[rescue] WANTED: Older IDE/ATA/PATA 500gb drives

[Peter Corlett]

On 9 Oct 2009, at 21:00, stephen price wrote:
[...]
> {Fry's} is running sata 500gb for $59 locally today - I'd given
> thought of
> slapping a sata-to-ide converter on a few - but even then 8 x 60 is
> outsid e
> the cost constraints of the project I want to do.

Hah, I'd love to find them that cheap retail.

Both Queensway Computer Markets and the Tottenham Court Road shops
seem to think it's still 2006 when it comes to hard disk pricing. I
was quoted #55 (about $80) for a bog standard 80GB 3.5" SATA disk in
one place. You could probably hear me laughing in their face from the
other side of the Atlantic.