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Tigerdirect is selling a 300gb 5400rpm Maxtor drive along with a USB2.0 / firewire / fan-cooled enclosure as a package for $99 after a $20 rebate. Sweet combo, and that enclosure looks pretty damn phat.

Only snag that may scare some people off is the fact that it’s a refurb. When it comes to hard drives, I’ve had about 5 die on my in my home computers, and probably about 50 in my past few years of work — so I don’t think you’re at any advantage having a new drive. In fact, I bet you’re probably better off with a refurb’ed HDD. When they go back to the factory, you know they’re givin them extra special love, attention, and lots of testing to make sure they work right.

Update: No longer available..

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