On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 14:16, Brian Strassman wrote: > > Nate Straz wrote: > > > > I've seen ads for the "Super Computer Sale" at Canterbury Park this > > weekend. Do people really find good deals at this show? Is it worth > > going? > > > > I've been to some shows in the past, but I don't find their $8 admission > > charge worth the show. Compared to online prices, I don't see the > > point. > > > > What does everyone else think? Should I just find a good online shop or > > is it worth driving to Shakopee this weekend to find some deals? > > > > Nate > > > > P.S. I'm shopping for storage at the moment, probably a few IDE drives > > and an extra controller. > > > Good luck finding standalone controllers. I went to the last > sale at the Fairgrounds looking for an IDE RAID card for > my Windoze box, and came up bust. Plenty of vendors with > plenty of motherboards w/onboard RAID, but no standalone IDE > RAID cards, and I don't think I saw any standalone > IDE cards at all at any of the vendor booths. > This squares with my take on such things: going to one of these things with some disposable money -- and a desire to find some neat stuff, preferably old neat stuff cheap, usually works. Going to find a specific thing, at a good price, probably is less likely. Realistically, if you're looking for IDE drives, you're probably not going to find much more bang for the buck than, say, a 60GB EIDE ULTRA-ATA/100 DESKSTAR 7200RPM 60GXP from IBM for $113.50, as a quick search at ZDnet reveals. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------