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Cheap source for 500gb IDE hard drives?

 
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:57 am    Post subject: Cheap source for 500gb IDE hard drives?
I'm looking for 2 or 3 500gb IDE hard drives. Must be IDE, must be 500gb.

Anyone got a cheap source?
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:48 pm    Post subject:
Cheap, no, $75 and up based on shopbot.ca

Why not just get a SATA controller card and a few 500GB SATA drives? NCIX usually has one on sale for $39 each week.
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:49 pm    Post subject:
It's not for a PC. It's for the DVD/PVR's

That's why it MUST be IDE
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:55 am    Post subject:
anyone?
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:16 pm    Post subject:
USB cabinets could still be IDE. Maybe you could find some and butcher.
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:30 pm    Post subject:
http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/hard_removable_drives/ultra_ata_500gb

$52

Like old ram prices are going up on these for the high capacity for older formats
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:48 pm    Post subject:
I would get a 2TB SATA drive and one of these little adapters. It might even be cheaper.

http://www.cooldrives.com/sahadradtoid.html
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:26 pm    Post subject:
MrGogo wrote:
I would get a 2TB SATA drive and one of these little adapters. It might even be cheaper.

http://www.cooldrives.com/sahadradtoid.html


You could but it wouldn't work. This is a Magnavox DVD recorder max 500gb IDE drive, it won't work with IDE to SATA adaptors, from what I have read. I'll stick with the 500gb IDE drives.
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