Post by Paladin on Sept 14, 2005 23:54:00 GMT -5
Have been spending the last couple of weeks showing some newbies on how to build their first computer from scratch. Have been spending a lot of time looking for suppliers of parts and I just found a supplier who is selling 40GB Seagates for $25. No limits on how many drives I can get from him.
These are brand new drives pulled from an OEM hardware to be replaced with a larger hard drive. So right now, this third party OEM gets a bunch of 40GB hard drive every time they make a hardware order cause their customers want larger hard drives then the installed 40GB.
The hard drives are Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 - specs
Bought two today and they're working great. Using one to back-up some LAN leech and the other for a system I'm helping a coworker build. They still have the manufacture's label and seal on and I checked to see if they are still under warranty, and they are.
I plan to make another purchase next Friday, so if anyone is interested, post away or hit up Mameman. The guy is in SF and so I get to inspect the drives when I pick them up that day.
40GB isn't really big enough for most of us, but for $25 (I spend a little over $35 for a full tank of gas) the drives are cheap enough for small storage use or for messing around with multiple RAID setups.
These are brand new drives pulled from an OEM hardware to be replaced with a larger hard drive. So right now, this third party OEM gets a bunch of 40GB hard drive every time they make a hardware order cause their customers want larger hard drives then the installed 40GB.
The hard drives are Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 - specs
Bought two today and they're working great. Using one to back-up some LAN leech and the other for a system I'm helping a coworker build. They still have the manufacture's label and seal on and I checked to see if they are still under warranty, and they are.
I plan to make another purchase next Friday, so if anyone is interested, post away or hit up Mameman. The guy is in SF and so I get to inspect the drives when I pick them up that day.
40GB isn't really big enough for most of us, but for $25 (I spend a little over $35 for a full tank of gas) the drives are cheap enough for small storage use or for messing around with multiple RAID setups.