The fast  hybrid SSHD Seagate models can be bought new for less than $120,
maybe $100 by careful eBay shopping.

Seagate Laptop SSHD 1 TB,Internal,5400 RPM,2.5" (ST1000LM014)

Mine is 4 times faster than my "standard" 1 TB 5400 drive.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Coleman
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 3:05 PM
> To: TCLUG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Sata Drive
>
> $100 for 1TB, or even less today.
>
> I think I saw 500GB 5400s for $30 or $40.
>
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:23, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>
> > I have bunches of 'em. You can have one of the not-awesome
> ones (; I should point out though that new 7200RPM
> spinny-disk laptop harddrives are dirt cheap nowadays.
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Samael Anon wrote:
> >
> >> I am working on a website for someone and my hard drive
> went bad.  using a
> >> live version of Ubuntu but have to reinstall gimp, etc.
> anyone have an old
> >> laptop sata drive sitting around?
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