Cheap Firewire-400 500GB Drive?

[Sam3]

[quote mrlynn]...

Not bad. The Mercury Elite-Al units are warranteed by OWC for two years.

/Mr Lynn
I guess that helps explain some of the price difference between the Neptune and the Mercury Elite series.

I'm still intrgued by the 1 Sale a Day offering of the 320 GB Acomdata for $69. I don't necessarily need one, but for $69....

[mrlynn]

Update: The Seagate 750 refurbs are sold out.

However, Dell has the same Seagate (new) in a 500GB configuration (USB 2.0, FW 400, e-SATA) for $130:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/produ...u=A0973921&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=BA&cid=30322&lid=680413

UPS ground shipping is free, but Dell charges sales tax, which for me would be $6.50.

This unit has a five-year warranty!

It comes with Time-machine-like software for Windoze (pre-formatted), so for Macs you'd have to format the drive, but that's easy enough.

This is tempting, as it's a great warranty and cheaper than the OWC Neptune (for me $136 vs. $153). What's the advantage of the Neptune? The ProSoft application, maybe. But a five times longer warranty is worth. . .?

Sam3, did you get the Acomdata?

/Mr Lynn

[Sam3]

Mr Lynn, no I didn't. They had sold out of them by the time I went to purchase it, which was some minutes after I posted above.