Sweet new Maxtor external HD...decisions decisions

[Curval]

A friend of mine sold me a 200 gig external HD this weekend.  He sold it to me pretty cheap ($200) and told me that he left all his music on it for me and that if I wanted to store my stuff I would have to delete some of it beforehand as it was almost full.

Boy was he right.  It had 180 gig of tunes on it.  39,000 songs.

Some of it I can trash easily...some country music, some rap, some classical stuff I'll never listen to, but much of the stuff on it is like a gold-mine.

Practically every Beatles song ever recorded, same with AC/DC, Led Zep, and a whole lot more.  Quite possibly my best purchase ever!  I went from having vitually no mp3s to having a major collection instantly.

[~Caligula~]

u can consider yourself a criminal from now on

[SOB]

You're going to hell Curvy.



















Look me up when you get there.  

[midnight Target]

Looks like Hell has some pretty decent background music.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Curval
Practically every Beatles song ever recorded

I thought you said it was a friend. What did you do to tick him off?

[Boroda]

A 200GB HDD: $90. An external USB/FireWire 3.5" HDD case: $30. I mean Moscow prices, in the US it should be cheaper. Go figure.

I simply carry my Samsung 200GB HDD with me in a box, I have a PATA cable and power sticking out of my PC at home, and I have no case at all at work, 2x2 IDE channels on motherboard plus 2x2 channels on a PCI controller board.

If SATA could give me a "hot-plug", I mean - plugging an HDD without turning off main power - I'll probably buy a SATA disk. I plug HDDs in and out at work when I have no time, but I burned down an IDE controller on my Pentium-I machine 8 or 9 years ago doing this, so it's not a way for everyday usage....

[Curval]

I don't live in the US.

I live on a small island which requires shipping and duty to be paid on everything.

This is a one touch back-up Maxtor drive, not some thrown together jury rigged Russian thingy.

I connect it to my hub by ethernet connection.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Curval
This is a one touch back-up Maxtor drive, not some thrown together jury rigged Russian thingy.

"Russia, America - everything is made in Taiwan!" (c) Armageddon

[Furball]

EBAY IT!

[Dinger]

I don't live in the US either.
Last fall, I had to buy an external HDD and enclosure in an island country in the mediterranean with extremely high prices.
Just the enclosure cost me $60. The 250 MB HDD was around $200.
I try to make as many of my hardware purchases as possible when I'm in home.


Dang, Moscow is actually cheap for some things. I never knew that Boroda.

[Vulcan]

A *real* friend would leave porn on it, not some gay music collection.

[bj229r]

I was talking to a manufacturer's rep for a digital video recorder company the other day...they had to recall 50 THOUSAND units due to faulty Maxtor hard drives...then they found the U.S. government doesnt allow Maxtor hard drives in their computers for the same reason (said company switched to Western Digital)