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Harddrive prices....Will they be going down any time soon?

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NotoriousJTC

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I'm thinking about adding a huge HD to my system soon, and of course, huge HD's cost a hefty amount of bling bling. My question: if there any point waiting for a bit to see if IDE HD prices go down? Or do they usually stay the same year round?

I'm looking at either Maxtor or IBM.
 
bump for this, i'm waiting for the maxtor 40 gig 7200 RPM drive to drop to like $80

any chance of this happening in the next few months?
 
Serious, nobody really keeps track of hard drive prices, because areal density increases, capacity increases, technology improves, it's not exactly like CPU or RAM. Say for example, the Maxtor 7200rpm 60GB, a few months ago was $220, now it's $170, it does show a trend when capacity increases, price tend to drop over time, because bigger capacities are coming out, we'll see 100GB hard drives before you know it.
 
As LXi essentially stated, HD prices themselves don't change. The capacity you get for that price is what tends to change.

Granted, a few mispricings, an online coupon, and a mail-in rebate never hurt anybody. 😛

-SUO, owns CompUSA WD45GB for $45 (all rebates received)
 
I typically buy capacities that give me the most megs per dollar. Usually spend $150-$200 per drive. I'm more concerned about the hd lagging behind the rest of the system performance wise...prices have been steady for a long, long time at least with IDE units.
 


<< Harddrive prices....Will they be going down any time soon? >>



The way I see it, the prices on HD drop every few weeks. You can practically get a 40g Maxtor for around $110 +tax I believe if you use a discount coupon and read the thread in the hot deals forum. You can't beat that price on a 7200rpm drive.
 
When are the 100giggers supposed to be out? That's what I'm waiting for.

Usually I'll upgrade when I find a good deal - managed to pick up my 20GB and 40GB for $100-$120 when the going rate at the time was closer to $200.

The 80GB drives seem to be hovering around the $200 mark still, if not more.

I already use my hard drive as my jukebox, I'm waiting so I can throw my vcr away too 😉
 
I thought that 180GB drives were already out. I have always used WD exclusively, they are quiet, cool, and in my experience never die. 40GB 7200 WD about 120
 
The 180 you're talking about is the new 7200 SCSI Seagate Barracuda...as far as IDE goes though, 80's the max for now. WD will come out with the WD800BB sometime (80 gig 7200) and hopefully the 100+ gig IDE border will be passed soon...don't really now how soon though.

nsx
 
The price of a particular hard drive will generally drop slowly over time, but their price is not as volatile as some other components like ram.
 
Alright time to reminisce... I remember the good ol days when my friend and I each bought a 500 mb hard drive for one dollar per meg, we felt like pretty cool guys back then... hehe... yes that was 500 dollars for a lousy 500 mb hard drive
 
The prices of hardrives have changed dramtically over the years. You can pick up drives for under $50 now. 15 years ago factoring in inflation that would have been perhaps $30, where the cheapest drive would have cost closer to $600. That is a 2000% price change ignoring the fact that capacaties of 15 years have improved by almost a factor of 3 or more.

As mentioned above, HD prices are not volatile like RAM prices. Also unlike CPUs, improvemnt of current technology is much slower, while that is offset by more frequent technology changes such as the above mentioned pixie dust. My last drive was a 9.1G 7200 SCSI which I got for under $100 including shipping. A few years ago that was a $1000 drive.
 
why spend top dollar on a biggie when you could get 2 'price mature' units and RAID stripe them? Thats what im planning on, got my first GXP, now looking for my mobo (possibly with raid, if no, a fasttrack add on) and after the CPU, its another 30gig GXP.

Still 60Gb that I could have bought in one drive, a bit more cost overall, but up to double the HD-mem file transfers on my 500mb wavs or 200mb scans (and manipulations of same in various software packages). And where theres no gain to be had with raid, itll still perform like one GXP, wether its a 30 or 60 model, so apart from a little CPU overhead im not loosing anything. (and abut a Ghz should cope with any extra cpu - i only max cycles in games, times that the HD is inactive)
 
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