Newegg has the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS721010CLA332 (0F10383) 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $65 - $15 off with coupon code EMCZNZV27 [Exp 12/19] = $50 with free shipping.
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Deathstar comments, anyone?
Will 1TB disk ever get down to $30? Or will $50 be it and they'll just go away?
There's still plenty of customers out there that are happy to pay $35 for sub-terabyte drives, so, no, I don't think 1 TB drives will get to that price point unless the market for sub-terabyte drives dries up.
I actually expected 1TB@$35 drives to be the norm over BF/CM weekend, but they never materialized AFAIK.
#3 That is why Retailers will have the worst Christmas Season Yet!!! They are too greedy!!
1TB of data to loose. Does this drive have a sticker on it that says all of your data will be lost?
The sticker says "All of your datas are belong to us!"
#4, retailers would not have the worse Christmas Season only because they are too greedy. It is also in part because the customers are too greedy.
#5, if you're worried about data being lost then look into a RAID 5 or RAID 6. Every drive has some risk of dying.
Typical price point for a current generation single platter HDDs with two read/write heads is $40... maybe less with a rebate or super sale.
Typical price for 2 platter drive w/4 read/write heads is $50 to $60. Since current gen platters are about 500GB each (little higher for 4K sectored drives), that translates into 1TB HDD being that price range today.
When platter density rises to say 750GB/platter, you will find 1.5TB HDD at a typical $50 to $60 price, but you won't find any current generation two platter drive dipping much below $50, except w/rebate or unusually good sale prices.
I hope this answers the question, it will be the same answer except for capacity per platter until the basic design of HDDs change a lot, if they ever do before flash prices drop enough that almost all HDD are then SSDs instead.
These are far superior to the .B series (three platter) drives.