[mythtv-users] NAS power supply
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Fri Oct 10 18:54:42 UTC 2008
Matt Emmott wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com
> <mailto:yan at seiner.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, October 10, 2008 10:41 am, John Drescher wrote:
>
> >> I dunno. I would scrutinize those VERY carefully. I've seen what
> >> looked
> >> like good deals on drives online and once you get all the details it
> >> doesn't
> >> look so good anymore. I've seen that on pricewatch. Don't recall the
> >> details,
> >> just the dissapointment. '-)
> >>
> >
> > Those are Factory Recertified units
> >
> > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST3750330AS-R&cat=HDD
> <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ST3750330AS-R&cat=HDD>
>
> I got burned real badly long ago on cheap drives. No more - they're so
> cheap that saving a few bucks more isn't worth it.
>
> I want real drives, with real 5 year warranties, not 'recertified'
> drives
> with expired or 30 day warranties.
>
>
> Check out this handy-dandy price per gb calculator I just found. Looks
> like it only scrapes Newegg: http://forre.st/storage
PLEASE do not tell me you need some sort of online application to divide
the price by the capacity.
No wonder I keep running into alleged High School graduates who can't do
arithmetic :-)
beww
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