23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
8:24 a.m.
It's better than paying the $12.95 + tax at the BestBuy.
Over the past couple of weeks I've bought three NEW 9GB SCSI hard disks up to
$39 each, shipped. Now, these are 7200RPM drives, but, using Adaptec's
benchmark, they outperform the 8GB Quantum Atlas II (10Krpm) drives by about
25% in random transfers of 32KB blocks.
I had one drive (not one of the ones above) arrive non-functional, and within
10 minutes of letting the seller know, my $$$ was back in my own PayPal
account. On a few occasions, I've been outbid, much to my frustration, but I
certainly can't complain. I've bought lots of things and never felt I got
hurt on merchandise that arrived intact. It does p*ss me off when stuff is
shipped UPS and gets lost or damaged, which appears to be the rule rather than
the exception with UPS. Then I get my $$$ back but lose the bargain.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)
Are you saying
that paying $9 for that
cable is a "good deal" where you are?
If I was in need of it, yes. Any type of external SCSI cable
bought locally will likely cost more than that, especially the newer
types. If you're able to find them used at thrift stores or whatnot,
that's fine, but it's my experience that you rarely find much SCSI
anything at thrift stores. At least in the areas I've frequented.
You can also go to the sellers at the big computer shows and maybe
pay less than that but it will cost you $5 or so to get into the show
so it doesn't make much sense to go just to buy that cable.
Jeff
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