[conspire] question about EIDE ATA hard drive to buy

[Edmund J. Biow]

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>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:06 -0800
>From: "Edmund J. Biow" <biow at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: Re: [conspire] question about EIDE ATA hard drive to buy
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>>Particularly if you are not adverse to mail in rebates the big box 
>>stores are often cheaper than online vendors.  Check SalesCircular:
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>>http://www.salescircular.com/ca/computer/hdiskp.shtml
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>>This week CompUSSR has a Western Digital 250 GB drive for $60 after $50 
>>MIR.  That comes to about $59 after tax assuming the MIR comes through, 
>>about 23.6 cents per gig.  
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Er, let's try $69 and 0.276 dollars per gig, still a bit better than 
$200 for 250 MB I paid for my first hard drive upgrade.