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Post #2

Its still not generally recommended to keep your hard drives underwater!


Now there is a useful piece of information. :D
Thanks for the tip!

p.s. I read the rest of the Knoll Ontrack statement….
And now I don't really want to eat my lunch.
Post #5 last edited
Speaking of new HD's, I lucked out just before holidays and found an EIDE 500GB WD Caviar Blue w/16MB cache for $70. Installing it and copying over the data (Ghost) took a little over an hour. It appears the 16MB cache feature was key.

Much to my surprise (a pleasant one), it cut boot-up time on an XPSP3/Celeron2.4GHZ/1GB by more than half (5 minutes to just over 2 minutes). Defrag is faster, too. 'Not that the 500GB will ever be used, but the price was great, and there won't be any problems keeping it away from moisture.

Search: hard drive eide 16mb
- http://www.pricewatch.com/search?q=hard+drive+eide+16mb
-or-
- http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=297

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Post #7 last edited
Er, that looks like a "20-pack" of some sort - the one I got was:

WD5000AAKB
- http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=297

… and doing some poking around the web, it appears it can still be had for about $70, so even if you did the math, Dell's price is about $88 x 20 - pricey, as always with Dell. Try.
- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx…N82E16822136111
$79.99
- http://www.aaawave.com/WD-500GB-WD5000AAKB…OEM-P14657.aspx
$77.99
- http://pcdirect.com/wedicablide5.html
$59.99 - MFG Recertified

… probably are others.

;)
Post #8
At first I thought it was just a misprint and wanted to joke about it. Now I see that it is a 20-pack. I just bought quantity (3) three of WDCaviar Black 3.5in 640GB SATA 3.0GB/s 32mb Cache, 7200 RPM Model: WD6401AALS, OEM from Directron.com (accessed via Dell.com) Price $65.99 each Shipping $11.99 I have not yet cloned and installed any of these drives. Bottom-line, it looks like we both got pretty good deals.