I bought it at Best Buy off Lyndale (or was it Ridgedale...). Its
performes great even though it takes 6-12 hours to fill it over
the network. :) My linux file server is now up to 200GB

I have to gloat:
hdb is the 80gig...all the IDE's are maxtor. md0 is 3 9.1gig
7200RPM seagates (linear) and sdd is a fujitsu 18gig 7200RPM):

/dev/hda1               256667    127831    115584  53% /
/dev/hda4              9669472   6233168   2945120  68% /home
/dev/hda3              2071416   1520840    445352  78% /usr
/dev/hdd1             29978112  24123416   5854696  81% /home/shared
/dev/hdc1             39995656  38133960   1861696  96% /home/mp3
/dev/md0              26623860  22828944   3794916  86% /home/mp3/128Kb
/dev/hdb1             79991492  78656968   1334524  99% /home/divx
/dev/sdd1             17830116  16499148   1330968  93% /home/divx/temp

I used to buy on line for drives when i was at school and best
buy was quite a drive. But now the $20 I'd save isnt worth dealing
with online stores. If i get home and its DOA i take it back and I
still have a working drive the same day. If its DOA though the mail
guess whos picking up the shipping charge to send it back...not them.
I tend to buy on line for stuff where i save a lot of money or
just cant find it locally for a good amount.

Just picked up a chapo DVD drive at best buy yesterday for
$99 to rip DVD's. Works awsome (for once I didnt get screwed
buying a noname brand).

Cheers


At 11:35 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jason DeStefano wrote:
>
>> 5400 is a pretty cheap way to go. The higher data density offsets
>> the lower spindle speed so for sustained xfers it should compete
>> well with 40-60gb 7200 rpm drives.
>
>Cool, useful info (:
>
>Did you get it online or at a store? I've bought HDDs online before but I
>don't knwo about an 80 gigger...
>
>
>-Yaron
>
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