Very cool at $0.50/Gb!
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| Author: | tjc [ Wed May 12, 2004 3:33 pm ] |
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I'm starting this as a generic thread for "bargains" on hard disks. This may even be a good thread to make sticky, since it's a common topic here... New Egg currently has a deal on Samsung 160Gb 7200rpm IDE, 2Mb cache drives for $94 or ~$0.58/Gb. Not the speediest drive in the world, but it's supposed to be cool and quiet, and should be plenty fast for a KnoppMyth box. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-011&depa=0 |
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| Author: | cards [ Wed May 12, 2004 4:30 pm ] |
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Best Buy has a Western Digital 250/7200/8meg cache hd for $150 after $40 rebate. They say they're sold out online, not sure if you'd be able to find one in stores... Price comes out to $0.60/gig. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri May 14, 2004 2:30 pm ] |
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Here is a one day sale from Fry's for the west coasters... http://latimes.p2ionline.com/shoppingchannel/popup/index.aspx?WebStoryID=6506066&type=cat&area=ROP&adid=1137455&pop=1 This is a really great price ($0.35 / Gb !!!) on this drive which runs quiet, cool and reasonably fast. I was happy to get it for $99.99 a month ago. Even without the rebate is still decent at $0.75 / Gb. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:39 pm ] |
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250GB 8MB-cache hard drive $130 - $0.52/Gb http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=302225&pfp=SEARCH |
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:43 am ] |
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Maxtor 120GB Internal Hard Drive, 7200 RPM 6\8Mb cache for ~$0.66/Gb with no rebates. http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?id=678808 |
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| Author: | khrusher [ Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:11 pm ] |
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http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?oid=80169&WT.mc_n=85&c=1&b=g&u=c&WT.mc_t=I Circuit city instore only 200GB $99 ($170 - $70 rebate) thru 12-June |
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:35 pm ] |
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Very cool at $0.50/Gb!
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| Author: | khrusher [ Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:11 pm ] |
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went to buy the 200GB and couldnt resist the 250GB at BestBuy for 160...more per GB but I wanted bigger 
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:06 pm ] |
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$0.64 /Gb isn't bad either and the extra space is very nice to have.
I've come to the conclusion that given sale prices, the HD space a recording uses now is cheaper than when I was buying good blank VHS tapes to record stuff. I figure $0.64/Gb * 4.4Gb is well under $3.00 for 2 hours. Archiving things to DVD is cheaper but quite a bit more work... |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri Jun 11, 2004 9:32 am ] |
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OK, add this 10% off coupon to the $160 price at Best Buy (how long was that price good?) and do even better! ~$0.58/Gb http://www.hotdealsclub.com/text/bestbuy31/bestbuy.pdf EDIT - This also says "can not be combined with other offers" and the rebate deal is just such an offer.  Oh well...
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| Author: | khrusher [ Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:51 am ] |
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after magnifing the small print Quote: Not valid on prior purchases
also it says 'External Hard Drives' |
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| Author: | tjc [ Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:29 pm ] |
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Maxtor 250GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/133 Hard Drive for $130 or $0.52/Gb at CompUSA, and without any mail in rebate nonsense! http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=302225 Also worth considering, a Samsung 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model SP1604N (only 2Mb cache however) for $90 or about $0.56/Gb at NewEgg. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-011 |
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| Author: | tjc [ Wed Jul 14, 2004 3:17 pm ] |
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Here are a couple from NewEgg: SAMSUNG 160GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model SP1604N (only 2Mb cache) - $91 ($0.56/Gb) This should be plenty fast as a data drive, and it gets mentioned as being both quiet and cool. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-011 Western Digital 250GB USB 2.0/FireWire External Hard Drive, Model WDXC2500JBRNN - $226.99 - $30 mail in rebate = $196.99 Even without the rebate $0.90/Gb is still a decent price for an external drive, with it's $0.79/Gb. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-214 |
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| Author: | TransAmGore [ Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:13 am ] |
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I recently bought a few 200GB 7200 rpm hard drives from mwave.com for $88 USD (+shipping). That's $0.44 per gig! Limit of one per customer, unfortunately. And who knows how long supplies will last? I don't know if that price is available directly on the site or only through pricegrabber.com I got 4 of them (using 3 friends as customers) and will be setting up all 4 drives in an LVM array for the big file server in the basement (6 IDE channels on the motherboard), which will also act as the repository for all MythTV recordings. That's 800GB of fast storage for about $350!!! Not too shabby... |
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:49 pm ] |
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I think this is the URL for the 200 GB drive offer he's talking about above: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=607706/ut=0c2e6aa146b3148b There are some pretty decent base prices here (pick a highly rated merchant) and an additional; $40 rebate from some of them. |
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