6GB Hard Drives - Why do people still buy them?!

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6GB Hard Drives - Why do people still buy them?!

#1 Post by underclocker » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:19 pm

I recently dusted off two 6.4GB laptop hard drives that I had in my personal inventory of old parts and placed them on eBay (Buy It Now) for $25 including shipping. Both sold in one day.

My question is, why do people need these drives? There are 20GB drives that sell for that daily, why don't people buy at least the 20GB units?

I mean drives have gone for $1 per GB on this board for a while. Help me understand.
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#2 Post by AlphaKilo470 » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:55 pm

6gb is the maximum BIOS supported capacity in many earlier Pentium notebooks made before 1998.
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#3 Post by 440roadrunner » Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:50 pm

I guess you can always partition the larger ones. Maybe people don't realize that you can get new ones that cheap......
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#4 Post by pianowizard » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:44 pm

Partitioning doesn't always solve the problem.
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