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

[TheForce]

Needed another 2Tb drive so I went out expecting to pay over $200 and to my surprise the register rang up $129. Asked the salesman how the price came down from $220 to $129 on the walk from the shelf to the register. He said those were last weeks prices but there was a big drop yesterday. I asked for how long? He said rumor is it won't last because they are still slow on production. This weeks pricing is cause they dumped a bunch of inventory. Said when this runs out the prices over $200 will return. What luck I had today!

 

[osu1991]

I was looking this weekend and noticed prices were down. I will probably be ordering one or two tonight. I can't put it off much longer.

 

[yaz96]

Needed another 2Tb drive so I went out expecting to pay over $200 and to my surprise the register rang up $129. Asked the salesman how the price came down from $220 to $129 on the walk from the shelf to the register. He said those were last weeks prices but there was a big drop yesterday. I asked for how long? He said rumor is it won't last because they are still slow on production. This weeks pricing is cause they dumped a bunch of inventory. Said when this runs out the prices over $200 will return. What luck I had today!

Where was it?

Bare drives or EHD's?

 

[mdonnelly]

Where was it?

Bare drives or EHD's?

Seagate 2TB drive for $109 after coupon at Tiger Direct today only.

TigerDirect.com | WEM3006 | 24 Hour Valentine’s Day Special!

 

[TheForce]

Yep! That's the one. I see Tiger has a $20 coupon off too. I would rather have the 7200 RPM as I need it for video serving but testing now and it seems to do fine. Bought mine at Comp USA store, not on line. They had one more in stock.

 

[yaz96]

Hmm, this drive was about $79 a few months ago. Question is...when will it get there again.


THanks for the info.

 

[TheForce]

yaz- that was before the floods. It may be awhile before supply exceeds demand like back then. WD is still not up to prior capacity and this year we expect to see some big enterprise investment in corporate upgrades due to anticipated huge tax increases for doing the same in 2013. The demand will remain high until the election, after which it will fall off and prices will drop. Can you wait until December for those prices to return? The logic in this has little to do with who gets elected but rather the certainty of known tax policy before the election and unlikely these corporate tax rates will fall in 2013. Dell is now reporting huge business growth in corporate purchasing of upgrades. I'm afraid, 2012 will be a year of higher prices in technology due to increased demand. Best wait until 2013 when we will likely experience a recession in capital investment which will cause prices to roll back again. If you didn't upgrade before Oct 2011, best to wait until 2013, if you can if price is most important.

 

[TheForce]

Today- Western Digital inked a deal with Toshiba to acquire Toshiba's hard drive Thailand manufacturing facility.

 

[yaz96]

2TB HARD DRIVE PRICE DROP



Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item#: N82E16822148681

$109.99 with promo code EMCNENF23 FREE SHIPPING!

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/May-0-2012/componentsale04/img/LB_05.jpg

I'm picking up 2

 

[John Kotches]

the pricing for hard drive is getting a lot closer to their pre flood levels. last year about this time, I picked up my 2 terabyte drives for around 85 bucks each.

I'm hoping the 4 terabyte ones get down around 250, as I'd rather double the size of my raid array an increase it by 50 percent.

regardless, big improvement in price!

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[pro96]

the pricing for hard drive is getting a lot closer to their pre flood levels. last year about this time, I picked up my 2 terabyte drives for around 85 bucks each.

I'm hoping the 4 terabyte ones get down around 250, as I'd rather double the size of my raid array an increase it by 50 percent.

regardless, big improvement in price!

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Yupp.. Last month I got me a 3TB external from Staples for $85 AC/PM.. not too shabby

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[TheForce]

I saw that deep discounted price too. Unfortunately, I'm in the market now for SSD, SATAIII And these are still very high.

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[StevenD]

I saw that deep discounted price too. Unfortunately, I'm in the market now for SSD, SATAIII And these are still very high.

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Newegg had the Crucial M4 256GB drives for $199 yesterday. I bought two more. I have owned two for more than avyear and they have been flaw free.

 

[yaz96]

Yupp.. Last month I got me a 3TB external from Staples for $85 AC/PM.. not too shabby

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Holy cow! That's a killer deal! I could just pull the drives out and use those in a NAS.

What kind are they? And what is AC/PM?

 

[pro96]

Holy cow! That's a killer deal! I could just pull the drives out and use those in a NAS.

What kind are they? And what is AC/PM?

Barracuda 3TB ...hehe I did remove from crappy OEM case.

AC - After coupon
PM - Price match

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[StevenD]

Barracuda 3TB ...hehe I did remove from crappy OEM case.

AC - After coupon
PM - Price match

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I hope you don't have any issues. Seagate tends to invalidate warranties of their drives sold in enclosures. They warrant the entire enclosure, not the drive it contains. You can run it through their online warranty checker though to see what they day.

Western Digital doesn't seem to care. They tend to warrant the drives separately.

 

[pro96]

I hope you don't have any issues. Seagate tends to invalidate warranties of their drives sold in enclosures. They warrant the entire enclosure, not the drive it contains. You can run it through their online warranty checker though to see what they day.

Western Digital doesn't seem to care. They tend to warrant the drives separately.

3yr warranty .. Checked when i removed the drive last month

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[yaz96]

Barracuda 3TB ...hehe I did remove from crappy OEM case.

AC - After coupon
PM - Price match

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

 

[pro96]

I could but sometimes them deals happen soo fast that me posting it can actually make me miss out on it to the point where the site gets slammed and or sell out.

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[TheForce]

Newegg had the Crucial M4 256GB drives for $199 yesterday. I bought two more. I have owned two for more than avyear and they have been flaw free.

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.