Planning to buy a hard drive now? Better wait...

[StevenD]

I'll look into it. Need SATA III though. Plus Trim compliant as this will be for a system drive in windows 7. I understand that without Trim the drive will degrade over time as it approaches the write limitations.

Ah! sold out. I'll keep looking.

That drive supports TRIM and its sata III.



buy.com had it for $199 yesterday.


they are probably coming out with a new model soon, hence the price reduction. but still an excellent drive.

 

[dfergie]

Wal Mart has the 3 gig WD My Book Essentials for $135 (EHDD) I almost got one but they aren't compatible with Dish or my Popcorn hour, I pulled the one I got a few months ago out of it's case and put in my pc as an extra drive...

 

[TheForce]

After much reading, I went with an OCZ Vertex 4 256Gb drive as it seemed to have the fastest I/O latency right now. A bit more money but I need performance in my application.

 

[riffjim4069]

I still can't find a 1TB My Book AV DVR Expander for my Tivo Premiere in stock at the usual places (Newegg, TigerDirect, etc.) or for less than $319.68 at Amazon.

 

[Ramy]

I bought a WD 3TB external drive about 6 months ago for $99 so I am not buying any til they get back down to that price.

 

[Voyager6]

You gots to let us know about those crazy deals!!! : So we can all do it!!:

Here is where you find these deals. Slickdeals: The Best Deals, Coupons & Discounts on Laptops, Computers, LCDs, TVs, Dell, HP, Apple, Amazon

 

[John Kotches]

Does anyone recall the pre-flood pricing on 4TB drives? I'm trying to determine how much more room they have to come down in price.

 

[navychop]

Did they HAVE 4GB back then?

 

[StevenD]

Does anyone recall the pre-flood pricing on 4TB drives? I'm trying to determine how much more room they have to come down in price.

If I remember correctly, the cheapest I saw it was $259. Price/GB sucked.

 

[John Kotches]

If I remember correctly, the cheapest I saw it was $259. Price/GB sucked.

They are the highest density and therefore the cost / GB will not be the best. That's a toss up between 2 and 3 TB at the moment.


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[TheForce]

Cheap 2 Tb drives are not the whole story. Many of these really cheap drives are poor speed performers so be careful. If you need simple data storage they work fine but if you require HD video serving they will perform poorly. The 7200 RPM and a decent buffer will cost a bit more but everything is down in price now and SSD's are dropping fast too. Most SSD's I price now are nearly half what they sold for 6 months ago. Glad I waited!

 

[yaz96]

Wal Mart has the 3 gig WD My Book Essentials for $135 (EHDD) I almost got one but they aren't compatible with Dish or my Popcorn hour, I pulled the one I got a few months ago out of it's case and put in my pc as an extra drive...

Is this in store? cuz online they are $159.

 

[riffjim4069]

Here is where you find these deals. Slickdeals: The Best Deals, Coupons & Discounts on Laptops, Computers, LCDs, TVs, Dell, HP, Apple, Amazon

I use Slickdeals.net and Hotdealsclub.com

 

[meStevo]

SD has a 2TB drive for $99.

2TB Samsung Ecogreen F4 3.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive (HD204UI) $100 + Free Shipping - Newegg Deals, Coupons and Promos

Newegg link: Newegg.com - SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

A lot of talk in the thread about QA being awful since the floods though.

Personally holding out on SSDs until my next upgrade, so whenever Windows 8 hits.

 

[dfergie]

Is this in store? cuz online they are $159.

Yeah red tag specials...

 

[yaz96]

Anyone know if you take WD EHD drives out of enclosures to use in NAS, are they still covered unfer warranty?