200GB Hard Drive for under $100

[Mark Holtz]

Gee, and I remember when a 300MB hard drive cost $300. Now, Office Depot is offerring a 200GB hard drive for $99 after rebates (Maxtor 7200RPM, ATA/133, 8 MB cache), and Outpost.Com is offering a Seagate ATA/100 drive for $60 after rebate.

I also checked out Newegg. That same Maxtor drive is $117 (bare drive packaging), and a 160GB Samsung drive (2MB Cache) is $90.

[Mark Lamutt]

Outpost has the Seagate 200GB drive for $120 minus a $60 MIR, so $60 plus shipping and applicable tax. Not a bad deal...now if it were only the 250 or 300, I'd be all over it.

[Mark Holtz]

Now, if only TiVo and DirecTV would release an updated kernal so that we can use these drives in the SD units.

[dfergie]

I got a 250 gig maxtor a few weeks ago from outpost for 119$ still have not put in in my replay yet though, I keep adding programs to it instead of archiving :) I have had the 200 gig Seagate in my other Replay since this spring and only problem I've had was a defective Ide cable.

[Bogy]

Gee, and I remember when a 300MB hard drive cost $300.
My first hd was 30 meg and cost me $300 and I didn't figure I would EVER fill it all up.

[cdru]

Outpost has the Seagate 200GB drive for $120 minus a $60 MIR, so $60 plus shipping and applicable tax. Not a bad deal...now if it were only the 250 or 300, I'd be all over it.Yup. Ordered it yesterday. It has about 2.5 hours before DHL delivers it this morning. It will go nicely with a twin drive I got a few weeks ago from NewEgg.

Dell did have the same drive for 97 last week, but it's backordered with a likely ship date of 9/29, so I canceled it. I usually don't do the rebate thing, but this time I'll pay the little higher up front price for the lower price in the end.

My first drive I ever had access to was a 10 meg MFM drive. It had been dropped and 1/2 the sectors were bad...but it was still 10 megs! I could hold 20 of my 5 1/4 360K floppies reliably. It was da bomb.

My first drive with any real capacity was a 300 meg drive for $330. It took forever to fill up...especially using my 2400 bps modem. Now I could fill up that drive in a few minutes with DSL.

Ah...the memories.