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#121015 - 15/10/2002 14:29 another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@compusa
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
CompUSA has a 40gb disk in a USB 2.0 enclosure. They also have a firewire version but that was sold out locally. Both local stores had 8 of these yesterday; A friend and I each bought one at one store.

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#121016 - 17/10/2002 15:39 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@compusa [Re: Daria]
Burgin
stranger

Registered: 11/08/2001
Posts: 47
What size? 3.5 or 2.5? Is it self-powered or is there an external power supply?

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#121017 - 17/10/2002 16:08 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@compusa [Re: Burgin]
Dignan
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12341
Loc: Sterling, VA
Doesn't really matter if it's sold out

But I'd imagine it would be a 3.5"
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#121018 - 17/10/2002 16:17 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@com [Re: Dignan]
jaharkes
enthusiast

Registered: 20/08/2002
Posts: 340
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I actually picked one up yesterday. It was at one of the CompUSA stored that dbrashear reported to have 8 each. Well I had a hard time finding it, because they almost hid the whole stack of 7 of 'em in a corner.

They are larger and heavier than I expected. Not really ultraportable. Internal powersupply. It looks like it is probably a generic enclosure that can fit pretty much any 3.5 or 5.25 size IDE drive. There is a 3.5" 40GB Samsung drive in it.

I grabbed the cheapest USB2.0 cardbus card I could find while I was at it. Compusa branded, but it uses the bog standard NEC chipset. Both the pccard and the drive worked with linux, some problems with the latest dev kernels, but I managed to copy a bunch of files back and forth.
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#121019 - 17/10/2002 16:37 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@compusa [Re: Daria]
tracerbullet
addict

Registered: 08/01/2002
Posts: 419
Loc: Minnesota
Sheesh, I just picked up a 60 Gig from Best Buy for $149 out the door, I thought that was a good deal...

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#121020 - 18/10/2002 05:30 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@compusa [Re: Burgin]
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
self-powered (plug in standard pc power cable) not usb-powered. 3.5" drive.

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#121021 - 18/10/2002 05:33 Re: another deal: 40gb usb2 disk $50 after mir@com [Re: jaharkes]
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Well I had a hard time finding it, because they almost hid the whole stack of 7 of 'em in a corner.

Wilkins? Yeah, I looked and looked and then heard a sales associate plugging them to someone, looked where he was standing, and lo....

Mine's actually at CMU now sucking down something like 30*450mb from Sweden. I figure it should be done right around when the guy who's sharing the files with me shows up at my house, a week from today

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