what is the best size hard drive for the buck?

[annilation]

I am looking to get some more hard drives cause I am almost out of space. Right now I am sitting at 15gb free out of 1tb. I was looking at drives and havent really kept up lately with all of the different ones. I was debating 400gb, 500gb, or 750gb. Bestbuy has 400gb sata II drives on sale for like $160 so I was debating that or should I look at just getting 500's?

[tisb0b]

any 400gb hdd should offer you best bang for buck and $160 is a good price or you should be able to find a 500gb hdd for around $230-$250.

[[LYL]Homer]

Seagate 320gb 7200.10 Perpendicular Technology drive

$89.99 with promo code:

5offbarracuda

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?CMP=AFC-TechBargains&Item=N82E16822148140

Latest technology @ $0.28/gb

[annilation]

Im not looking for the best deal of the week I want to buy like 2 now then maybe 2 next paycheck and add on I want to have somewhere from 4-8 in a raid 5 array.

[MrGuvernment]

the 320g drives always seem to be the best, or 2nd best g per $ out there.

just compares the harddrives price per g and stock prices.

[unhappy_mage]

for i in `seq 0 30 150`; do wget --quiet "http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=110902&SortBy=C&Brand=&startRecord=$i&endRecord=`expr $i + 30`" -O - | grep "class=stxt" >> data; done
perl -e 'while (<STDIN>) { /\>\s*(\w+).+?\s([0-9]+)G/ && print "$1 $2 "; /color\=red\>\$(\d+.\d+)/ && print "$1\n"; }' < data | grep ^[A-Za-z] - | sort | uniq >new-data
sqlite3
CREATE TABLE zzf_prices (mfg text, size int, cost float);
.separator " "
.import new-data zzf_prices
SELECT size/cost AS costpergb, * FROM zzf_prices ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 10;
3.46236410220899 Western 500 144.41
3.40136054421769 Western 250 73.5
3.35570469798658 Western 250 74.5
3.20924261874198 Western 250 77.9
3.2088993475238 Seagate 300 93.49
3.2003200320032 Seagate 320 99.99
3.15831030398737 Western 400 126.65
3.12539067383423 Hitachi 250 79.99
3.09178743961353 Western 320 103.5
3.07988450433109 Western 320 103.9
There you have it. Cheapest drives, GB/$, on ZipZoomFly.com, assuming my code is correct (which isn't a real great assumption :p) Other than that, good luck. The Seagates are a ways up that list, but they're my suggestion.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=150072)

[drizzt81]

for i in `seq 0 30 150`; do wget --quiet "http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=110902&SortBy=C&Brand=&startRecord=$i&endRecord=`expr $i + 30`" -O - | grep "class=stxt" >> data; done
perl -e 'while (<STDIN>) { /\>\s*(\w+).+?\s([0-9]+)G/ && print "$1 $2 "; /color\=red\>\$(\d+.\d+)/ && print "$1\n"; }' < data | grep ^[A-Za-z] - | sort | uniq >new-data
sqlite3
CREATE TABLE zzf_prices (mfg text, size int, cost float);
.separator " "
.import new-data zzf_prices
SELECT size/cost AS costpergb, * FROM zzf_prices ORDER BY 1 DESC LIMIT 10;

There you have it. Cheapest drives, GB/$, on ZipZoomFly.com, assuming my code is correct (which isn't a real great assumption :p) Other than that, good luck. The Seagates are a ways up that list, but they're my suggestion.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=150072)
Wow, nice.

[gjvrieze]

I say 320gb perp. Seagates, and i have 7 of them....

[unhappy_mage]

Wow, nice.
Thanks :D I love writing quick little code that mostly works :p

[Dew]

So people don't get confused, the higher up on the list, the cheaper per GB.

Edit: BTW, UM, What am I doing wrong here?
I'm trying to add a column for product ID so I can have it link to the cheapest per GB drive.

for i in `seq 0 30 150`; do wget --quiet "http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=110902&SortBy=C&Brand=&startRecord=$i&endRecord=`expr $i + 30`" -O - | grep "class=stxt\|PreShoppingCart.jsp?pcd=" >> data; done
perl -e 'while (<STDIN>) { /\>\s*(\w+).+?\s([0-9]+)G/ && print "$1 $2 "; /color\=red\>\$(\d+.\d+)/ && print "$1\n"; /pcd\=[0-9]/ && print " $1" }' < data | grep "^[A-Za-z]\|^[0-9]" - | sort | uniq >new-data

[unhappy_mage]

Here's an updated code to do that:
for i in `seq 0 30 150`; do wget --quiet "http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=110902&SortBy=C&Brand=&startRecord=$i&endRecord=`expr $i + 30`" -O - | grep "class=stxt\|ProductCode=" >> data; done
perl -e 'while (<STDIN>) { /\>\s*(\w+).+?\s([0-9]+)G/ && print "$1 $2 "; /color\=red\>\$(\d+.\d+)/ && print " $1 "; /ProductCode\=(\d+)/ && print " $1\n" }' < data | grep "^[A-Za-z0-9]" - | sort | uniq > new-data
then insert into and query DB as before. Remember to add the extra column to the DB for prodID.

What are you doing wrong? You forgot the capturing parentheses around [0-9], and forgot that there could be more than one digit. So I changed [0-9] into (\d+). And changed a few other things :p

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=150072)