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by 2toneunityboi

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can someone help me or hook me up some how wiht a few 200 gig hardrives, or 120gig drives please. desperate need of them for my server. thanks.

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by guruofdos

Shop around! After all, that's one of the uses of the internet! I can get 200Gb ATA133 7200rpm drives for about ?60, or US$85 retail from my local supplier but it depends how far away you are from Portsmouth, UK!!

by thechas

In the US, the only way to get inexpensive current model drives is to play the rebate game.

The rub here, is that you are limited to 1 rebate per brand per year.

That makes it rather difficult to set up a proper RAID array on a server.

Yournext best option is the secondary market, looking for refurbished drives.
You can find deals from time to time at:
www.compgeeks.com
www.newegg.com

Chas

by djent

You must like living on the edge. Cheap hard drives are not good and good hard drives are not cheap. Any server worth keeping deserves good drives, they are actually cheaper over their life time.

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