Best deal so far in 2006! Available to most people with access to high tech chain stores.

Get top-quality hard drives for under 25 cents a gig! (My criteria: 25 cents is stupendous, 33 cents is wonderful... particularly when applied to the highest quality drives.) This week (through 16 September at CompUSA: Seagate ATA drives. 250GB for $60 (after rebates). Seagate drives come with a five year warranty, and are generally rock-solid.

We buy Seagate drives and put them in external enclosures to achieve low cost, reliable, external backup media.