[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Aaron Finley <aaronfinley at gmail.com>
>Date: 2006/10/12 Thu AM 12:47:32 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

>On 10/10/06, Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Bill Bradford wrote:
>> > It looks like hitechcafe(.com) has finally gone out of business.
>> >
>> > Anybody know a good cheap place to buy refurb 36G-or-larger SCA drives?
>> > $WORK needs three of them.
>
>I do pretty well on eBay looking for guys selling drives in multiple
>quantities. There were a couple auctions a week or two ago of qty 5 or
>6 drives, in a dutch auction format, so the prices  were kept
>artifically low.
>
>Got 6 IBM 36GB 7200rpms for $25, and 5 36GB 10k Cheetahs for $75. Not
>bad at all.

Just a datapoint: 74 GB Maxtor (I know, I know) 10,000 RPM U320 SCSI drive, $59.97

Link: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=M122-6306+R&AffiliateID=Es5Ekr9eEBk-H92T9RQGwXeYkSTvgT3LvA

Lionel