Looks like HDD prices are going down?

[FAUguy]

Earlier this year I purchased two of the Seagate Barracuda 3TB ST3000DM001 drives for $179 at Amazon (which was a great price) but both were dead within a couple days of use.
After that I tried the Western Digital Black 2TB and Hitachi 7K3000 2TB, both were $200. Today I noticed the Hitachi has gone down to $160, but the WD is still $200. Hopefully this isn't just a short-term sale on the Hitachi and prices for all drives start to drop back down. I'd like to add two more Hitachi 2TB drives to the two I've been using (since Jan) for RAID backup.

 

[lsv]

They may be going down, I saw a few sales.WD EARX drives have a $20 off special at some local shops I visit which is really nice. So far the news says prices won't drop til Q3 2012 but maybe we'll get some discounts?

 

[Dadofamunky]

In the bigger scheme of things, $160 for a fast 2TB isn't so bad. Not when a TB of storage occupied a small apartment 25 years ago.

 

[Blain]

2TB @ $160 is far better than 10GB @ $200

 

[Pinecone-sw]

Or for those of us who have been around a LONG time, $5000 for 5MB.

Yes, that is right, FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for 5 MEGA bytes.

But not as good as the $59.95 each for 1 TB drives I paid a couple of years ago.

 

[Elixer]

You know, the HD makers don't really have any incentives to lower the price of the HD. People are still going to buy them at the current rate, since they have no alternatives. 1TB+ storage devices cost 4-50x more than what the current HD rates are...

 

[Radagastmod]

It is really hard to spend $160 for a 3TB disk when I got one for $79 back before the flooding... They do seem to be coming down though. Lots of 3TB externals hitting $160

 

[corkyg]

I really don't see prices dropping much at all - not with everything else going up. There will always be a few good deals here and there.

 

[philipma1957]

It is really hard to spend $160 for a 3TB disk when I got one for $79 back before the flooding... They do seem to be coming down though. Lots of 3TB externals hitting $160

I got some at 93 but 79 is really nice. here is a 2tb 7200rpm seagate for 119


http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST2000...1496559&sr=8-1

I will also post in hot deals

 

[Shortass]

You know, the HD makers don't really have any incentives to lower the price of the HD. People are still going to buy them at the current rate, since they have no alternatives. 1TB+ storage devices cost 4-50x more than what the current HD rates are...

Except if one company produces excess they'll be able to undercut their competitors and outsell them 10-100x. Made up numbers of course, but you act like there aren't many HD manufacturers out there.

 

[Elixer]

Except if one company produces excess they'll be able to undercut their competitors and outsell them 10-100x. Made up numbers of course, but you act like there aren't many HD manufacturers out there.

There are two big ones, WD & Seagate. The other one is pretty much only for laptops (toshiba).

If they didn't merge, then sure, you would have 5 companies going after each other. Now, you basically only got 2.

 

[Phantomaniac]

2TB green drives seem to be hovering around $120-$130. Which is not terrible, but not great if like me you were planning on building a raid array right before the flood happened.

Also the warranties are shrinking. 2 years looks to be standard on new green drive models. :<

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I dunno. I had to buy a hd over the weekend because I forgot the the new mobo I ordered didn't have any IDE connections. I ordered a Sammy spinpoint F3 for $159 with a $20 promo code and after taxes it was still $150. I already have one of these in my server that was bought for $59.99 2 years ago lol. It seems there are alot of sales lately $20 off here and there, but not any really sweet deals. I have noticed that there are alot of recertified hdds on NEs shell shocker or daily deals though.

 

[Fallengod]

Thats pretty brutal. Those spinpoints used to be $50 shipped lol...

I am not buying any HDD's until prices come back down. I am not feeding into that bs pricing. Its not like I am in need of any anyways. Luckily I was smart and happened to buy another 1TB Black drive right before the whole flooding thing happened.

 

[Blain]

Luckily I was smart and happened to buy another 1TB Black drive right before the whole flooding thing happened.

Which gets the credit... Luck or Smartness?

 

[Fallengod]

Which gets the credit... Luck or Smartness?

Both, I am that good.

 

[hyrule4927]

Just bought a Caviar Blue 500GB for around $80, which is a lot more than I would have liked to spend, but my new build couldn't wait for a hard drive any longer. That would have been like $40 a year ago?

 

[thm1223]

Does anyone know what the 3TB Hitachi enterprise quality drives used to cost pre-flood? I only ask because I just picked up 3 @ $299 each, and I recall seeing them for ~$280 before the price hikes. This thread however, is making me secod guess my memory! :hmm:

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Both, I am that good.

LOL

 

[greenhawk]

Does anyone know what the 3TB Hitachi enterprise quality drives used to cost pre-flood?

hard to say as IIRC the 3TB drives where still new enough at the time that they had not left the "earlier adopter" price range.

closest find
http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822145472?locale=US

but then looking at newegg's site, the drives are "not in stock / not eta"

 

[alyarb]

i'm still pretty dismayed. The 2TB F4 was $75 at superbiiz and the 500GB F3 was $50, and the 1TB M8 was ~$85. I won't be happy until we get back down to that, and I definitely won't be happy until samsung releases some higher-density drives in both form factors.

Seriously buying 5 platter drives from seagate or hitachi is just begging for data loss, especially the way their reliability has plummeted over the years. I can't imagine people who really expect to keep 3 or 4 TB on a single disk without parity or backup, especially when the reviews say stuff like "I ordered 10 and 4 were DOA" or something along those lines.

It's Samsung or bust for me, and they have not released any new products in ages

 

[ElFenix]

the 2002FAEX has never been a cheap drive. before the floods it was hovering between $140 and $150.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Anyone know a good 1 platter HDD?

 

[thm1223]

i'm still pretty dismayed. The 2TB F4 was $75 at superbiiz and the 500GB F3 was $50, and the 1TB M8 was ~$85. I won't be happy until we get back down to that, and I definitely won't be happy until samsung releases some higher-density drives in both form factors.

Seriously buying 5 platter drives from seagate or hitachi is just begging for data loss, especially the way their reliability has plummeted over the years. I can't imagine people who really expect to keep 3 or 4 TB on a single disk without parity or backup, especially when the reviews say stuff like "I ordered 10 and 4 were DOA" or something along those lines.

It's Samsung or bust for me, and they have not released any new products in ages

I agree that it is silly to not take advantage of parity when you are storing that much data on a single disk. Out of curiosity though, what is the connection between DOA and poor reliability? Couldn't a DOA disk be caused by a multitude of issues? And even if it is the result of poor quality controls at the factory, is there any correlation between that and the long term reliability of disks which work upon start up?

 

[BFG10K]

Anyone know a good 1 platter HDD?

What size?