Price trends on External HDDs?

[ArenaNinja]

I bought a 250gb external drive approximately 2 years ago for 109.99+tax. Back then it was a great deal.

Right now you can buy a 500gb external drive for 119.99 (with some shopping around). Right now it's a great deal.

So I'm split whether I should buy the 500gb drive or wait for a 1tb to come out. I plan to do massive photoshopping and I plan to go into amateur photography/photo & video editing so I need a LOT of storage.

So, does anyone know of any site where I can see the trends on prices for external drives? Also, I just bought my XPS 420 (runs great) so I'm looking at possibly buying an eSata drive, and possibly a USB2.0 for backup purposes.

Any indications are welcome.

 

[sutahz]

Its a start..
http://www.nextag.com/Western-...-564404677/prices-html
There isnt much history for that drives prices because its only been out a short time. You can use that site to check out price trends of other products as well though.

 

[0roo0roo]

1tb is out though?
i'd suggest 2 500gb for redundancy

 

[ArenaNinja]

@sutahz: great. This is exactly what I'm looking for! I wish you could see a bit longer history though.

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
1tb is out though?
i'd suggest 2 500gb for redundancy

Yup, there's a fair share of 1tb external drives out there, I believe most (that I've seen) are from WD at this time. 2 500gb for redundancy does sound like a good idea, but I have a limited budget so I need to look into squeezing every GB per dollar that I can.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: ArenaNinja
So, does anyone know of any site where I can see the trends on prices for external drives?

You won't see trends for all externals, but you can view price trends for individual external drives at PriceSCAN.

 

[JackMDS]

Let see, you buy a 500GB Now and you pay about $100.

You buy a !TB in two years, and it probably would be $100

So all together you spend $200 (in a span of a year or two) and you have a 1.5TB

You buy a 1TB now you spend $250. Dah!