1st Post Ever - WD 30GB 7200rpm HD, $29 OfficeMax B&M

[TallBill]

gona check the local officemax tmoorrow

 

[cisco]

checking FL tommorrow (today!) its 6am now , thanks

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: HankD
My first 1 gig hard drive cost almost $400 (like $380ish) now 30 gigs for $30 bux from ~$400 a gig to $1 a gig..... I FEEL OLD!


Hank

I have you beat. My 1st 1GB hard drive was a SCSI one from Micropolis. It cost $990. Plus tax.

 

[Maetryx]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0

Originally posted by: HankD
My first 1 gig hard drive cost almost $400 (like $380ish) now 30 gigs for $30 bux from ~$400 a gig to $1 a gig..... I FEEL OLD!


Hank

I have you beat. My 1st 1GB hard drive was a SCSI one from Micropolis. It cost $990. Plus tax.

I can beat that. I got a Micropolis 1528 differential SCSI drive for $1150. It was technically 1.5GB, but after formatting it was 1280MB. It still works. It's about 6" right of my right knee cap in a DOS system that I don't use but have connected to my KVM.

 

[stonecold3169]

I doubt anyone will find these. These drives have been clearenced for literally a year. What happened is a whole bunch of clearance stuff was found in one of the distribution center and shipped out to various stores, with most of the same product going to one store.

Anyways, on the other hand, according to the person I talked to, this merchandise was NOT keyed into the computer system, so if you call and they tell you they don't have it, it's quite possible they really DO, hiding in their lockup or on the shelf with no record of it in their system.

Good luck you guys!

 

[chynkboi]

Originally posted by: stonecold3169


Anyways, on the other hand, according to the person I talked to, this merchandise was NOT keyed into the computer system, so if you call and they tell you they don't have it, it's quite possible they really DO, hiding in their lockup or on the shelf with no record of it in their system.

Good luck you guys!

Meaning, get off your lazy *** and goto the store =)

 

[elfnumber1]

mr wiggles, you should enable your PM's.

anyhow, which houston OMax did you go to? i'd like to know before i go out and waste my time. thanks!

 

[tallest1]

Hmm.... Hopefully I'll beat AphexII to the local OfficeMax. bwahaha

update: None on the shelves, none on the bargain table in Gainesville. When I asked 'em (in my wrinkled clothing, sandals, and w/ disfigured afro ) if they had any 30GB'ers in the back, the staff said that they didn't have any and gave me crazy stares until I left.

 

[Rusman]

Originally posted by: elfnumber1
mr wiggles, you should enable your PM's.

anyhow, which houston OMax did you go to? i'd like to know before i go out and waste my time. thanks!

Me too! Oh well, I'll just run over to the OM near Town and Country and see what they have. I'll report my findings when I get back.

 

[Rusman]

Bad news. Town and Country OM doesn't have them either. The employee I talked to said that they got about 12 in and the employees bought them all! Blah. Can't blame them though this is a hell of a deal!

 

[exharr]

Originally posted by: Morph

Originally posted by: Tanner
Kingie

EXCELLENT FIRST POST d00d! WOW!

Sounds like no one else can even find the drive for that price... so what's so excellent about the post?

One other person did. And it at least gives people a heads up to check for it. Of course your milage may vary. Overall, it is a good first post.

 

[Eltano1]

I just come back from the one near my house (I live in Miami), and of course, they didn't have any (actually the never had it at that price).

Eltano

 

[Mpowered]

thanks for the post, kingie. i drove 59 miles just to take the last one off of that store you went to in chandler. also called 7 different stores in the phoenix area and none of them had it in stock.

**EDIT** for my first post.

model: WD300BBRTL
# : 718037103471
sku??? : 244443516 (only 8 digit # i see on the receipt)

i have the scanned receipt but don't know how to send it to you guys. if allowed on this board, email me and i'll send it to ya.

 

[Eltano1]

Can you post the UPC # ? So maybe with I can find one around here.

Thanks and best regards

Eltano

 

[EvilYoda]

Thanks for the post, maybe I'll swing by on the way to the mall, that'd be a great HD for my g/f's new comp....

Nice first post! I know that my first post wasn't anything of a helpful nature.

 

[somethingwitty]

Originally posted by: Mpowered
thanks for the post, kingie. i drove 59 miles just to take the last one off of that store you went to in chandler. also called 7 different stores in the phoenix area and none of them had it in stock.

i've got the receipt with me in case anyone wants it. oh, yeah, my first post ever so i may not know what i'm doing in this board (all new to me).

there's a fine line between determination and insanity

can you post or PM the receipt? thanks

 

[Seizure]

Post the SKU or scan the receipt.

 

[SS4Goku]

heck ya, nice find

 

[thenewnoise]

Originally posted by: Mpowered
thanks for the post, kingie. i drove 59 miles just to take the last one off of that store you went to in chandler. also called 7 different stores in the phoenix area and none of them had it in stock.

i've got the receipt with me in case anyone wants it. oh, yeah, my first post ever so i may not know what i'm doing in this board (all new to me).

well i guess im not going out to chandler today, where in the world do you live that you could be 59 miles away

 

[NotesGuy]

Originally posted by: HankD
My first 1 gig hard drive cost almost $400 (like $380ish) now 30 gigs for $30 bux from ~$400 a gig to $1 a gig..... I FEEL OLD!


Hank

pfft... youngster.....

My first hard drive, a 20MB (yes, that's megabyte) HyperDrive for an original Mac (with a whopping 128KB of mem!) cost me $1,750. Doing the math, that's $87.50 per MB, or $87,500 per GB.

Compared to the 120GB drive that I just bought for $62 after MIR & PM, thanks to AT!!!!!, I'm thinking I might have overpaid a tad...

 

[Mpowered]

sorry guys. updated my post above. how in the world do i PM with the scanned receipt? looks like email is the only way i could do this for now.

 

[Creig]

Yep NotesGuy, we're in the same league. My first HD was a 20 megger as well. Used it on my Amiga 500 in the sidecar expansion enclosure and thought I had the world by the ass. Couldn't imagine what I was going to do with that much storage space but figured that at least it wouldn't become obsolete anytime soon.

 

[Sundog]

Would be nice!

 

[chynkboi]

The one in Duluth, Georgia doesn't seem to even have hard drives...lol

 

[ivan2]

nice find!!
good for playing with RAID 10