Thanks trainwreck, I'm going to staple and bestbuys to try this deal right now.
Simplified:
1)Grab a staples flyers from their store showing $99.94 for the hardrive.
2)Take it to Best buy and pray they price match their $129.99 price for the same harddrive.
3)Best buy drive has a $30 rebate and $20 gift card
4)Get drive for ~$48.50 after price match, rebate, and silly $20 gift card
As for the OD deal, it'll be very hard to get it to work.
I think, still not sure, these are 4 platters drives 10 gigs each, I have a maxtor 30 gig version with 3 platters. Mine has a 15000 winbench 99 high end score....
storage review has 24000 score for the new maxtor(4 x 40 gig platter) ones. Does anyone know if RAIDING 2 x 40 gigs of these will be faster than just getting a new 80 gig(40 gig platter) one?