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31 March 2007

Just bought a 250 GB drive for $80 and now I am migrating my collection of 80+ mp3 CD-ROMs into one consolidated directory. Oh, happy day! I will buy a back-up drive next month; a terabyte for less than $300, whoda thunkit.

post by: mischief at: 15:34 | 12 comments

I was just discussing getting one of those to back up the tunes collection. that does look like a good deal.

posted by jonmc 31 March | 15:35

Hunt around the Office Maxes and Circuit Citys, jon. You should be able to find a good deal and a mail-in rebate.

posted by mischief 31 March | 16:07

Is that a good one to get, mischief? I need one too, but I've read horror stories about people who buy off-brands or somesuch, then lose all their data. The price sure is right, though.

posted by mudpuppie 31 March | 16:08

$80 would have been a good price a year ago. Now you can get them for $65 (PATA) to $67 (SATA). But an even better deal is 400GB SATA for $100 - that's 26 cents per GB.

Use the RTPE to find these.

posted by Rhomboid 31 March | 16:25

And of course you can put these in any standard external USB/firewire enclosure for another $10 - $20.

posted by Rhomboid 31 March | 16:26

mudpuppie: Western Digital is not an off-brand. In fact, chances are good that every (non-Japanese) hard drive you have ever owned was Western Digital. If not, it was probably Seagate.

What Rhomboid describes are internal replacement drives and yes, they can be much cheaper. However, I have a laptop with a fairly new replacement drive already, and I wanted an external box without having to mess with enclosures.

posted by mischief 31 March | 18:14

I got a 500GB Maxtor external drive the other day.

posted by matildaben 31 March | 18:56

I am thinking of picking up two of the 400GB Samsung drives that newegg has right now.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 31 March | 19:57

For 99 bucks.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 31 March | 20:02

Thanks for the info, mischief!

posted by mudpuppie 31 March | 20:29

I like Samsung drives. They're quiet, and they can easily be made to be even quieter. I'm daydreaming about buying one of those Linksys NSLU2s.

posted by box 31 March | 21:36

There's no actual difference between the bare HD and what's inside the enclosure, they are the same thing. It's always cheaper to buy a standard HD and then just drop it in an enclosure.

posted by Rhomboid 01 April | 20:50

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