On Jan 24, 2011, at 19:52, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-01-24 16:55 , John Sessoms wrote: >> From: steve harley >>> On 2011-01-24 10:35 , John Sessoms wrote: >>>> > Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives >>>> > yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RAID1 >>>> > (mirrored) this morning. >>>> > >>>> > The 1.5TB drives (Seagate Barracuda) were $80 each; 2TB drives would >>>> > have been $180 each. >>> since a NAS is inherently limited by your network speed, fastest drives >>> are not crucial -- the Samsung 2TB drives for $80 at NewEgg are what i'd >>> recommend (i'll forgo my anecdotal evidence) >>> >>> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152245> >>> >> >> It wasn't the speed of the hard-disks. It was the availability. > > ah, ok, fair enough; it's just when you posted the prices i thought people > should know their options > >> The internet sales tax is about 1/2% more than >> the sales tax on local purchases. > > oh, you have to pay that? how does NC know? >
Yeah - sales tax is "required" for Internet purchases here in MN, too. Not sure how it's meant to be enforced, though. Some vendors note the shipping address and charge the tax. Some. Most don't! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
