Category: Garage Sale
Drive is in great condition, great build quality, only used to backup. Not ran on a regular basis. Power supply etc included. Make me an offer via e mail or private message.
has someone already made you an offer on this thing?
I'm interested in it but I'm not sure how much to offer.
i thought maybe 100 but maybe that's too much?
Too little?
Ugg.
Just let me know
Amber
100 is too much to offer for a used 500 gig drive without any warranties towards the drive's performance. You can buy a brand-new hard drive, sealed packaging, warranty included, etc for 100 bucks, possibly even less.
Examples from Tiger Direct:
500 GB capacity/16 MB cache, fanless Phantom Titanium Drive with USB 2.0 and Firewire: $99.99.
500 GB capacity/16 MB cache, Beyond Micro drive with USB 2.0: $89.99.
Kai
wow, that's cheap for 500 gigs
arg
Get with the future and look for e.s.a.t.a
Forget USB, especially if you are transfering 1+gb at a time :P
It took me like... over 5 hours to transfer 350gb over USB 2.0, *sigh*
Not all of us have the motherboard/slots for ESATA. I, for one, don't have ESSATA ports on my computer and I'm not gonna buy an add-on card just for ESATA, either. Most often, you spend 20 bucks to 40 bucks to get but 2 or 3 ESATA ports. I'd rather use USB. Slower, sure, but why do you really need blazing speed anyway? I can also get Firewire 800, but that comes at a premium. And, again, I can't see a reason to require all that speed, especially since your hard drive probably won't really benefit from that extra bandwidth unless it's a 10,000 RPM drive.
Us regular consumers are rather happy with USB, I think. If nothing else, the numbers say so.
Kai
Well if 100 is too much then lol I dunno but i still haven't heard from the original poster so either he's not wanting to sell it still or he isn't looking at this board anymore so.
so, its usb vs the other thing spoke mentioned...question, for me, i need or want an external drive to keep music, books, dvs movies...what do u recomend? i am not versed ongb ect...idealy, i can afford about 150 dollars...any suggestions? ty in advance...i have a dell lap top...u can message me or post...again, ty. gizmo
USB works just fine, any of the hard drives mentioned above work good, buy.com also has a lot of 250 og 500gb hard drives, I'd take the 500 ones. Don't worry about ESATA, sure, you may only take 20 mins instead of an hour and a half to transfer your files (and that is only if you have, may be 3 or 4000 files to transfer) but I've never felt the disadvantage, for one thing the motherboard, front side bus or hard drive itself can become a bottle neck so the ESATA thing may not work for you at all, a system is only as fast as its slowest component.
Wow. I'll have to try this tiger direct. We went to target yeserday, and I saw a 500 gig external for 120 bucks. But, if I can get 'em cheaper at that site, definitly gonna try it. I just need something to run my FTP off of, so I can stop using my jump drive as a FTP, and winamp's music user for shoutcast, as my hard dirve isn't big enough, and if I put alll the files on it, I'll have maybe 100 megs free on the drive.
$120, I got my 750 external for 120 over at the office depo in my area.