On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 08:47:43AM +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote: > On Fri 3 June 2005 21:59, Brad Templeton wrote: > > Even so, do you really want to fill up with drives as "small" as 160gb, > > even at just 19 cents/gigabyte. Now if you want to raid-5, such drives > > make more sense if you can buy more than one of them. > > I read this with some amusement. It if were not for Myth and it's high > demands > on disk space I would be happy with a 40Gb drive for another year or three. > > I'm currently running one myth box on a 20Gb drive (15Gb actual vid space) > and > another on the balance of a 40Gb drive (approx 20Gb). > > Over here (UK) even an 80Gb drive sells at 3x the $30 of this particular WD > 160Gb drive.. I'm currently on the lookout for bargins though and a 120/160Gb > drive would easily satisfy me.
Undertand this drive doesn't really sell for $30. That's below cost. It is subsidized by people who don't redeem the rebate, which is most of them (even in a crazy deal like this.)
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