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freddiepm61
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Linked From The Inquirer.
WITH THE holiday season in full swing here in the States, it's been entertaining to flip through the fattened Sunday propaganda sheets as the year end bargains are flogged to a high pitch. Since I like to walk into the local store for immediate gratification and returns, I'll live with paying a few extra bucks at the checkout counter rather than use a web browser.
CompUSA was offering a six hour deal on Sunday morning December 11, with an unnamed parallel or S-ATA 250 MB 16MB cache internal hard drive for $69.99 after the smoke cleared between a $20 instant savings and a $70 mail-in rebate, assuming you could get there between 8AM and 2PM. Do the sums and $280, once the rebate cheques clear later, will give you a terabyte of disk storage on four spindles. Circuit City is offering Western Digital 250GB 8MB cache internal drives for $80 if you can stand the "float" of $80 of mail-in rebates, so that'll give you a terabyte on a budget of $320 regardless of time of day.
Maxtor and Western Digital are in duelling banjo mode with their 300GB internal drives and Big Box distributors. The Maxtor 300GB drive with 16MB cache is available through CompUSA for $100 (well, $99.99) bucks once the discounts clear ($40 "instant" savings and a $60 CompUSA mail-in rebate). Western Digital's 300GB drive is available at BestBuy for $99.99 once you knock off the $90 in mail-in rebates. Either way, $400 gets you 1.2 TB across four spindles. If you prefer Seagate drives, they're selling 300 GB drives for $109.99 at Circuit City, but they only come with 8MB of cach
Sadly I live in the UK so I cant do it....right?
WITH THE holiday season in full swing here in the States, it's been entertaining to flip through the fattened Sunday propaganda sheets as the year end bargains are flogged to a high pitch. Since I like to walk into the local store for immediate gratification and returns, I'll live with paying a few extra bucks at the checkout counter rather than use a web browser.
CompUSA was offering a six hour deal on Sunday morning December 11, with an unnamed parallel or S-ATA 250 MB 16MB cache internal hard drive for $69.99 after the smoke cleared between a $20 instant savings and a $70 mail-in rebate, assuming you could get there between 8AM and 2PM. Do the sums and $280, once the rebate cheques clear later, will give you a terabyte of disk storage on four spindles. Circuit City is offering Western Digital 250GB 8MB cache internal drives for $80 if you can stand the "float" of $80 of mail-in rebates, so that'll give you a terabyte on a budget of $320 regardless of time of day.
Maxtor and Western Digital are in duelling banjo mode with their 300GB internal drives and Big Box distributors. The Maxtor 300GB drive with 16MB cache is available through CompUSA for $100 (well, $99.99) bucks once the discounts clear ($40 "instant" savings and a $60 CompUSA mail-in rebate). Western Digital's 300GB drive is available at BestBuy for $99.99 once you knock off the $90 in mail-in rebates. Either way, $400 gets you 1.2 TB across four spindles. If you prefer Seagate drives, they're selling 300 GB drives for $109.99 at Circuit City, but they only come with 8MB of cach
Sadly I live in the UK so I cant do it....right?
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