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

 RT> newer,  bigger hard drives.  Something to the effect of considering a
 RT> range of "a dollar a gig" being about right,  more or less.

 MK> About three to four dollars a gig sounds more right here for new 
 MK> HDs, depending on brand, seek time, etc.

Well,  I hear that there are 10,000 rpm server-class SCSI drives out there
that are really something,  but I'm not necessarily looking for something
like that...  :-)

How do those prices translate to $US?

 MK> Also there is a bios problem on drives larger then 32G or 36G (I 
 MK> forget which offhand).

I don't think that a BIOS limit would stop me.  Slow me down some,  yeah, 
but I think I can figure out a way around that.  Basically give it some
config that the bios _can_ deal with,  and make a smallish partition near
the start of the drive that's just big enough to fit / and /boot into,  and
go from there.

 MK> XP, and I'd assume other MS releases, cannot partition HDs greater 
 MK> then 60G. 

Not a problem for me.  :-)

 MK> A local MS guru brought a 120G drive over to my cousin's to 
 MK> partition for him.  They used a Linux utility CD I made for him to 
 MK> accomplish this.  Beats me if XP could handle it longterm but they 
 MK> did manage to get it installed and booting once Linux had created 
 MK> partitions that XP could deal with.

Yeah,  well...

 RT> Anybody in here know where there are some good deals?  I need to
 RT> radically expand my available storage space here.  :-)

 MK> The best deal I am aware of is a 40G Maxtor for $125 Canadian. 

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

There's always a price break with this sort of stuff,  so much a gig until
you get up there into the larger sizes,  at which point the price per gig
takes a big jump.  Like around the time I retired the old MFM stuff I'd
been running (the bearing noise of those ST251s was really getting to be
too much :-).  I looked around,  figured that around 340M was going to be
good,  and ended up with getting 540M.  The price break had moved between
the time I figured it and the time I bought one.  :-)

I still have that drive here,  too.  Not sure if that's the one that got
stuck in the OS/2 box or if it's the one that just recently got Slackware
loaded on to it,  but I only have two drives here in that size range...

Anyhow,  I'm still looking for deals.

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