Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > A 500GB hard drive that costs US$100 can store 5GB per dollar >... > Can you point me to (recommend) brand and place to purchase such drives? I buy bare "OEM" drives and connect them via a separate USB hookup that I re-use from disk to disk. I get the disks locally at "dot com depot" in Santa Clara (408) 738-3895. I'm sure they would sell to you mail order if you phone them. Their stock and prices vary from day to day; at this instant their price on a Seagate 500GB IDE Barracuda is $129.95 but I bet that if I drove down there they'd have something cheaper. I buy drives about 4 times a year; it is pointless to stockpile them. I like Seagate Barracuda drives; right now I am using the 500GB drives for archival storage because I got a great price on 3 of them a couple of months ago, but if I see a great price on some smaller size I might buy those next time. Recently the 400GB Seagate IDE drives were going for about $66 on eBay (see item 260116726684, for example). Those disks (400GB Seagate IDE) are quite regularly available on Amazon.com under $100. To put data onto a disk, I attach one of these to it and plug it into my computer: http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=13779 Then when I'm done, I remove the disk from the USB harness, put it into a Glad bag, and put it into a fire-resistant strongbox.