Hello, Roy.

Best HDD deal from the mass-retailers (rebates) in paper here yesterday
was 120GB Maxtor for $60 AR from CompUSA.  $100 plus tax out the door,
and $40 mfgr's mail-in rebates.  Others had pretty much the standard
prices which have been being offered. - - 80GB for $70 AR,  120GB for
$80 AR, and 160GB for $100 AR.

Best prices at www.pricewatch.com (no rebates, shipping included) are
40GB for $48,  60GB for $54, 80GB for $62, 120GB for $84, and 160GB for
$110.

In addition to the already-mentioned 7200 vs 5400 rpm possible heat
problem - Mfgrs have generally no gone to only a 1-year warranty,
whereas about this time last year, the std was 3-years. Newest EIDE
drives generally have 8MB cache on them vs, 2MB about this time last
year. Newest drives probably support UDMA/EIDE 133, vs 100 maybe a year
ago.

Very newest mainboards now support something even faster - Serial ATA
(SATA), and drives which support that cost a bit more.  BIR I saw a
120GB SATA drive in yesterday's paper for $120 AR.

- - -  JimH.

... Jim, why does everything these days have to be so danged complicated?-Bubba
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