> ST>     How low are you willing to go for? I think for 
> ST> a 2nd hand HDD, 50 - 60 cent per meg is reasonable...  

> That's the price of a NEW drive.  They sell 
> 540 meg HDD for about $300 ... which is 55c per meg.  

TR> Indeed. How big a hard drive do they sell for $40-$90 though?  

I don't think they sell anything less than 345 meg.

TR> Presumably if people had $300 to spend they would buy a brand new 540mb 
TR> drive and would not be looking for a secondhand 40-120mb drive for $40-90. 
TR> It's called supply and demand.  

Or ignorance.  Some people simply don't know that there are
better bangs/buck available from the larger drives.  I know
when I was buying a 240 meg drive from the same mob, I simply
forgot to ask them what the prices on the larger drives was
like, and found out later that for just a little bit extra I
could have had a MUCH better deal.  It is not obvious why the
drive price should fluctuate with the different sizes.  E.g.
why 540 meg would be cheaper than both 345 meg and 1 gig. 

Indeed, at these prices, hard drives are cheaper than most
brands of floppy disks, and it wasn't until I was on my way
to buy some floppy disks that I did the calculation and realised
I may as well back up on to a second hard drive!

Anyway, I realise this is off-topic and will sign off here.
Actually what happened was that that message from the other guy
was the last message in the echo after going "end" then "enter"
and I saw that statement, cursored back to see if he was a 
buyer or seller, and when I saw he was a buyer I thought I'd 
point out to him the c/meg you could get on new hard drives.

BFN.  Paul.
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