Price Guides June 2004: Optical and Magnetic Storage
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on June 19, 2004 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Not much has changed since our last write-up on hard drives. Prices have remained relatively idle with some models going up by a few dollars as others go down. One factor that is still alive and kicking with hard drives is the strong push by retailers for mail-in rebates in order to help generate more sales.For parallel ATA, the recommendations this week go to the drives with the best cost per gigabyte ratio. Western Digital takes the prize in the high-capacity arena with their ATA133 200GB, 7200 RPM, 8MB cache drive. Oddly enough, the 2MB cache version of this drive sells for slightly more than the 8MB version, which indicates to us that drive manufacturers are finally starting to push off from the 2MB models with a little more effort.
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SHO235V8 - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
Kristopher, great advice on the Nu Tech drive! I just built a new Athlon 64 rig and I prefer this burner over the DVD Rom drive I bought as a primary. Other than duplicating a disk, I will be using the Nu Tech drive. For anyone still undecided, that drive rocks!KristopherKubicki - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
PriceGaz - we will start doing that once we figure out a convention to label it easier.Kristopher
PrinceGaz - Monday, June 28, 2004 - link
There's five 12x burners listed in the pricing table.Any chance of including a "DL" in the table to indicate dual-layer certified drives? I know DL burning speeds are far slower (2x ?) and are unrelated to single-layer speeds, but it would still be useful to be able to see at a glance which are certified as DL capable.
MAME - Sunday, June 27, 2004 - link
only 1 12x burner? The article made it seem like there'd be more than 1