[TriLUG] Bye bye Tiger

[Michael Kimsal via TriLUG]

> I do not miss Tiger, since the price is  a way overpriced. the last visit
was 3.5 years ago a when need desperately 500G HD to replace a bad drive on
my raid5 system.

IIRC, around 3-4 years ago, there was some big jump in drive prices across
the board due to some bad weather in SE Asia.  If it was around that time,
don't blame Tiger too much for high pricing on drives.

I generally found TD's prices to be OK - didn't think they had sky high
prices, and sometimes they had good deals.


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:17 PM, tj via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Before moving to Raleigh due on job offer, I used to go to Fry's  that
> located next to Gwinnett Place Mall, and microcenter that not far from
> Fry's
> they had always good deals that lower or equal  online price (newegg
> mostly).
>
> Fry's has  many electronic-parts, and not very expensive compared buying
> online+shipping fee(+ taxes too).
> I still remember Marietta sales tax was 5% :D. and Gwinnett was ~6%
>
> one warning on Fry's, they mostly repackage return item and sell as a new
> item.
> I had some situation, when some cables were missing, even they said
> re-pakcaged new item.
>
> I do not miss Tiger, since the price is  a way overpriced. the last visit
> was 3.5 years ago a when need desperately 500G HD to replace a bad drive on
> my raid5 system.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Lee Fickenscher via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > I agree with the population density comment. It's probably why Charlotte
> > got the Ikea instead of Raleigh.
> > But there are 2 Fry's in GA and I don't think shipping from Asia/CA to NC
> > would be higher than Asia/CA to GA.
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:32 AM, C TC via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > /\ /\ /\  This is why a big box shop won't last here. We are not a
> dense
> > > enough population. Between having Intrex,
> > > and considering the fuel cost Vs. shipping costs; I've been to those
> big
> > > boxes in Raleigh (from Hillsborough) only
> > > a handful of times. I also believe Fry's prices would be higher in our
> > area
> > > based on Asia > USA shipping/trucking.
> > >
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