HDD Price Dropping?

[Wasabisam]

Hey guys,

Well i got a question? Why have i seen harddrives drop down in price in the last month or two. A 320gb harddrive was like $130 AUD or somthing a month ago and it went on special for $117 AUD and then went off special and went to $110 AUD and now its only $99 AUD for a 320gb Sata2 heres a link
http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=107_22&products_id=18224&ccsid=348d86d6fbcfd4a5c3538f39a546b02a

So anybody know why its dropped so much? Is there a new drive out or somthing because in the last 2 weeks this drive has dropped about $10 AUD not much ey but i believe it may drop ever more. If it gets under $80 i may Have a motive to go into town lol
Thanks for you help.

Sam

[Bucko]

Funny I was just saying elsewhere I bought a 500Gb Samsung drive from a local store for AU$185. Damn cheap!

[simon275]

Yeah I noticed that those 320gb drives are pretty cheap now.

It could just be a supply thing or maybe the costs of production have gone down. Or even something is just around the corner. Maybe those drives that have like 4gb flash caches for most used files.

[Eclecticos]

Here is a 320Gb Sata 3.0Gb/s Maxtor DiamondMax (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144188)

$69.99 Free Shipping

[Outlaw]

Maybe because they released the 1TB drives now, the smaller stuff has come down.

[nil8]

The stuff is coming down so manufacturers can push their bigger items. Companies are trying to liquidate their stock to make room for bigger, better and more expensive. 250-320 gb drives are now old hat and extremely cheap.

That and the price of manufacturing has become much less with less platters to deal with.

Soon we will have single platter 500gb drives that will probably cost around 80 dollars, but that will only be once tb drives really make a splash in consumer markets. Give it a year or so.

Good days for hard drives ahead, enjoy them. It's not always so much space is so cheap.

[Wasabisam]

Yeh Bucko http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=107_22&products_id=18226&ccsid=eb62640ed26ef13e6e5f9ff81f5dda48
$184 for a 500gb SATA2 harddrive damn thats cheap. Since when did they release 1TB drives? lol i havn't seen them. Linky linky :twisted:

[nil8]

Stop drooling. Here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/15/the_spring_hard_drive_guide/
Inside this guide there is a link to their long review of the tb drives on the market.

[Wasabisam]

awesome i shall read it when it loads, Stupid internet limit blown again so down to dial-up speed until the 1st ( 40gb a month Download limit and my brother manages to blow it every month like 5 days before the end. )

[Outlaw]

Here (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/112147/hitachi-ships-1tb-internal-hard-drive.html) is another link to the 1TB hard drive. I also saw one on Newegg last week but don't know where it went. I know I am not crazy either because the guy I work with saw it too.

[nil8]

Oh yea, they exist. They will cost you more than some computers, but they exist.

[Outlaw]

When I breifly saw it on Newegg, it wasn't as much as you might think. If I remember correctly it was about 300-400

[stewart123]

I just received an e-mail from newegg that advertised samsung 500gb for 109$ w/free shipping.

[Outlaw]

HAHA, Im not crazy. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145141) Here it is if you haven't seen it yet. On newegg for $400.

[Wasabisam]

HAHA, Im not crazy. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145141) Here it is if you haven't seen it yet. On newegg for $400.


samsung 500gb for 109$ w/free shipping

Isnt it cheaper to buy a few 500gb HDD and then RAIDing them? although $109 for a 500gb sounds too cheap even if it is american. You can have 2 TB for about the same as a 1 TB Drive? unless im reading this totally wrong lol

[nil8]

You're exactly correct. 500 gb to 320 is much more cost effective atm then the 1tb drives. If you have the space for it and can deal with it, go for 320 to 500.

[Greco101]

15000rpm drives are popping up on newegg. maybe that's going to be the new thing? I noticed DDR3 as well