Seagate STBD2000101 Barracuda 2TB Hard Drive $105 at Newegg

down from $60 AR

hmmm according to the seagate site this has only 32mb cache

Not buying any hard drive with a one year warranty. Seriously, Seagate must be hiding something with all these 1 year warranty (think Thailand flood and how that may have affected their quality!!!). I heard from my friend who worked at a big Computer manufacturer that Seagate won't sell >1 year warranty for even enterprise level SAS/SATA drives (again think Thailand flood). I'll just going to recycle my old reliable drives and not going to buy any new drive until warranty is back to normal 3-5 years.

^ They're not hiding anything, are merely taking advantage of being best positioned to supply post-flood HDDs.

Who are you going with instead? Western Digital? Fine by me but they lowered their warranty period not so long ago too, actually they did so from 3 years to 2, before Seagate so you could say they set the trend.

At some point (both) may be found guilty of price fixing but that generally takes a few years to come to, by then you'll have to replace drives due to failures or just to reap higher capacity and performance.

Lower warranty or not, in the grand scheme of things getting 2TB of storage for $105 isn't that bad. 3 years ago this would've been a GREAT price.

To put it another way, I didn't expect 2TB to stay at $60, historically drives with that many platters stay up in the $80 to $100 range and the capacity only drops in price when platter density increases enough that only 1 to 1.5 platters (2 to 3 sides of platters) are needed.

They used to have 5years on everything just about.
It's burp down right rude to sell something like this with 1 year.
Pretty much saying "Trust this device for your important data for one year)
wtf