[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

[Derek Linz]

A friend of mine just lost the drive in his MBP, I advised him to replace
it with a solid state given the mechanical drive price spikes and the fact
that he's got to pay for the labor to replace the drive -- at least for him
it made more sense to get a crucial M4 128GB for $200

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Amnon <amnon at deltaforce.net> wrote:
> >> Other than that, I thought about buying a new HDD, but when I looked
> >> at Newegg they had a very slim selection. I guess the floods in Asia
> >> really are causing a lack of hard drives.
> >
> > Lack ???  Try pricing out the roof !!!
> >
> > You can do better by buying a portable drive at BestBuy (which did not
> > updated their drives for some reason) take the drive out of the case and
> use
> > in your laptop.
> >
> > Shalom Y'all
> > Amnon Nissan
> >
> > Deltaforce
>
> Yes, price is becoming a big issue. I may look at some of the local
> shops for external drives and pull the drive out.
>
> Thanks
> Brian
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