I was shopping in Microcenter while my wife was at a shower. I saw a nice 3.5inch hard drive enclosure in the clearance aisle for $15 marked down from $20. I wasn't sure I wanted to buy an open box, so I went looking for a new one as well as a cheap drive to go with it.
Then I saw a
Buffalo Tech 250 GB SATA drive for $70 after rebates. Now I hate rebates and it turns out that the $50 rebate is actually two rebates. Still, it's a SATA drive bundled with encryption software and backup software.
So I get it home and sit down to read the paper. Staples is having a
Western Digital 400GB PATA drive for only $20 more after rebate starting tomorrow. The rebate is a single Easy Rebate instead of having to mail out two rebates.
So I keep on telling myself that it's a SATA drive and that the integrated bundled software (I have have to use the word integrated to pretend that somehow the software is designed to work with the drive when I know different) makes up for the 150GB, as well as the increased bus speed, even though both are USB 2.0 connected to the computer.
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05-05-2007, 03:37 PM
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