On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, Jeff Simpson wrote: > > Great price, but these days you start running into limits on how many > > drives you can put in a system, due to bays, IDE controllers and power. > > (Though you can buy external usb boxes for more than the post-rebate cost > > of this drive.) > > I'm one of the lucky few with 4 channels of IDE (up to 8 drives) > supported in linux (it's an older gigabyte board). So the real limit > in my system is power, heat, noise, and space! :-)
Even so, do you really want to fill up with drives as "small" as 160gb, even at just 19 cents/gigabyte. Now if you want to raid-5, such drives make more sense if you can buy more than one of them. I'm being a little extreme here, 160gb is somewhat tolerable, but at this point I would probably not be very interested in 120gb drives or less any more. Plus this drive costs $41 including tax, and you can only get one, and there is the work of the rebate, and finally the chance you won't get the rebate (I would rate at 20%) adds another $20 of cost. So now it's $61, which is still somewhat attractive, but less so. I might still do this a drive to keep offline for backup or long term storage. At this price, I could see somebody slapping an archive of favourite shows onto the drive, and keeping it offline, and then putting it into an external case if somebody wants to see a show. Mplayer only of course.
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