University of Michigan Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate student.

Sweet sweet hard drive

4 Dec 2001

I decided over the weekend that I needed more hard disk space. 140GB of storage just wasn’t doing the trick. I then proceeded to go to Best Buy, where I thought I was going to buy 60 GB more. The idea was simple: buy a cheap 60 GB EIDE drive, pop it in my computer, and I’m ready to go. However, I noticed a great deal in the store. Best Buy had priced the 60 GB hard drives at $170. The 80 GB was priced at $250. And low and behold, the 120 GB was priced at $200! The specs were the same on every hard drive. I thought that maybe it was defective, but then again I can always return it. So I took the chance and bought the drive. It works like magic. I got it installed and partitioned in about half an hour. Now I have 260 GB of storage. Joy.