Friday·18·April·2008
Harddisk prices gone mad //at 17:47 //by abe
Cut and paste from Brack’s SATA harddisk pricelist:
Samsung SpinPoint S166, HDD, 80GB, 7200rpm, 8.9ms, 8MB Cache, SATA II NCQ, OEM, 3.5'', SAH-HD082GJ CHF 53.00 Samsung SpinPoint S250, HDD, 250GB, 7200rpm, 8.9ms, 8MB Cache, SATA-II NCQ, OEM, 3.5'', SAH-HD250HJ CHF 64.00 [...] Samsung SpinPoint T166s, HDD, 400GB, 7200rpm, 8.9ms, 16MB Cache, SATA-II NCQ, OEM, 3.5'', SAH-HD403LJ CHF 109.00 Samsung SpinPoint T166s, HDD, 500GB, 7200rpm, 8.9ms, 16MB Cache, SATA-II NCQ, OEM, 3.5'', SAH-HD501LJ CHF 101.00
So from 80 GB to 250 GB the price difference is less than CHF 10 and 500 GB harddisks are cheaper than 400 GB harddisks of the same type? We live in a strange world.
And no, none of this harddisks is marked as special price or promotion.
Oh and for all those not having CHF as your daily currency:
| CHF | EUR | USD |
|---|---|---|
| 1.00 | €0.626417 | $0.997506 |
| 1.59638 | €1.00 | $1.5924 |
| 1.0025 | €0.627983 | $1.00 |
(Rates from x-rates.com.)
Tagged as: Brack, CHF, EUR, Euro, harddisk, price comparison, Samsung, USD
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Dilbert.com changed - to the better //at 13:04 //by abe
nion argues about the new Dilbert.com website now using flash instead of GIFs.
Well, he hasn’t looked right: Dilbert.com offers now flash and static images. And the last ones are now much easier than ever to view or fetch, because Dilbert.com now has RSS feeds. Ok, at the moment, the feed seems broken respectively empty, but I have the last week of Dilbert comics in my feed reader. In colour!
Additionally Dilbert.com is opening its archive. (The link to the blog post currently broken, too.) Back to 2001 is said to be available now, the reminder is in the works
The new Dilbert.com site worked fine yesterday but seems to have some problems today. But I expect that they will fix that soon. :-)
Noticed it btw. because the inofficial Dilbert
feed from tapestry included a broken image yesterday. (Works fine
now, but no new comic in that feed today…)
Tagged as: Dilbert, Flash, nion, Other Blogs, Planet Debian, webcomic
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