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From: chrisv on 22 Nov 2006 16:04
mm wrote:

>The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
>good. :)

SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.

From: mm on 22 Nov 2006 17:48
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:39 -0600, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>mm wrote:
>
>>The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
>>good. :)
>
>SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.

Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164
dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60
dollars.

Did I get one of the prices wrong?

(BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5
characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print
WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're
not interchangeable) would be in the suffix.

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From: Andy on 22 Nov 2006 20:23
About $44 for either:
<http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>


On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:48:18 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:39 -0600, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>mm wrote:
>>
>>>The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
>>>good. :)
>>
>>SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.
>
>Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164
>dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60
>dollars.
>
>Did I get one of the prices wrong?
>
>(BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5
>characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print
>WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're
>not interchangeable) would be in the suffix.
>
>If you are inclined to email me
>for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)

From: mm on 22 Nov 2006 23:39
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:23:33 GMT, Andy <1(a)2.3> wrote:

>About $44 for either:
><http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2002172/search=WD800>

wow. I see 2 possibilities. That site that wants 160 dollars is
mucho overcharging.

Or, it's a webpage from years ago. I haven't knowingly found any
sales sites like that, but once when I was looking for a particular
hamfest, I got many hits 6 of which were the announcment page, and all
gave a different day of the month. Only by looking at the calendar
and seeing which of those dates was a Sunday that year was I able to
tell which was that year's announcment.

No one puts dates on webpages, except news sources on some occasions,
and I was surprised to find out that even in the source code there is
no date. I thought the software would put it in automatcially.

And people don't include dates within the emails they write. They
rely entirely on the dates in the headers, even though many times
their text is copied and pasted with no headers. Often with no
attributionn lines, which could contain dates and times, but again,
many people don't set it up that way.

Still, I'm not convinced that I was looking at an old webpage.


>
>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:48:18 -0500, mm <NOPSAMmm2005(a)bigfoot.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:39 -0600, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>mm wrote:
>>>
>>>>The SATA drive is 3 times the price of EIDE at 80gigs. It must be
>>>>good. :)
>>>
>>>SATA drives are generally no more expensive than "EIDE" drives.
>>
>>Well, I found an online ad for a refurbished SATA WD800 for 164
>>dollars, and I think I saw an ad for a new non-SATA WD800 for about 60
>>dollars.
>>
>>Did I get one of the prices wrong?
>>
>>(BTW that is part of what stumped me, that they use the same first 5
>>characterss of the name for both. Mine has a suffix in small print
>>WD800JD, but I didn't think something that important (in that they're
>>not interchangeable) would be in the suffix.
>>
>>If you are inclined to email me
>>for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)


If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
From: mm on 22 Nov 2006 23:51
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:51:25 -0500, "Peter" <peterfoxghost(a)yahoo.ca>
wrote:

>http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1327&p_created=1109874364

Thanks. The jumper stuff explains a lot.



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