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Amazon has the Seagate ST2000DM001 Barracuda 2TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $120 with free shipping. Features a 64MB cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s SATA interface, and AcuTrac servo technology.
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Ooooh Barracuda. $120 no thanks. Call me at $60.
Good Day Sir.
This is a 7200 rpm drive, so $80 would be about right. $60 would be a deal and at $120 they can keep them.
Same price on Newegg today only (w/coupon code):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834
lowest priced 2TB/7200RPM 'egg sells
I would be afraid of all spinning disk drives for the next year or so. I have heard that the manufacturers are reducing all of their warranties on the latest batch of drives.
I do suggest Seagate rethink their marketing strategy. As SSD drive coming up in size and dropping in price. The market % for traditional HDD is shrinking. Thailand flood is a good excuse to keep HDD price high- but risk is : low sales volume. How long as Seagate/WD hold on if sales volume are keeping low ? They still have to pay all expense every month no matter how low the sale is right ? Don't wait for SSD drive starring to take over the market, then start to react. Then they should get themselves ready for chapter 11.
I agree with most of the people here- and I won't get them until they drop to $60 - $80 Range. Luckily, I spare quiet a few when they are around $60-$69 range.
This drive also has the new 1 year warranty. What happened to the 3 year warranty and before that the 5 year warranty on all hard drives? A 1 year warranty is what the no-name generic factory second hard drives came with. That by itself would make this a $50 to $60 drive.
Of coarse these manufactures are kind of melting together so you really are coming down to two manufactures in the end. When you look at the swapping of information and the deals the manufactures are doing with each other, there has been a weeding out of the manufactures and what each has to offer. That will keep profits high and prices high for these companies, while the consumer looses.
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>The market % for traditional HDD is shrinking.
It's shrinking in the segment of PC OS drives, but is expanding rather quickly in the area of media storage servers/home servers. I would say that in total the demand grows much stronger for large (2+ TB) drives, and with good perspective, too.