eBay bargains - what's your latest conquest?

[Certificate of Excellence]

$17? I paid a lowly £7 for my 120GB and it wasn't that long ago. How things change. I thought that 120GB drives were going to be phased out as they were getting too cheap to bother with.

They were getting so cheap, I started buying 240gb ssd instead of the 120s for similar if not identical money. I was talking to someone yesterday who said they were buying 120s nib for $13 which is like around 9 pounds. 7 ?!? I never found them that cheap though lol 😆

Now they’ve got us over a barrel.

I did pick up a couple Apple HD5770s from eBay for $20 last week.

 

[weckart]

I picked up 4 MSI 240GB SPATIUM S270 SATA drives for £12 each when Amazon decided to have a pre Black Friday kind of sale. A slight cut above the ususal budget Kingspec/Fanxiang/Patriot offerings. I miss those days. I suppose the suppliers must have been hurting a bit as they can't have made too much on each.

 

[DisraeliGears]

So I celebrated Apple 50 by finding a local G4 Cube

I wasn't quite done tinkering with the G5 iMac, but I'm not really in a major metro and had to jump at the chance for a Cube. It's in pretty fantastic shape except it did not come with the power supply 🙁 I was reading 68kMLA and there were some alternative power supply suggestions there that I'm going to explore.

 

[AdamBuker]

Just got this bad boy that I'm going to hook up to the G5 and run with Logic Pro 8. It's replacing an old analog mixing board running through a Lexicon Lambda. While my current set up works, this will allow me to also have a control surface to control Logic directly. It will make programming automated fader moves much easier. Plus I don't need all the inputs and outputs that my old analog board has. That thing was more suited for mixing live bands than a one-man personal studio.