Actually it was this one:

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/posting.ph ... 16229a322c

But it's since gone up by $10. I sure am glad I got them at $88!!!

Thats not a useful URl, you included too much stuff specific to your session.

actually I pasted the wrong URL altogether That mas my KnoppMyth forum url. Here's the right one:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getp ... rid=607712

Western Digital 250GB WD2500JBRTL UATA100 8MB Buffer

$ 154.99 - $55 rebate = $99

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3620115

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These days NewEgg seems to continuously have either the Western Digital or Seagate 200Gb 8mb 7200rpm EIDE drives at ~$0.55/Gb and a quick visit to PriceGrabber may turn up even better prices. Even the 250Gb drives are starting to appear in the <$0.50/Gb range on sale. I can hardly wait until the 400Gb drives now on the market become the new price "sweet spot".

And to think, I used to wonder how in the world you would ever fill a 20Gb disk!

oh come on now is that as far back as you can remember? I remember when my stepfather bought a 10Mb HD for his Compaq Transportable for about $500 and I though it was way overkill and there's no way you could fill it up.

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Have a question search the forum and have a look at the KnoppMythWiki.

Xsecrets

I still remember a campus tour when I was looking at colleges where one of the professors was showing off a new mini/micro which had a whole 16K of RAM! It could hold up to 64K but what in the world would you do with it all? I don't remember now if it was an DEC LSI-11 or an IMSAI 8080, but I do remember that it had a real front panel with lots of lights and toggle switches. This was also the era of 8" SS/SD floppies that were really floppy.

I think the first "small" HD I saw was a very expensive full height 5-1/4" which held all of 5mb...

I'd also suggest keeping an eye on Outpost.com. They tend to have a lot of decent sized drives with good rebates available. There's a Seagate 160 gig this week for $50 after a $50 rebate. That's $0.31/gig...which sounds pretty good to me, especially since I've read that Seagate's tend to be quiet drives.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3983238

at outpost.com $160 - $60 rebate ($.4/GB)

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not the cheapest...but maybe the biggest

Barracuda 7200.8 400GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/100

$279.99 no rebate - free shipping

.70 / GB

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316153&pfp=srch1

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

Hmm, 1.2TB RAID-5 for $1120.

Granted, a little much to spend for a PVR, but it'd be awfully nice.

EDIT: seen, but out-of-stock, for $240 in a few places. Prices might be coming down soon?

-brendan

Combine this with about $500 for parts and you can build a system for less than the cost of a prebuilt XP MCE PC!

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I can't tell if that's tongue-in-cheek (joking about the ridiculous $$$s spent on PVR functionality), or you're actually agreeing that for what you pay the big guys for a consumer-level MS MCE, you can put together a data-center level TV storage monster using KnoppMyth and parts...

-brendan

PS - oh yeah...and a super-big-thanks for working on KnoppMyth, cesman. Seriously. It rules. I punched a hole in my firewall for a bit today, just demoing some west coast friends the MythWeb interface and they were suitably impressed (and I'd never have gotten than running had I had to configure everything manually). To clarify: they were impressed with the software, but not so much my TV choices.

I wasn't being tongue in cheek at all. Thanks!

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Yee-haa!!! $0.50/Gb for one of the new, big, fast, quiet Seagate 400Gb drives. I may have no choice but to go out and get myself an early xmas present!

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316153&pfp=srch1