Ends today. Newegg has the Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $110 - $30 off with coupon code USPY56S614 [Exp 6/15] = $80 with free shipping. Features a one-year limited warranty.
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$80 for 1TB? lol...keep milking the flood cow.....
The "new" Samsung drives with Seagate on the label are just as bad as regular Seagate drives. I have stopped buying them.
Samsung bought the IBM drive plant...those were the Death Stars.
Hitachi bought the IBM plants years ago. Hitachi and Western Digital have partnered together this past year, before the so called flood, which is why the new Hitachi drives are labeled "HGST a Western Digital Company" along with the news on HGST web site that "WD Completes Acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies". This is the "Deskstar" series. IBM made one bad model hard drive and it got the nickname "Deathstar" as it was around the same time Starwars was big. How long ago was that? I had good luck with the IBM drives I had and I still have one around here as a storage drive.
Samsung has partnered with Seagate in this same time period as the Hitachi / WD deal. What basically leaves two companies making hard drives. Less competition means higher prices for the buyer. What does the flood in Thailand have to do with the price of these drives that are made in China? Most all these consumer grade hard drives are made in China; no flooding there. In the end the mergers of these companies have more to do with the prices than the flood.
#4, I believe all the disk head plants were in Thailand. Can't make drives without heads...
#4 - Is right! Less players... less competition means they better monopoly on price.
But quality must be there to get these prices and warranties underwrite that belief. A 1Tb F3 Spinpoint use to have a 3-Year, now a 1-Y! That's my problem to ask more and not have the same confidence to offer at least the same warranty speak volumes over just the increasing price. Of all the parts in a computer a mechanical drive is the most susceptible to screwing up, and taking the data with it or at least cause the work, cost and grief to get stuff off it, and exactly why SSD could/will trump mechanicals down the road.
SSD just can't compete on price for mass storage. They may work in tablets and for your OS or as part of a hybrid drive, but for the terrabytes of content people are producing, SSD isn't the answer.
Wow, just found this guy ospinion article today.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/2184604/seagate-western-digital-wait-click-death