate.
I/O Magic DataBank 200GB Hard Drive (usb 2.0) for $100 after $30 rebate.

[Ian]

Best Buy also has the Pioneer DVR-710 for $39.99 this week. No rebates. Awesome deal.

[dodecahedron]

that's a boxed version of the DVR-111D, right ? (D = no DVD-RAM).

[Ian]

Yup, but you can easily hack it into whatever version you want.

[ruderacer]

Bought one a while back for the same price at BB. Have not installed it yet; have to get an IDE card cause I ran out of space. Ian, how does one hack it? TIA.

[MonsterMan]

Anyone got a link to a review or media scans for that Pioneer driver? I've only seen the one scan posted in the media section here

Edit:
Ah, nevermind...found the DVR-111D review over at Cdfreaks. I do hate Kprobe for test results (I don't trust Lite-Ons for anything! I'll take scans from BenQ only, thanks). Even so, it looks like a great drive...and only $31.99 shipped @ newegg.

Ordered!

Now to go grab some of those Maxell 16x discs...

[Dartman]

The 111 is a nice drive and does DL better then the 1655 for me, it even does the crap Ritek DL good enough to work at 2.4x.
I put the latest buffulo 8.26L firmware on mine from the Dangerous Bros and it has auto bitsetting and does label flash now too
I use the 1655 for everything but DL now, the 111 makes disk that ALL my pickiest machines read as far as DL goes.

[MonsterMan]

Well, I went to BB to get those Maxell discs...wasn't intending to, but I grabbed one of those Pioneer burners.

DVR-710 on the box.

Drive is a DVR-111D...

Testing time!

Edited because I'm a dumb a$$ and looked at the wrong part of Infotool.
Drive can read but not write RAM media.

[Dartman]

It reads RAM out of the box but wont write ram till you do one of the hacked firmwares, like 8.26

[MonsterMan]

It reads RAM out of the box but wont write ram till you do one of the hacked firmwares, like 8.26

Well, I've already got a Samsung & LG that can write RAM. I've never used it before, though, so don't see the point.

My 18x Samsung can do 12x RAM; if I could get ahold of some 12x media, then I'd use it