Yummy! (Bay Area Fry's) Maxtor 40 gig 69.99 - 40.00MIR = 29.99

[nickels84]

Yummy! (Cali Bay Area Fry's) Maxtor 40 gig 69.99 - 40.00MIR = 29.99
From the friday ad. Noone else posted it so I figured it was my duty to do it. I also thought anything under a buck a gig is worth it.
BTW- it might NOT be Cali Bay Area only, I never checked outpost.com to see if its on there too. Enjoy!

 

[nickels84]

Im surprised people arent jumping all over this thing. Maybe its that large hatred for frys.

 

[psehgal]

Originally posted by: nickels84
Im surprised people arent jumping all over this thing. Maybe its that large hatred for frys.

Or maybe its just because these days you can get an 80 GB Maxtor for $50 and a 120 GB one for $60 (both after MIR's and coupons) at Staples. Check out this page for details:

Hard Drive Deals

 

[nickels84]

Yeah I got 4 80 gig drives for 40 bucks each but hey this is still pretty decent.

 

[0roo0roo]

40gb is a tad small, thats why. 29 seems like regular price for that kind of space. some of us need oodles of space and can't spare an ide channel not to mention it feels like a waste of electricity for that litle space.

course i guess it would be ok for a raid 1 backup situation.

 

[nickels84]

I was kinda thinking the same thing. But I also heard that its good to put your OS on a smaller drive rather than partitioning a big one. I guess the needle doesnt have as far to move to get to the OS on a smaller drive. Frankly I have 4 80 gig maxtors that i got for 39 bucks and more than a quarter terabyte is enough for me. I think im going to do striping on 2 of em and seee how much fater it really is.

 

[iwearnosox]

I got a 1 terrabyte 8mb cache drive for $50 the other night. Then I woke up.

Only buy the storage you need, it's just getting cheaper by the day!

 

[nickels84]

I dl large files all the time and having a lot of space has been a nice thing to have handy. I like to copy entire DVD images to it. Now that I have a dvd burner I can burn all these images I got stored.

 

[canoner]

their rebates take forever to redeem

 

[Danzilla]

Heck. I bought the same drive for $15 after rebates like six months ago. While $30 isn't bad for a small drive, you'd have to do better to interest most AT people.

 

[jbwhite99]

Same sale is on in Phoenix Maxtor 40GB $69.99-$40 MAXTOR MIR = $29.99. So it is not a Fry's rebate - maybe that makes things better.

To the guy who bought a 1 Terabyte drive - I hope that it has more than an 8MB cache - that would not be enough to cache the FAT - the performance would be major suckage.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: nickels84
I was kinda thinking the same thing. But I also heard that its good to put your OS on a smaller drive rather than partitioning a big one. I guess the needle doesnt have as far to move to get to the OS on a smaller drive. Frankly I have 4 80 gig maxtors that i got for 39 bucks and more than a quarter terabyte is enough for me. I think im going to do striping on 2 of em and seee how much fater it really is.

nope, theres no difference. while its good to use a small os partition for easy ghost image creation and maintenance etc, it doesn't matter if the os partition takes up the whole drive. i use 6gb o/s partitions always.

and as for the needle? you mean the seek head? it would have to move more on a smaller lower density drive. the disc inside is the same size, with lower density data. it'll read slower as the rpms are standard.

 

[nickels84]

You're making some good sense. Thanks that actually clarifys a lot of things.

 

[yodayoda]

why bother partitioning? i just have separate drives for OS and storage. and the crack about IDE channels is really not valid, as an ATA card is about $20 or less in the FS forums. hell, i think i have two of them from my 180GB hard drive purchase. you can always add IDE channels and it is always a better solution than partitioning a hard drive.

 

[0roo0roo]

why bother partitioning? do you need 40gb for your o/s? partitioning a c: makes it easier to format c when your windows is hosed and lose nothing but o/s. if your smart enough to make a clean ghost image of your system, you can also restore a copy of fresh windows within a few minutes, and very little effort.