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March-april time before you see any difference, but I think it will be minimal, maybe a year before prices resemble anything like they did a few months ago
Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives
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New #151
I needed a new external usb 3.0 drive for the business laptop and I figured I was out of luck with these crazy prices going round. Then Seagate sent Black Friday savings link and I scored a 1 tb GoFlex with a 3.0 express card and cable for $99.99 usd which represents 47% discount. I jumped on it without a 2nd thought. Check out the excellent current price.
Hard Drive Deals
If you shop very hard and get to know the spec's and pricing you can still find deals but they are getting tougher to find and I'm just happy this landed in my lap !
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New #153
One of my Seagate drives is at 1/2 heath according to the SMART status, so let's hope it keeps until they can get more drives in. I got it back in 2008, so it should last until this is resolved if it's lasted this long. It was the only drive not affected by the bricking Seagate had a few years back. All my other drives have been replaced with WDC drives.
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New #154
The price of hdd's have risen in the Netherlands as well. I am fortunate because I have enough space on both my internal and external hdd's. If worse comes to worse I can make use of two 500GB IDE hdd's that are in one of my backup pc's.
I have read of the reasons for the price increases and maybe some or all of it is true. My thinking is that a lot of people are using whatever excuses available to increase prices and make greater profits.
My strategy is to not buy anything that isn't necessary until this global economic greed ebbs a bit.
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New #155
As you can see by my specs now I just finished my new build I got a 128 gig ssd that came with batman arkham city for 100 dollars.
They wanted 89 for a slow spinning 250gig mechanical in the same store.
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New #156
I saw that sale today. that's what I want for Christmas. (hint, hint)
Nope, it was this I saw, $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147137
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New #157
exact same drive actually
it's a beast too
boot time is basically the amount of time it takes the stupid windows logo animation to run.
It's nice the second you see desktop everything is loaded and ready to go.
and I didn't tweak or mess with anything really yet wanted to enjoy some gaming on it before I got back to 'finishing' the settings and all that.
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New #158
I turned off the windows logo animation because it wasn't even finishing before the system was booted.
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