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Up until now stocking up would have been crazy as prices were plummeting like a rock. I bought a 2 gig drive for $130 not long ago and by the time I acutally used it I could have bought it for $80! :)
Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives
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New #71
I wouldn't fret, for some reason the price of external hdds haven't jumped as crazily as internal hdds.
2TB Hitachi external can be had for $119.99 on Newegg.
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New #72
Can't really compare a external drive with a usb 2.0/3.0, 5400 rpm, 8gb cache with a proper sata II/III 7200 rpm / 64gb cache drive.
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New #73
^ Yes, indeed. Access time are much lower that way.
Also, this tragedy is really unfortunate. However, I see a chance for the SSD to shine or at least have more spotlight. We might see a huge price drop for those in the near future.
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New #74
Why would they drop the price of SSDs?
They can hold the price and look more competitive.
I agree that dropping the price now, would be better from the long-term perspective (use this opportunity to get more people hooked).
These days short-term profit, trumps long-term returns.
IMO, the price of SSDs won't drop (for many years) they'll just slowly increase the capacity.
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New #75
That statement may go down in history, like:
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
— Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment, in 1977.
In 1975 a TV repairman said he thought the price of VCRs (remember them?) was as low as possible due to the high tech involved and preciseness of manufacturing, etc, etc. They were (on sale) around $1500 at the time.
I had to replace a HDD, 80GB,5400 RPM, at a cost of $189.
Not putting you down at all here, but I see the SSD price per gigabyte falling a lot in the next two years. OEMs will soon be including them as a standard drive, in laptops first then more in desktops, driving demand, supply and tech to make them better and faster.
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New #77
Actually the Hitachis I linked (Touro Desk series) are their newest models (5K3000) sporting 5940rpm with 32MB cache.
If you want the 7200rpm versions (7K3000) they are called the Touro Desk Pro series and cost $10 more respectively.
I would buy their external just to use it as internal. At the current prices now it's a steal.
hitachi global storage technologies
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New #78
Ohh...this is painful. A three terabyte hard drive cost 160 dollars in August. It's now almost 300! I think the French say, "Mon dieu!"
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New #79
It's not so bad. I saw a drive 30 years ago ... 5 MB for $5000. Just the raw drive. So that's $1000 per MB. (And that was with NO controller and NO host adapter.)
Today's 2 TB drive for $300 ... is just $0.0015 per MB. CHEAP!!!!
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