Price Guide, December 2005: Storage
by Haider Farhan on December 17, 2005 2:31 PM EST- Posted in
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PATA
With the PATA drives, most of them are roughly at the same price point. A few have fluctuated up or down, but nothing too significant to draw attention to.
It seems though that the online prices are not very appealing. At a B&M shop, you can find much better deals if you don't mind going through a few rebates.
If rebates are not your thing, then picking up a drive from the 250GB category below appears to be where the best deals are. For about $100, the Western Digital 250GB Caviar SE with 8MB of cache [RTPE: WD2500JB] is a decent deal. Another fair price on a 250GB drive is the Maxtor ATA100 250GB 7200RPM 16MB MaXLine III [RTPE: 7B250R0] which is on sale for about $108. We are seeing a price reduction of about $18 with the latter suggestion.
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redknightrg - Sunday, December 18, 2005 - link
I don't know when WD made this drive available, but its a SATA II drive with NCQ and a 16mb cache, with 106mb platters instead of the old 80s WD used in previous drives.Here's a newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...">link.
Has this drive just not had time to show up on your RTPE yet?
I already bought one, so maybe I'll tell you how it goes... ;-)
quasarsky - Sunday, December 18, 2005 - link
I think seagate drives are the bomb diggy. Ok I'll stop being silly now lol. I got a 400 gig one, 7200.8, for $91 cause I ordered a 250 gig 7200.8 sata for $91 shipped refurbished but a 400 is what they sent me, which is good cause thats what I really wanted lol. Oh well. It'll be awhile yet if ever those 400 gig drives drop to that price, let alone 500 gig drives :)oh btw my first post ever :-D