Now $40 PLUS $15 Shipping = $55. Nice, but not THAT nice.
For essentially the same case, without the wierd front panel and with a "traditional" front panel, check out the "NZXT BETA EVO Classic."
$60 less $20 MIR = $40 with free shipping. Take an additional $10 off w/ promo code...
Fry's has the Seagate model # wrong. It is probably really ST31000340.
If so, it MAY be an ES.2 Enterprise model, which would make it a VERY good deal. Off to Fry's to check it out...
Hmmm... from the size, I would say it is a 1 TB drive with a bad platter, so they downsized and sold it anyway rather than throw away.
I dont' know what that says about the long-term reliability, but I am not impressed.
There is an extended discussion of this here:
Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS
http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/...-super-desktop-os.aspx
Even new drives are flaky enough these days. Buying a refurb, even with full warranty (which these do NOT have) is playing Russian Roulette with your data. Hard drives are cheap, data and time are expensive.
The solution to that is to get a one-time credit card # from your card issuer, and put a limit of, say, $65 in the one-time card. Then they won't just be able to TAKE your money...
I imagine that is the same 40% off code that has been in effect for close to two years now. It does work, and should be easy to Google. Good deals on UPS systems... especially if you need more than one.
If you buy one UPS, they'll charge you $18 shipping. The crazy thing is, if you buy 4...
If you have trouble picking up HDTV over the air signals, then check this out:
AntennaWeb.org
The site will map your house, show you where all local OTA broadcast towers (all towers, or just HDTV towers) are, in what direction and how far away. It will also suggest an appropriate antenna...
For the curious but uninformed: This is an Antec TruePower Trio 650-Watt ATX CPU Power Supply, Model: 23650, regularly $150 but on sale for $100 (no rebate).
One gigabyte of PC3200 RAM of unknown providence, "almost worth" $450?
What you been smokin'?
Note that it does not come with Windows, or driver disk, or burning software, or DVD player software.
You can but a NEW, IN-THE-BOX, GUARANTEED Dell for less than this.
Noise level 0.6 sones? WTF? Who uses sones any more?
FYI, 0.6 sones is approximately 25 dBa. Not dead quiet, but you'd hardly notice it running.
Note the alternative product listed on the product page (use the VARIANT link):
Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 AMD Socket Cooler. Also with a...
Totally wrong.
An important part of your credit score is the ratio of debt to available credit. The more of your available credit you are using, the worse you look.
Opening a new credit card increases your available credit and make you look better.
Assuming you pay it off every month...
A drive which is KNOWN to have had problems, supposedly fixed, and with a puny 1 year warranty... why not buy a Seagate 250 or 300 for about the same money?
As usual, 35 of the so-called 95 tools are throwaway items... allen wrenches, screwdriver bits, etc.
Years ago, Sears would count a box of cotter pins as "100 tools".
The mini-fridge (actually, micro-fridge, just bix enough for a six-pack) is junk. It lasted about 2 weeks and then the cooling faded to nothing over the next 2 weeks.
Check out this FREE software that converts one or more disk drives and an old P.O.S. computer from the junk shelf into a Network Attached Storage device:
Naslite Network File Server
Actually, yes. One of your credit score items is the ratio of your debt to your available credit.
Say that you now have one card with a $10,000 limit and owe $5,000 on it. You are using 50% of your available credit. Now you open another card with a $10,000 limit, but maintain the same...
NINETY WHOLE DAYS of warranty!
And a Maxtor to boot, which is already like your data having one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel!
And the price! Why, a new Seagate with a 5 year warranty would cost $10 or $15 more than the used Maxtor. What savings!
Wow, sign me up...
This is all OLD (ie, on the verge of obsolete) stuff. Old MB. Athelon 32 CPU (now replaced with the new chip). And a 512 MB memory chip, which isn't BAD, but I would be looking at 1GB chips now.
And there is the rebate business. Plan on the combo costing $200 and if you get the rebate, it...
Guys... this product is NOT, repeat NOT the M$ Office Student and Teacher Version.
This is a NEW product that is actually called M$ Student.
M$ Student info page
These ARE useful in certain situations... for instance, if you have an older Dell running WIn98 or WinME or even Win2000 and you want to install XP. A Dell OEM Windows CD will install and upgrade on any Dell computer...
I was very disappointed when I put in a Gigabit PCI card. Max transfer was about 25 mBps, even though the drives could do twice that locally. The motherboards with the built in Gigabit bypass the PCI bottleneck...
Still, 25 mBps with the gigabit lan beats 10 mBps with 10/100 lan.
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