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Amazon has the Seagate ST2000DL003 Barracuda Green 2TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $110 with free shipping. Features a 64MB cache, 5900RPM, 6.0Gb/s SATA interface, and a 4.16ms average latency. Newegg has it for the same price w/ code EMCNHNC42 [Exp 2/13].
$110
Not a bad deal, though if I'm not mistaken the same drive was about $100 last week. The question is when will the 7200 rpm drives come out with lower prices after the flood.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25917-aftermath-of-thai-floods-still-effecting-hdd-shipments
Whoa, casecutter, post #5000, way to go!
Anybody with 5000 posts needs to get a life!
Honestly didn't even realize, I hadn't been checking that.
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"IHS estimates that hard drive prices will remain inflated throughout 2012, although they are projected to decline by 3 percent and 9 percent in Q1 and Q2 respectively."
Yeah um call me when this drive is $50 which is what it is supposed to be. Flood is BS excuse. FoxConn can ramp up a 100,000 workers in with supervisors in ONE DAY. China is pumping out plenty of Hard Drives.
First, those who voted thumbs down to 'techsupport' didn't get the joke
Second, anyone worth of a B- in Econ 101 can see how wrong "pukey"'s comment is. For production, you need both labor and capital (plant and equipment). FoxConn can send a billion workers if you want; with no capital you produce nothing.
I don't want HDD made in China in a hurry, and even if they were good, where a drive is made isn't necessarily where some subcomponents are made.
Third, I'm not comfortable shifting more and more of the world's manufacturing to China. We want a communist country to prosper at the expense of everyone else by exploiting employees and gaming the system even to the point of government sponsored near-free postal rates?
It's now at the point where I can buy a USB card reader from China and have it delivered on the other side of the world cheaper than I can even mail the empty envelope it came in to my next door neighbor. Something is very wrong with that.
^ Amen... Heck China is working to obsolete the Amazons and other E-Tailers with likes of alibaba.com. There's work afoot in the country federal/state legistrative branches to provide a "larger direct port express release" and what are termed "fast ships catamarans" to bring goods we buy direct from China cheap fast over water killing the DHL/UPS/FedEx (3-5 days) ran by China to completely take all the profit centers for themselves and do it without have to pay our goverment taxes.