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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2011, 11:03:02 PM »
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #31 on: November 07, 2011, 09:13:28 AM »
WD 2TB at Best Buy for $80. Better buy one now just in case. Who knows when prices will drop:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+Caviar+Green+2TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+Hard+Drive/9234465.p?id=1218064150518&skuId=9234465&slref=10&slloc=01

Nice!  This is the harddrive I've been buying and desperately needed a 3rd one!   freeleech has taxed my hd space.
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« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2011, 09:43:59 AM »
Nice!  This is the harddrive I've been buying and desperately needed a 3rd one!   freeleech has taxed my hd space.

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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #33 on: November 19, 2011, 09:58:49 PM »
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Seagate-HD-Stephen-Luczo-Toshiba-Western-Digital,14039.html

Not good news - 1 Year before back to normal production levels with at least 20% markup (from I would guess pre-flood prices) for the next 2-3 years afterwards
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #34 on: November 19, 2011, 11:59:38 PM »
damn!  my go to storage drive has gone up $10 ($69.99) with $8 shipping.  non sale price is usually $59.99 with free shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

it's $140 now!  :lol

$159...but it comes with a free computer case.  Guess people ain't buying drives atm, lol.  I got lucky...real lucky...grabbed a 2.5TB usb HDD off of J&R for a cool hundo when they hdd shortage started.
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #35 on: November 21, 2011, 11:25:51 AM »
Looks like Seagate is going to take upwards of a year to get back to normal:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Seagate-HD-Stephen-Luczo-Toshiba-Western-Digital,14039.html
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #36 on: November 21, 2011, 01:34:30 PM »
The best price around seems to be $45 per TB, when you break it down.

I got BestBuy to price-match a 3TB WD external from my receipt from 10/30/2011 yesterday. The WD Essentials (3 yr warranty) drive is currently $249.99, I got two for $129.99 each, plus sales tax. Puts it right around $46/TB.

I guess I can scan my receipt if anyone wants to try getting a match!?

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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #37 on: November 21, 2011, 01:51:26 PM »
The 3TB Seagates are going to be on sale for $99 on Friday at Best Buy -> good Luck

Also 2TB seem to be listed in the $70 range for Friday.

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« Reply #38 on: November 21, 2011, 03:00:40 PM »
Good luck, indeed.  The reliability of 2TB drives in 2009 and 2010 was pretty bad; I heard of many returns and complaints.  I'd like to think that they've been improved upon since then, but 2 and 3TB drives still make me nervous.  YMMV.

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« Reply #39 on: November 21, 2011, 03:40:42 PM »
At least we are not seeing prices like this: http://imgur.com/gR1Hg   1.09GB hard drive for $315
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2011, 04:41:57 PM »
Good luck, indeed.  The reliability of 2TB drives in 2009 and 2010 was pretty bad; I heard of many returns and complaints.  I'd like to think that they've been improved upon since then, but 2 and 3TB drives still make me nervous.  YMMV.

I think it's still hit or miss with certain product lines. I bought 2x2TB WD Green drives (WD20EARS) from Newegg in October for $80/each & free shipping. I had to return one of them immediately for replacement and noticed at the time the price had already jumped up to at least $100 if not a little more. Today they are listing for $210 :o
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #41 on: November 21, 2011, 06:34:07 PM »
At least we are not seeing prices like this: http://imgur.com/gR1Hg   1.09GB hard drive for $315

Just not a fair comparison.  I'm sure 1.09GB was a big, big, big HDD to have back then.   My first desktop (purchased in November 1996) had a 20GB HDD, a Pentium 133MHz CPU, 64MB of ram, 15" monitor, epson color printer...it was the tits and it only cost me $2800!   ;D

Looks like anyone that needs a new HDD better snap one (or twelve for your porn/flac collection) on black friday.
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #42 on: November 21, 2011, 07:20:41 PM »
I usually buy western digital but many of their externals are now shipping with something called smartware.  Some people describe it as a rootkit, that it is hard to remove from your computer, etc.  It sounds like BS.


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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #43 on: November 21, 2011, 07:50:25 PM »
it's easy to remove smartware.  I did it for a friend.  we formatted first and then I removed it.  I recall I had to upgrade the firmware first.  it was a little bit of a pain but once it was done it performed like a external should and no longer had the virtual cddrvie, encryption etc.
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Re: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...
« Reply #44 on: November 21, 2011, 08:43:00 PM »
IMO your better off buying OEM drives and putting them into an external enclosure. Longer warranty, easier to salvage a damaged drive, and if the electronics in the enclosure go bad, you can just get a new one (vs. sending the drive back and risk losing data).

I'll have to keep an eye peeled this weekend for Black Friday specials. It might be nice to have a couple of extra new drives in the closet in case of an emergency, especially if it's going to be a year or more before things get ironed out.

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