walked into GW yesterday and straight to another WD external HD. (650GB)
2 pounds @ $1.59 per. Did extensive testing and think it's ready for prime time.
New PC currently has 4.5 TB of spinning storage ..
oh yeah , even my old backup PC had died last year and was just sitting around looking sad. Was in a thrift 2 days ago and noticed a Gateway P4 3 ghz with 2 GB RAM and a 150GB drive and DVD reader & burner drives .... very clean ..for $10 . snatched it up.
I won't do much work on it , but it does have built in video & sound and runs along nicely. Has XP PRO . My MD authoring software won't run on W7 , only XP, so this will be my new MiniDisk writing setup.