hard drive prices

[shocksyde]

anyone know the cheapest price for a ~20 gig 7200 rpm hard drive? i prefer western digital...or is there a better brand? thanks...the best price i've found so far is 158 shipped.

shocksyde

[fvay]

buy.com has quantum 20 Gb 7200 for 153.99 use it with 39.99 off coupon from www.techbargains.com (http://www.techbargains.com) and drive comes with $20 mail in rebate. so u get the hard drive below $100

[shocksyde]

thanks fvay, but when i went to techbargains.com they had no 39.99 coupon for buy.com

[Nixona]

I hope I don't get flamed..but Quantum's arent the BEST drive around. I know everybody has had trials and tribs with every brand known to man, but for the money Maxtor is the one to get. it's the leader of the pack in my book. I'd also wait as long as you possibly can, as the new pups come out (60 and 75 gb) the prices for the smaller drives will start dropping. I can't believe I just called a 20 gb a smaller drive. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[TOAD6147]

I was probably the one and only to get to use two coupons at Office Max but here's a $25-off-$100 purchase (coupon code: mayd3) and there's always free shipping on anything over $50 order. Maxtor 20.4 had been $149.95. I got my last one for $109.95 at my door. Ah, those were the days!
PS I wouldn't touch Quantum again with a ten foot pole!

[This message has been edited by TOAD6147 (edited 06-17-2000).]

[dhallgar]

Somone down at the local Pub that ATA 100
drives have began coming on the market, some have already shipped. I wonder if they are worth waiting for?

[Nixona]

There's rumor that all Maxtor UDMA66 drives have always been 100. The new 100's maxtor is shipping out have the same serial numbers as the 66's with a firmware upgrade. There was something about keeping it quite because another company (Quantum?) had rights to the ATA100 stuff. Actually, I just found the link http://www.maxtor.com/technology/technotes/21009.html
Check it out.