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Tiger Direct has the Seagate Barracuda Green ST1000DL002 1TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $60 + $4 shipping (EconoShip) = $64 shipped. Features Advanced Format 4K sector standard, Seagate SmartAlign technology, low power consumption, and 12ms average seek time. Maximum PC story about the hard drive shortage.
$64
Would be an ok deal if it was BOGO
Has there ever been a BOGO on hard drives? This is still a decent deal given the shortage.
Finally HDD price get closer to normal price range- But the price should still have room to drop if you have patient.
I guess the flood is not going to be as big of problem getting ramped back up as first considered. I mean this isn't great but it beats >$125 for a drive like this.
this isn't payless, #1.
These should be like $40
yea
These should be whatever will sell them. If you need one, good price. In not, wait it out...
You can wait out anything, but your LIFE!!!
Follow-update to the linked MaxPC HD shortage story at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/hard_drive_market_see_significant_relief_q1_2012
All these drives need a spin cycle in the dryer.
That's essentially what WD is doing to their equipment in Thailand.
I wish this wasn't considered a good deal.
I'm just gonna wait as long as I can to replace my 3x 750GB drives with 2TB's. I don't really NEED a lot of the stuff on there (I could re-rip the DVD's again if I really needed to) to justify spending more than, say, $80/drive. If prices aren't better in, say, May, then I'll just bite the bullet. Otherwise, I would have been buying in January (or sooner if the right deal popped up.)
I haven't heard anyone that thinks that this HDD price/supply crisis is permanent - even if another major natural disaster hits Asia, manufacturers will figure out a way to continue increasing their volume.
all of you cheapsakes are going to grow old and grumpy if you keep waiting for X item to drop to X price. just buy it jews.
I wouldn't use this as your primary boot partition as it's only 5900 RPM, but it would be good as a secondary slave/storage device.
I was able to get a deal on the 2TB Baracuda XT drive earlier in the year which is 7900 RPM for $110. Hopefully the prices will return to that point as that drive is over $200.00 now
I need another HDD so bad but the prices are outrageous! This is a good deal as far as prices go I suppose even though I bought a 2TB drive for maybe 20 dollars more in the summer. Oh how I hope the prices drop again.
For last three months, supberbiiz offered 2TB 5900RPM Seagate for $75. Don't know why this deal is hot now...
^ because some people need a drive n-o-w