Today I weep at hard drive prices again.

[blackened23]

Back in September of last year the 2tb caviar black was on sale at newegg for 99 bucks. I thought to myself, I don't NEED it right now, i'll just buy it in a few months.

ATF, today I weep because i'm about to buy the same drive for around 220$. Hold me. :|

 

[corkyg]

If you still don't need it, why buy it?

 

[blackened23]

I didn't need it then, I need it now.

 

[Elixer]

Hmm, I think you meant the "green" drive was $99, AFAIK, the black edition was never that low.

http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822136792
Lowest was $130...

 

[greenhawk]

lucky you did not need it in december, it was higher again then IIRC.

 

[Engineer]

Hmm, I think you meant the "green" drive was $99, AFAIK, the black edition was never that low.

http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822136792
Lowest was $130...

Green drive at that size was sub $70 if not lower. If you were willing to open an external WD drive up and use the drive inside, you could have gotten a black 2TB for around $64.99 + tax (most likely involved a coupon).

As for the Black drive, you are right in that I can't see a standalone drive on any deal site lower than $126.xx.

 

[Zap]

Hold me. :|

"There, there." [awkwardly pats blackened23 on back while avoiding more physical contact, like Sheldon in Big Bang Theory]

 

[BFG10K]

Prices are definitely easing, especially on WD's models. There have been at least two major price drops since the flood.

Also WD says output won't be fully restored until September: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storag...l_Expects_to_Restore_Output_by_September.html

 

[greenhawk]

Also WD says output won't be fully restored until September:

so from 3-6 months it is now out to basically a year.

I do not think I can wait that long to upgrade my storage system :/

o well, time for some heavy trimming. Must be something I do not really want to keep.

 

[groberts101]

o well, time for some heavy trimming. Must be something I do not really want to keep.

It helps a lot if you put all your porn on blu-ray.

 

[billyb0b]

It helps a lot if you put all your porn on blu-ray.

i concur