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  • Memory May Be Less, But IBM 75GXP's...

    The two IBM 30GB 75GXP's I got last week for $136 each are up to $142 and climbing due to shortage,says my supplier.
    MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
    Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
    512MB regular Crucial PC2100
    Matrox P
    X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0
    LianLiPC70

  • #2
    I think that IBM is just moving to larger capacities. The 45GB gxp I bought from buy.com for $172 is now $163 (and $197 down to $183 for the retail), and the 30GB is $160.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Anbody know where I can buy another drive for my SCSI RAID array? 9.1 GB IBM Ultrastar 9ES (39130W). Seems shops are only selling the Ultra 160s these days.
      <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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      • #4
        http://www.computer-smarts.com/hdibm.html

        http://www.genmicro.com/hard_drives.htm

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        • #5
          Thanks Brian, but Computer Smarts wants $499 for that drive, and an OEM version at that. I only paid $338 for the real deal, and that was almost two years ago. I may send off a query to Genisys: Too bad they don't post their pricing or shipping rates. Have you ever bought anything from them?

          Anybody else know of some good pricing on this drive?
          <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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          • #6
            No sorry,I haven't dealt with either of these vendors.

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            • #7
              xortam, I went to pricewatch and did a search for 39130 and came up with 3 companies that look like they are actually selling this thing still. BTW, if you go to IBM's site and look up the drive, it's obviously an older model, which is also evident cause you bought your first one 2 years ago, so it's entirely possible that it has been discontinued.

              Anyway, here are the three sites. I checked through them and it looks like they have the right model, but you are probably best off calling them to make sure.

              http://www.basoncomputer.com
              http://www.driveguys.com
              http://www.compuview-ms.com

              Hope thats what you are looking for.

              Ian
              Primary System:
              MSI 745 Ultra, AMD 2400+ XP, 1024 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, 3Com 3c905C NIC,
              120GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, 60 GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, Pioneer DVD 105S, BenQ 12x24x40 CDRW, SB Audigy OEM,
              Win XP, MS Intellimouse Optical, 17" Mag 720v2
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              Epox 7KXA BIOS 5/22, Athlon 650, 512 MB Crucial 7E PC133 SDRAM, Hercules Prophet 4500 Kyro II, SBLive Value,
              3Com 3c905B-TX NIC, 40 GB IBM UDMA 100 HD, 45X Acer CD-ROM,
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              • #8
                Thanks! You're right ... I do believe the drive is discontinued which makes the hunt that more thrilling.

                Here's the spec's on my drive. CompuView didn't have the drive but they had a DNES-309170 which looks close enough ($174): 7 ms seek (vs. 7.5), 2 MB cache (vs. 512 KB). I'll have to check out the performance a bit more on the IBM site.

                Bason had the same drive for $209. Didn't find anything on Drive Guys.

                I'm going to have to hunt around some of the local SCSI shops and see if I can find one. I know of a couple good shops here in the valley for everything SCSI. I've got some other options if I don't find my exact drive in factory fresh condition.
                <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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