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Amazon has the Seagate ST2000DL003 Barracuda Green 2TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $100 with free shipping. Features a 64MB cache, 5900RPM, 6.0Gb/s SATA interface, and a 4.16ms average latency. Maximum PC story about the hard drive shortage.
$100
5900RPM... no thanks
Finally we have some HDD deals... even the price sucks.
$100.00.no thanks
i will take one considering current pricing.
if it's 7200rpm, i will jump in for one
i was too late. price jumped back up and only 1 left.
Price History link says it all really.
Consider newegg has them for $200, $100 is pretty decent pricing these days.
I heard something about flooding in the far east is what has effectived the latest price spike on hard drives. I got a nice 90G ssd for $100 but the cheapest price by far for a caviar black 6g I found was $85 for a 500 gig. The egg has 1tb caviar black 6g for $249 and even though that's an insane price, it falls inline with the market trend being the going price.
Just google "Thailand flood 2011" and you'll see why this is a deal.
Face it, these drives today are only used for storage, ususally backups, so who cares it's not 7200?
If you aren't running an SSD as your main operating drive, you have no business dissing this for 100 bucks.
Thanks Ben/NewEgg.
Stupid Newbz.
Yes the Thailand flooding has put a huge dent into all hard drives. The prices are through the roof. The sata 6 and 7200 drives are specially affected.
This is progress. Looks like prices are already starting to drop back down a bit. I honestly thought we would see $150-$200/GB well into next year.
Considering that SSD's didn't raise in price when HD's were scarce I think we may even see an SSD price drop as HD's become more plentiful.
Here's hopin'
SSD pricing will continue to depend on flash chip density increases and competition from mobile devices using the majority of flash chips produced.
Good sign, prices moving... or at least show sign of movement back down. I use up approximately two 2TB drives per month and I have only 4 left from my previous stocking up... I hope in 2 month they will return to the pre-flood level completely.
^ I doubt they'll return to prior levels that fast. Once prices drop a little more then people who've been holding out will start buying again, creating higher demand.