* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 15 17:12 -0500]: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Last Wednesday, I bought two WD6400AAKS drives from NewEgg. >> >> They were manufactured in Thailand only 21 days ago. They couldn't >> have been sitting in NE's warehouse very long... >> > > About $90 each. But 640GB each what a world are you going to store on > them? And also amazing is the cost/GB. I remember when at IBM a 125MB > disk was a super deal...
Right at 18 years ago I bought my first hard drive, a Seagate 20 MB MFM drive with a Western Digital controller card for my PC XT clone for $80. I thought it was a heckuva deal. That computer served me very well for several years. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
