[OT?] FYI: WD 250 GB drives $49 + $5

[Bill McGonigle]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 09:37, Jeff Kinz wrote:

> Woot only sells one item per day, 3 units max to any buyer
> ...
> But thats only a guess and not one I would feel
> secure enough about to use these drives for anything but experimental 
> or
> fun only type applications

I normally only buy Seagate, but with that extra IDE controller I have 
on the shelf, this is a .5TB RAID-5 array for $175.  That really brings 
out the cheap in me. :)  Unless they all fail, RAID mitigates much of 
the risk of them being refurbs.   Time to start ripping the DVD's, 
methinks.

-Bill

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