Two (more) less then $0.88/GB Hard drive deals.

[PitViper]

CompUSA brand (rebadged Maxtor DiamondMax Plus) 80GB, 7200 rpm, 8MB cache, ATA133
Reg: $129.99, Sale: $99.99 – 30 MIR = $69.99
$0.875/GB @ CompUSA (http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product%5Fcode=301730&csearch=1&cmid=gosku&pfp=srch1)

Western Digital brand 100GB, 7200 rpm, 2MB cache, ATA100
Reg: $149.99, Sale: $139.99 – 30 MIR – 40 MIR = $69.99
$0.70/GB @ Circuit City (http://www.circuitcity.com/frame1.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0295926551.1050356519@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdhadcidgekfelcfngcfkmdffhdffl.0&upper=head.jsp&lower=frame2.jsp&left=leftdept.jsp&right=verity_search.jsp&inleftcat=Shop+%26+Learn&productType=1&search=WD1000BBRTL&qp=0)
Link to product seems to have changed since Sunday. Search for WD1000BBRTL if you have problems.

Both the same price. Trade off between the drive capacity and cache size.

[yippiekiyeh]

I love the fact that prices are dropping like crazy! Now I wonder where the prices will stablize?

[Mercury]

Originally posted by chosenfool
when SATA is fully here. theyre liquidating as many PATA drives as they can vbefore an all-out launch (though it IS already here...).

i might just get that 80GB drive...

SATA? PATA? I'm missing something... What does this mean?

[attgig]

Originally posted by Mercury


SATA? PATA? I'm missing something... What does this mean?

serial ATA
Parallel ATA

go to like tomshardware.com or anandtech.com to see why serial is better than parallel