HDDs for Netfinity 5500

Fri Mar 21 15:33:43 PST 2003

hi ya

take off the housing ... what is inside ??

usually the plastic around the (maxtor/seagate/wd) disk drive is what the
extra $$$$ is for ...

and people complain about sun's disks being too expensive... :-)

c ya
alvin

i think a 10GB disk at SurplusComputer.com ( off 101 between
scott/lafayette ) is like $20

and there's always disk drive depot...

-- if the drive is dead... you may as well perform surgury and see
   what the "real drive" is

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, afactor wrote:

> Does anybody know a good place to get discontinued hard drives.
> Specifically I need to get some hard drives for an IBM Netfinity 550 midrange server.
> IBM has discontinued virtually all the parts for this old workhorse and they pointed me to their affiliate called Boulder Parts.
> Boulder parts gave me the following prices (and told me they are about out of these parts):
> 4Gb - $450
> 9Gb - $600
> 18Gb - $1000
> 
> Can anyone suggest an alternative?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
> afactor at afactor.com
> 
> 