Is it me or are hard drives just dirt cheap?

[On the Lam]

I found on the net a 20.5Gb WD hdd can be had for $222 CAN...9 months ago I paid more than that for my 6.4...

Cheap, cheap, cheap!

[jad1097]

You can get a Maxtor 27.8gig for $199 @ CompUSA w/photoshop LE! Now that is a deal!

[This message has been edited by jad1097 (edited 01-24-2000).]

[bdog]

What do you do with 40 gigs? I am sure some specialized things use that much space, but that is about 4 times what an average person needs. It is a good deal though, just can't see buying it then only using 15 to 20 percent of it.

[CMonster]

SHHHHH!!!!!!! ..otherwise there will be hard drive shortage next... remember what happened with RAM?

[jad1097]

Bdog I changed the 40 gig drive cause I could not find the ad for it. But with 40gigs I would spend a week making Mp3's.
As CM said SHHHHHHHHH!

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

I have a 6.4 gig and I have 4 gig of free space. I have yet to understand how ppl fill a 20 gig H.D. at home. Then again I save everything to cd-rom. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Jim

[Wiz]

I have a 15 gig filled to 3/4 capacity. Mp3's and game will do that to you =].

[bdog]

Avg mp3 is 4 mb. 40 gigs would hold 10,000 mp3's. Thats a lot of tunes!!!! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[alan]

i remember when i paid nearly £200 for a conner 112mb h/d for my first pc many moons ago suppose thats about $360 ish
unlike ram h/d's will continue to fall all the while the media is wanted when new storage facility's arrive the price of h/d's will rise as the amount of the new storage falls? maybe? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Banti]

When will SCSI fall? I want to finish converting my system to SCSI but the drives are too much $$$$$...


Banti

[Mntsnow]

Banti,

Unfortuatly I dont see SCSI prices falling all that much as they are still concidered a "business/corporate" type of hardware. Thus they will always command a higher price http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif Well I just got thru adding up the harddrive storage space on my network here at home and have a WHOPPING 85 gigs of space! Actually using about 23-25 gigs of it at this moment http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I have had up to about 47-50 gigs on the network a few weeks ago when I was doing some imaging and renderings.

Mntsnow

[george56]

Very cheap
I remember when I paid $2422.00 for
a 26 MB hd...Many years ago, but then
again I've been around the field so long
I remember when we programmed by hard-wiring
George

[alien_from_io]

Wow, George... anyway, I got a Maxtor 27 gb at www.OfficeDepot.com (http://www.OfficeDepot.com) for $199, now they have a WD 13,5 7200rpm for $119. And been getting Kingston 64 pc 100 for $72-85, Kingston 128 $158 at www.buy.com (http://www.buy.com) ,, Take me to your leader.

[deep_sky]

to answer banti's question about scsi...

when fiber channel hardware becomes the rage....hopefully.

[jad1097]

Well I do have 600 or so cd's,records and tapes. Lets see average cd has 8 songs 8X600=4800 songs. About 20gigs in mp3's. Another 20 for Win98/Millenium,Win2000,Linux and of course BEOS. Sounds about right to me. I need one!
But would not burn but 200 or so albums.
That 27gig would be just fine with me for $200.

[This message has been edited by jad1097 (edited 01-25-2000).]

[SysOpt]

You would be surprised at how quickly an HD gets filled up when you're into digital video editing. 40gb can be used pretty easily. Though, SCSI lends itself better for that.

[RBurton]

Two weeks ago, Best Buy advertised a 20gig and a $50 gift card (by mail) for $149, making it $99 net.

[noresull]

MAN!!! Now I feel like I didn't get a good deal! I paid $113.00 for a maxtor 13.0GB HDD just before christmas! I hate buying computer stuff, it gets so outdated so quick!!

Anyway, anybody know where I can get 32MB PC100 SDRAM for less than $100.00? (shipping and handling included)

[bdog]

http://192.216.185.10/mwave/ProdMUL-DIMM.hmx?UID=&CID=&updepts=MR&DNAME=%3Cb%3EMemory%3C%2Fb%3E&Back=ProdMUL-DIMM.hmx?

you can get 32mb for $40 or 64mb for $75
lifetime warranty
shipping is very reasonable
great service

[hai]

I got a Maxtor 27.2GB for $136 including shipping from valueamerica.com. It's filled up in one month. Mainly by VCDs. Current HDs are simply not large enough for VCDs which usually take 1.3GB per movie.

[alien_from_io]

Noreskull,, check www.buy.com (http://www.buy.com) get Kingston value RAM less than a c note,, get a 64pc100 stick for $85.95 with a $15 rebate. Take me to your leader.