Steal on hard drives!

By SirEvan
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Shifty

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SioPao, you should work for echostar!! thats where i work!! just down at the 460/I-81 interchange!!

I did order just 1 drive just for kicks. i hope i get it!!

i can assume that they are NOT making a profit off the drives at that low price, wholesale on those drives in 1000 quantities is like

$60/drive!!

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Ya, it is much better for the company in the long run as far as customer satisfaction, return buyers, and word of mouth referrerals. But in all honesty, when people are ordering 8-10 drives each, it's almost absurd. Almost abusing their good nature if they honor the price. That's why I thought the 1 drive per household would be a good compromise.

and i agree with that also. I i recieved one drive i'd be happy. Not as happy as the TWO that i ordered, but extremely happy. ;)

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SioPao

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SioPao, you should work for echostar!! thats where i work!! just down at the 460/I-81 interchange!!

I did order just 1 drive just for kicks. i hope i get it!!

Haha, I'm doing a co-op out in Roanoke now. I go to V-Tech, still living in Blacksburg. When this is over, I may try to work for someone like Echostar over the summer since I'm staying here for classes.

And ya, I ordered just 1 160 in my first order. But later I ordered the 250 and maybe another 160, don't really remember.

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Same here!!! Let's hope and pray! I got 4 of those 200's for a RAID0...I just don't know where to store them, LOL!

you would have some sweet speed on those!! you might even manage to saturate

your PCI bus!! and to have 800GB w/ that speed... (me drools...)

if you need help storing them, you could always gut an old case of its

3.5inch rack and get some liquid nails and fasten it somewhere inside your case.

other than that make them external drives w/ firewire or usb2!!

if all else fails i have a full tower server case that can hold 8 3.5 inch drives!!

you can put them there... in my house... eh eh eh :devil:

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