Warm Deal? Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30 gb

[minotaur]

They're being sold at buy.com for 160.95. Take $30 off that with any of the coupons floating around, and another $30 for a manufacturer's rebate.

Link for rebate: http://www.quantum.com/quantum/promos/030700_rebate.htm?PAGECONTEXT=PRN

So it's 100.95 before shipping. According to Storagereview.com, its performance is on par with an IBM 75GXP. I tihnk it's a pretty good deal. There are rebates
on other capacity drives as well (I think this 30 gb is the best tho)

What do you guys think? It's my first post.

[KornKob]

Order 1 of these:

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10243351&loc=101

at 100.95

Use the $15 off $100 coupon and then submit the rebate from Quantum.

Have a 'freind' do the same.

Total cost (pre-ship): ~$110

Now spend the $35 or so on the Promise ATA card to Promise RAID card (http://www.thetechzone.com/reviews/controllers/promise/hacked_ultra66/page4.shtml) and you have 30 gigs of blindingly fast storage.

[minotaur]

Ahh, but for a Quantum 15gb, the manufacturer rebate is only $15. So the cost b4 shipping for one 15gb drive is $70.
For 2, it would be $200 - $30 - $30 = $140.
So I think my deal is still better :)