$49.95 Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 8MB 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive

[sun818]

Seems likea good price for the specs. Some of these drives can run hot. I bought four for my RAID setup.

http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/17023

 

[allisolm]

These are "Items pulled out of working machines that are now being sold for parts."

 

[esquared]

These guys reopened at another location, on Caribbean Drive. They used to be located across the street from the original, vacant Sunnyvale Fry's on Kern Ave. The original Weird Stuff is pretty close (a mile or less) to another surplus/used/weird stuff-kinda-place called Computer Surplus that gets posted here. The original location for Computer Surplus (when they were known as Software and Stuff), was across the street (Lawrence Expressway) from the original Weird Stuff location. There is also another geeky/used/surplus computer store called Action Computers that's still in the same attached buildings where Computer Surplus (aka Software n Stuff) used to be.

 

[htne]

On the "plus" side, they do have the remainder of a 5 year warranty from Maxtor. On the "minus" side, the lowest cost shipping to me (in Texas) was $9.16 for UPS Ground.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: htne
On the "plus" side, they do have the remainder of a 5 year warranty from Maxtor. On the "minus" side, the lowest cost shipping to me (in Texas) was $9.16 for UPS Ground.

I checked their shipping to Bangor Maine just to see how much and if the price is reasonable with multiple items or is it calculated like Newegg.
One of these drives was 7.30 UPS Ground across the country to 04401. Two drives only went to 7.90, 3 drives is 10.18. FedEx Ground rates are 1.00 to 1.50 above those of UPS Ground. Shipping seems reasonable to me. I wonder why your TX shipping is more than going all the way to Maine?

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: esquared

Originally posted by: htne
On the "plus" side, they do have the remainder of a 5 year warranty from Maxtor. On the "minus" side, the lowest cost shipping to me (in Texas) was $9.16 for UPS Ground.

I checked their shipping to Bangor Maine just to see how much and if the price is reasonable with multiple items or is it calculated like Newegg.
One of these drives was 7.30 UPS Ground across the country to 04401. Two drives only went to 7.90, 3 drives is 10.18. FedEx Ground rates are 1.00 to 1.50 above those of UPS Ground. Shipping seems reasonable to me. I wonder why your TX shipping is more than going all the way to Maine?

Probably some remote address that's in the outskirts of the main roads.

 

[spinn]

wow, not bad. and close to home. I think I paid $70 for a brand new 300GB at FRY's.