On 6/4/02 11:32 AM, "Gerald Uhlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> huffed, and
puffed, and blew my house in and said:

> 
> What do you mean by "HD's are cheap these days"?  I must be looking in the
> wrong places for hard drives.  It seems to me that the prices are still just
> as high as ever, but you do get more gigabytes for the buck.  Most of the
> ones I look at range from $250-$400 and more.  More than I can afford.  Now
> if I could buy something smaller (around 20 gig or so) for less than $100
> and still be new, I might buy it.  So the drives aren't really cheaper, the
> gigabytes are.

You can get some 20 gig IDE drives at local stores (like Comp USA and
others) for as little as $79, although they're most usually 5400 rpm.

I got my 40 gig disk at CompUSA for about $120, and it's a 7200 rpm.


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