Those 8" drive prices are for new-in-the-box never used drives, incidentally. If I'm charging a customer $100 an hour to go on site and service their machine, I'm not doing them a favor by installing a heavily-used drive to save a few bucks. And if you want to compare prices, maybe you want to look in the back of a late-70's BYTE, see that a Shugart 801 sold for $350+ back then to hobbyists, adjust for inflation since then, and arrive at an adjusted price today of over $1000 for a new Shugart 801. California Digital's prices are a bargain by this method. I certainly can't justify keeping parts in my inventory for over twenty years! -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927