IDE Hard Drive Availability

We regret to inform you that we are no longer able to sell hard drives except for a select few that you cannot put on compact flash cards.

It has just become too hard to find good used IDE drives at a reasonable cost and for that matter just too hard to find good hard drives period. The last quantity of drives I purchased more than half failed. IDE drives are just too old and have become too unreliable to sell. For the cost difference I cannot understand why anyone would consider purchasing a drive over a compact flash card as they will out last drives by years as they have no moving parts inside to go bad.