250GB Hard Drive for $50. That's $0.20/Gig!

While gasoline prices are continuing to climb up and up and up and up and up and.... At least something else in life is getting cheaper -- storage. The price for hard drives have finally hit prices where they are really affordable for the masses.

And portable mass storage devices like this BeyondMicro 250GB external hard drive for $50 is a great deal. Paying only $0.20/Gig of Hard Drive space is a very very good deal right now. And it should be plenty for most PC users to back-up their desktop or laptop data + have more room for supplemental storage space for say, all the photos & video you keep taking with your ditigal camera and camcorder.

How to find this deal:
1) Go to http://ecost.official-promo.com
2) Search for item # 5131554

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I really need a Terrabyte (or part of one) for...

I've been always thinking about archiving the movies we have / watch, but doing a 1:1 archive of a DVD is VERY impractical. My friend always uses DivX, but I've been reluctant because of 2 things -- 1) I didn't have a way to play DivX movies back on my TV (vs. pc or laptop) and 2) I like watching movies with CC (subtitles) -- there's a lot that you miss without it at times.

But I finally picked-up a DivX DVD player (and ordered a portable 8.5 inch DVD player with DivX compatibility from OfficeDepot today for $130), so now I'm ready to figure out the subtitle issue and get going with archiving my movies.

The last problem is SPACE. Where am I going to store all that video data? At 2-4GB per full-length DVD movie, you can quickly fill up a hard drive. My desktop has 120GB, which I thought was huge when I first bought it, but now I see why my friend has multiple external USB hard drives totally over a couple of terrabytes of space -- for all those digital photos, video clips taken with the cam corder and camera phone, and video files.

Luckily storage is coming down so fast in price. It's quickly approaching the holy grail mark of a $0.25/gig. I found a 400GB drive for $119, which is fantastic. But perhaps I need to shell out just a little more for more space? Wow, can you believe I'm saying that 400GB is NOT enough? :-)