On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:36:16PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Jeff Simpson wrote: > > >I know not everyone likes the idea of rebates, but here's a 160GB WD > >drive for $30 for those that do. It's only available for pick-up from > >CompUSA stores, so check their site for availability at your local > >store first. > > > >http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?&ref=cj&pfp=cj&product_code=298017 > > > > > That's hilarious. I bought the exact same drive from CompUSA for the > same $30 after rebate on Sunday. The only difference was that it was > delivery only (so I had to spend $20 more to get the $0.01 shipping).
Great price, but these days you start running into limits on how many drives you can put in a system, due to bays, IDE controllers and power. (Though you can buy external usb boxes for more than the post-rebate cost of this drive.) I've thus come to the conclusion that I can't afford a drive as small as 160gb, even if it's effectively free like this one! That's a 21st century moment. Perhaps somebody should make a low priced external USB case that holds 4 EIDE drives on usb-2, just for video arrays. With video arrays you really don't care a lot about the bandwidth limitations that would give you, a video stream only needs about 20 megabits for ordinary play and record, though more for commercial scan/transcode of course. Right now such cases would cost a fair bit more than this drive.
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