[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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