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Offline snoutmeat

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WTB: Best price for a new 250 or 320 GB drive in the US?
« on: March 08, 2010, 09:24:14 am »
Yee-haw! I've been using my Phatbox in my VW in the USA for several years now and have loved it (but wished my 20 GB cartridge were bigger). When I bought the unit, the hack did not yet exist. I just decided to research whether or not a workaround had been found, and was excited to see that I can hack my Phatbox now to use a bigger drive!

I have the USB 2.0 dock, so it looks like I'm not stuck with the 127 GB limit. Honestly, I think 100 or 120 GB would be big enough for my purposes, but it appears that a 100 GB or 120 GB drive is almost as expensive as a 250 GB drive.

Websites like pricewatch aren't very helpful because they show all 2.5 inch notebook drives and don't differentiate between IDE and SATA.
After much website browsing, I have found:

320 GB Scorpio Blue drive (new retail box) for $99 at B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/608015-REG/Western_Digital_WD3200BEVERTL_320GB_2_5_Scorpio_Blue.html
31 cents per gig

320 GB Scorpio Blue (OEM package) $89.99 shipped at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001SQH1DY/
28 cents per gig

250 GB Scorpio Blue drive (new retail box) for $79 shipped at B&H: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/583764-REG/Western_Digital_WD2500BEVERTL_250GB_2_5_Scorpio_Blue.html
31 cents per gig

160 GB Samsung Spinpoint M5 OEM for $62 shipped from eWiz: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=SM-HM160HC&c=fr&pid=da9432f7e89f6224a7e620747e1d0ec7d541669d2dcb3b1e97a8dd790bda5667
39 cents per gig

120 GB Scorpio Blue OEM bulk package on Amazon for $59.99 shipped http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Notebook-WD1200BEVE/dp/B000RHNPDU/
50 cents per gig

Does anyone know of better deals on 100-320 GB drives? I could get a 100 or 120 GB if one were for sale somewhere for something like $30-40 (same price per GB as the bigger drives). Everyone seems to want to sell their 100 and 120 GB drives for $60 or more...

Any reason to pick Samsung over WD or vice versa?

Thanks!
« Last Edit: March 08, 2010, 09:54:10 am by snoutmeat »