NewEgg Deals for Black Friday

I know I’m not the only geek here who shops regularly at NewEgg. I’m also pretty confident that I’m not the only person who won’t set foot in a store on Black Friday, but who loves deals. Here are some of the NewEgg deals I saw that jumped out at me:

  • Garmin’s Nuvi 205W GPS (4.3″), $99.99, a $90 savings. I love my Nuvi. (Although the maps are a bit out of date…)
  • The Nuvi 265WT GPS ($159.99, a $110 savings) also has a 4.3″ LCD, but adds live traffic feeds, and apparently acts as a Bluetooth speakerphone.
  • The TomTom GO 630 is the 265WT’s rival, though it seems to lack traffic. $169.99, a $129.96 savings.
  • Hitachi’s 2TB, 7200RPM SATA disk is $159.99 (a $10 savings), but there’s also a $30 mail-in rebate. Limit 5 per customer on the drives, not sure on the limits on the rebate.
  • If you need size but not speed in your laptop, there’s a Western Digital 640GB notebook hard drive (SATA), 5400RPM with a measly 8MB cache, though. $89.99.
  • Acer Aspire EasyStore H340, an Atom-based NAS with 2GB RAM, a terabyte of storage, and, apparently, 4 hot-swap drive bays. $299.99, a $100 savings. It comes with Windows Home Server, though I’d probably wipe it and put OpenFiler on it. And running a NAS on a single hard drive is a very bad idea: you move all your documents to one computer, so it has better run RAID across 2 or more drives. (Hmm… Pop a pair of the 2TB drives in it…)
  • Hanns-G has a 28″ LCD, 1920×1200, for $259.99, a $80 savings. With free shipping.

One thought on “NewEgg Deals for Black Friday

  1. The EasyStore NAS doesn’t do hardware RAID. Perhaps not surprising for a $299.99 computer with hot-swap bays and Gigabit Ethernet, but still. Many cheap motherboards do RAID these days.

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