On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Scott Dier wrote: At ~$20/gig its quite a ways off from being a good deal at the moment. When HD's are $3-4/gig its hard to not sport for one of them first. Get the MO discs down to a couple bucks each and it will be a good deal. Of course, if a particular manufacturer were to give me a free drive I'd probably buy the media anyway, but not if i have to drop 3+ bills on a drive. Ouch. Bleeding edge... > * Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com> [001212 15:06]: > > I think they'll be around $400 when they are released. They are 640MB > > I see some on buy.com for 300ish i thought... > > verbatim's site is around $30 each, but buy.com has TDK media for $11.27 > > Yeah. > > Big upsides about MO: A) its durable, 50 year shelf life supposedly. > > B) 10million R/W cycles. Eat that CDRW. > >