Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hello Roy.

 MK> 28 Aug 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 RT> How do those prices translate to $US?

 MK> Roughly, $100 Canadian translates to about $70 USD.  It varies day
 MK> to day. 

 RT> I don't think that a BIOS limit would stop me.  Slow me down some,
 RT> yeah,  but I think I can figure out a way around that.

 MK> Yep.  Linux is good.

 RT> I saw some 40G drives selling for around the $100 price range just
 RT> yesterday,  or maybe slightly above that.  But I thought that 60-80G
 RT> drives were out there,  and even some nontrivially larger sizes?

 MK> Yes.  I am not sure about prices though.  $100 USD sounds a tad
 MK> overpriced but not too bad if one considers shipping costs etc.

I hit this one place this morning that was showing total bottom-line costs,
 including shipping and tax,  if you had to pay that...   Still didn't find
anything as cheap as what's being talked about in here and some of that
stuff was *way* expensive,  made me wonder how recently they'd updated it.

 MK> I imagine they don't make them where you are.  I thought the $80 
 MK> USD reported here by others sounded like a better deal but then it
 MK> depends on your situation.  If it costs $20 worth of gas to save
 MK> $20 then there is no real saving is there?  As far as rebates go 
 MK> I'd rather they just pass on the saving at the cash register 
 MK> myself.

Yeah,  anyway.  Especially when the rebate doesn't get here.

 RT> There's always a price break with this sort of stuff,  so much a gig
 RT> until you get up there into the larger sizes,  at which point the
 RT> price per gig takes a big jump.

 MK> That happens.

Looks at this point like 80G is below that break point,  if I can find
somebody selling them at that price.

 RT> Anyhow,  I'm still looking for deals.

 MK> Always.  The tricky part is affording the deals eh?

Well,  yeah,  but that's a whole 'nother issue.

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