On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:33:41PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > "Small disk drive" means "smaller than any drive I can buy at the > local Best Buy/Circuit City/CompUSA/similar". At the time, I needed an > 80GB drive, and paid about $60 for it.
Well then your comparison isn't really fair.. Sure, a brand new hard drive from a retail outlet is more expensive than a 10-year-old box (especially if the box is refurbished). No surprise there! I thought we were comparing oranges and oranges. In that case, check out www.geeks.com (the old computergeeks), they have a number of drives for sale under $49.95. > Try http://www.pcretro.com/. Their current special is the Dell > PowerEdge 6350 (dual CPU, 255MB ram, 2 9GB hot swap drives on separate > controllers) for $49.95. The boxes I bought had a mouse and keyboard > included, no monitor or speakers. Not that I cared - I tossed the > mouse and keyboard on the spare parts pile and plugged them into a > KVM. -- Rick C. Petty _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
