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Look at this thing
http://pictures.kyozou.com/pictures/_6/5253/5252209.jpg
http://ebay.auction.co.kr/detail.html?itemNo=350038916910&FeedBackPercent=99.5

73GB
10k rpm
2.5" form factor
avg latency 2.99 ms

$70 shipped!!! :eek:

The only problem it's a refurb by the very mysterious "world disk." I can't seem to dig up any information on these guys, but at this price point I'm almost ready to buy one anyway. Does anyone know anything more about these? What's the catch!?


UPDATE: I think this is the hard drive they have refurbished http://193.128.183.41/home/v3__product.asp?pid=502&inf=fsp&wg=83
 
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I've purchased a few of these refurbished drives by WorldDisk or ModusLink. A 147GB 10K MAP3147NC has been going fine for almost a year in my primary machine. A second 15K 36GB MAM3367NC ran fine for about half a year before it would start randomly whining. I had no problems getting data off of it however, and I got no data-related errors anyway.

Just recently I purchased a refurbished MAT3073NC for $30 with shipping. Its performance is comparable to the 73GB "GD" Raptor:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/be...&devID_0=306&devID_1=278&devID_2=259&devCnt=3
Hopefully I can put it to good use. :)
 
Phoenix '97 said:
I've purchased a few of these refurbished drives by WorldDisk or ModusLink. A 147GB 10K MAP3147NC has been going fine for almost a year in my primary machine. A second 15K 36GB MAM3367NC ran fine for about half a year before it would start randomly whining. I had no problems getting data off of it however, and I got no data-related errors anyway.

Just recently I purchased a refurbished MAT3073NC for $30 with shipping. Its performance is comparable to the 73GB "GD" Raptor:
http://www.storagereview.com/php/be...&devID_0=306&devID_1=278&devID_2=259&devCnt=3
Hopefully I can put it to good use. :)
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That's great! Information on these things is so scarce, it's ridiculous. I think i'm gonna get a couple of the 73gb's I linked to, for a raid 0 array.
 
Refurb for raid 0?

Sounds risky to me - not only are you doubling your chances of failure by going raid 0 - you're increasing that risk by using drives that have obviously had problems in the past.

If you're just running the os off the raid and have a seperate data drive I'd feel a bit more at ease - but I hate reinstalling even just the os and my programs. I'd get a good imaging program to back up the os to another drive at least weekly if you go for this.
 
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