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June 17, 2004

Looking for a new HD

Here's the current price per meg breakdown of different size drives out there.

SATA
250gb 170$ .68
200gb 120$ .6
160gb 90$  .5625
120gb 90$  .75
80gb 70$   .875

EIDE
250gb 157$ .628
200gb 101$ .505
160gb 70$  .4375
120gb 64$  .533

Looks like a RAID array of 160gb EIDE drives is the way to go. I much prefer the SATA ones, but the market has spoken.

Posted by gene_wood at June 17, 2004 07:11 PM

Comments

Kati Voluntine has just informed me that she hates this entry.

Posted by: gene at June 23, 2004 10:20 AM

I think we all kinda do which is why it was left without comments. ;-) Luv ya Gene!

Posted by: Clint at June 23, 2004 11:51 AM

I kind of loved it, but I didn't really understand the whole thing and then I hated myself for being a sucker with a 40 gig drive and then Voluntine bled all over the keyboard and it all went to hell.

Posted by: sean at June 23, 2004 11:55 AM

I just lost over 60 gigs of porn the other day when I had to reformat my stupid computer. Hey Gene, I have a technical question/help about installing movable type on staynobody.com. If you could help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, I am heterosexual, I just meant if someone wants to smoke some cock, let them smoke cock!

Posted by: Christopher at July 2, 2004 12:32 PM

i found that guys objected when i lit their dicks on fire, so i stopped doing it.

Posted by: didofoot at July 2, 2004 12:39 PM

This entry is great.

I decided to go with eight 200GB parallel ATA drives. They're Seagates and they run nice and quiet and cool. With a 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 controller I have plenty of performance for my 1.4 terrabyte RAID-5. 160GB drives might have been cheaper but I couldn't fit 1+TB in a mid tower with only 160GB per drive.

Posted by: Ivan at July 3, 2004 11:51 AM

Can you take instruction manuals as a foreign language at the college level now?

Posted by: Clint at July 3, 2004 10:04 PM

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