lemonhead said:

<< come on people.....let's get the rating up on this one.....almost 7K views since yesterday and only a 43+ rating!!!! >>

Yes, please people.... vote it up!

bump, bump, bump, bump it up

nice work op, time for a new 250G

mjdeere said:

<< Mulox said:

<< I thought I saw a 300gb Maxtor for $219 AR somewhere... I will keep hunting for it, but if someone else knows, please post it here. Thanks >>

Was $219 After $50 Rebate at outpost.com, but the rebate is no longer showing, so now $269... >>

Thanks, I knew I saw it somewhere recently, and thought it might have been crapUsa (but that was in August for $229). Outpost rebate must have expired last week because this was a pretty recent deal. I am sure we will see another one, only next time it will be $199 AR.

perhaps you'd consider adding the WD raptor 36GB drive on the list, too? i know it's SATA, but you already have at least one on there, and the raptor's the highest performing non-SCSI drive out there.. i know one day i'm shooting to install it as my OS/applications drive and just use everything else for storage, just 'cause it's so friggin' fast...

Newegg has it for $117.00 here

tsai0610 said:

<< the maxtor 300GB drive got very bad reviews. its too slow. >>

Probably cos its a 5400rpm drive ... keeps the costs and the temperatures down ...

@shley

albrandwood said:

<< WhiteStuph said:

<< perhaps you'd consider adding the WD raptor 36GB drive on the list, too? >>

With regard to SATA drives, I'm trying to keep this fairly generic and popular ... I doubt that a 36Gb SATA drive is gonna be a popular purchase ... not when it costs more than 120gb SATA ... I am working on a seperate SATA / SCSI / FlashCard / USB Key Drives / 802.11a/b/g you name it it'll be available... >>


I agree albrandwood... KISS should be the the theme here. Hope you found my compact flash and DVD-R/+R media guide helpful.

tsai0610 said:

<< the maxtor 300GB drive got very bad reviews. its too slow. >>

Well, I was just reading about it on Tom's hardware guide and they gave it a good review. It is 5400 RPM es, but it does keep the temps down, as stated by "albrandwood" and it is meant for a huge disk space without constant accessing that servers need it for.

jcbnetwork said:

<< Just thought this thread could also use the current deal at COMPUSA for a 60GB, 5400RPM, External USB 2.0 Hard Drive $49.99 A2R (After 2 Rebates) here is the url

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?ref=dsr&product%5Fcode=306325&pfp=EXTERNAL >>

Thanks JCBNetwork ... I've added this (I dont really want to add externals, but I guess this is at a price a lot of laptop owners would buy (if only for the USB2 enclosure) I also added the FireWire version that you PM'ed me ...

Thanks

@shley

Gah, was hoping to find some lead on a 2.5" HD deal