Where to find deals on Hard drives
 

I used to buy from "Dirt Cheap Drives". I guess I haven't needed to buy one for a while, 'cause they're out of business...

Anyway, suggestions on a place to get a really good deal on notebook drives.

Best I've found so far is a 320GB, 7200 RPM for $69.99

I need 2 of them, for a RAID setup, which will be connected to my NAS device.

What I'd like:

7200 RPM
SATA
500GB (or more)
under $0.20/GB

they have to be notebook drives for NAS???

Any of the online guys like Tiger Direct or Newegg have great deals.

MicroCenter just opened in St. Louis - awesome computer store. Try Microcenter.com.

Like having a Newegg down the street.

I picked up a 1T 7200 32mg Cache drive for $69 last week.

This is off topic a bit but....

Back in the stone ages of the internet long before Google I had discovered that you can guess the web address of many places. I was showing this to the owner of the company I worked at. We needed a new hard drive so I typed in harddrive.com and it was a porn site. That was my first experience with on-line porn. I used Altavista for a search engine after that.

that' the thing, 320 gb for 69 is probably good for a notebook drive
but for 3.5 inch drives .20 cts to the GB is just not cheap at all

Buy Hard Drive, Laptop Hard Drives, Notebook Hard Drives, Data Recovery at DriveSolutions.com
bought a couple of drives from these poeple...

I typically shop the weekend circulars.

Always a loss leader available.

Or Newegg.com

320's for 69 is a good price.

What is your NAS built from? Are you using a PC in a standard case or a dedicated device?

Interesting product. InstaRAID IR12TB - Internal RAID 0/RAID 1 2 bay 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure

Another, Portable Dual Drive RAID enclosure from Addonics

If Firewire were available for connectivity I'd opt for that.

The RAID device I've purchased is a small form factor, and uses 2 SATA notebook drives. The RAID box was $19 and is USB.

I have a Buffalo Linkstation, which we're presently using as our file server for the business. I do not like the idea that this drive can go down and we lose our business data. I have it backed up on a daily basis, but that isn't the same.

I can keep using the internal hard drive for PC backups. But I want a RAID array for the business data. I would really prefer to buy one of these, but I would prefer not to spend $500-600 right now.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg

Western Digital ShareSpace 4 TB 4-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage with RAID 5 - WDA4NC40000N

LOL. I was looking for "In and Out Burger" back in the day and did the same thing. Who knew inandout dot com was not about hamburgers :)

Back on topic, +1 for TigerDirect.

Good consolidation of parts/prices Pricewatch shopping comparison | Find and Buy all types of Hard / Removable Drives at the lowest prices

I buy all of my hard drives from TigerDirect.com - Computers, Computer Parts, Computer Components, Netbooks & Electronics

FeeBay.

Here I am baby. A bit used, but damn cheap.

try this https://dealsnado.com/category/computing and get good deals on notebook and other Hard drives.