hard drive shortage

[woodsmoke]

Sometimes "stocking up" isn't necessarily paranoia sometimes if being prudent.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57...disk-shortage/

woodsmoke

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: hard drive shortage

Sometimes "stocking up" isn't necessarily paranoia sometimes if being prudent.

kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=post;board=15.0

Okay, woodsmoke, is this a trick post?

[SteveRiley]

Re: hard drive shortage

Clearly, woodsmoke wants us to stock up on empty posts!

[oshunluvr]

Re: hard drive shortage

Psssst... wanna buy a slightly used hard drive?

[woodsmoke]

Re: hard drive shortage

sorry guys, the linky is now correct.
woodsmoke

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: hard drive shortage

sorry guys, the linky is now correct.

Well, shoot. We were just getting started.

[woodsmoke]

Re: hard drive shortage

lol
rub it in, just rub it in!!

woodsmoke

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: hard drive shortage

It had such potential! In fact, I think you ought to change the link back to its original state, so new readers to this thread can scratch their heads, too, and come up with smartass remarks!

Oh, but to get back to the actual topic of your OP, I'm just hoping I don't need a new drive while the shortage goes on. I suppose I'll cross that bridge if/when I come to it.

[ScottyK]

Re: hard drive shortage

I had a 500GB Western Digital notebook drive all picked out and was going to buy. Price back in October was $65, now the same drive at newegg is $149.

Forget it, I'll just make due with the 320 GB drive currently in the notebook.

[SteveRiley]

Re: hard drive shortage

My son's ancient HP is about to die. Last month I bought a new Lenovo to replace my wife's already dead HP; got a good deal. That was before the drive shortage. Same-spec machine (500 GB drive) is now $150 more.

(Edited; $400 seemed really high so I reran the configurator. Turns out I picked the wrong model before.)

[Snowhog]

Re: hard drive shortage

Me thinks that the woodsmoke's 'internal storage unit' was a bit full when he originally posted!