[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com (fwd)

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: David Muran-de Assereto <dmuran at tuad.org>
>Date: 2007/12/26 Wed PM 01:44:35 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com (fwd)

>On Dec 24, 2007, at 07:27 , Tonu Samuel wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 10:56 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:14:13 -0500
>>> From: David Muran-de Assereto <dmuran at tuad.org>
>>> Reply-To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>> To: Rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>> Subject: [rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com
>>>
>>> Just a heads up, no association with seller except past satisfaction.
>>>
>>> geeks.com is selling 36.4GB 15K FCALs for $4.99 each.
>>
>> Hah, just tried to order 50 of them. Shipping is ranging from 830 to
>> 1600 USD internationally. No way :)
>
>Hey, that's still only about $40 each. Not bad, compared to some of  
>the prices I've seen.

That would likely ship in 5 small boxes of 10 (from refurb), and weigh what, 
about 30-40 pounds each? That's a lot of weight to ship internationally...

The problem isn't the price of the drive, it's the price of the shipping - to 
quote Dave McGuire " Time to move" ;^)

Lionel