uh-oh, the percs wore off.... Johhny's mad!

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But yes, I agree, prices have been stuck for at least 2 yrs. I used to be able to double my capacity for less money every year.

I just picked up a couple of 3TB Externals for $139 each....

Yeah, 2tb´s are getting old, get a 3tb johnny...

SSD prices need to go down... way down.

They already did. SSDs are insanely cheap, even compared to 6 months ago.

Spinning drives are still expensive because the two main players realised that after the Taiwan floods, people were still buying drives at double the price, so even though supplies are back to normal, they're still charging over the odds... Simply because they can.

Yep. SSD's have dropped dramatically. I used to be $2 per GB now it's less than a buck per GB

Larger sized ones are still quite expensive though.

Man, I came off them meds 2 days ago.

I'm back.......

INTERNAL 2.5" laptop jawns man...@ 7200 RPM's...

Cat's don't be payin' attention....

So they're all cleaned up after the floods and are STILL bein' greedy?

See....

Right.

i been happy for the last 2 years with a 120 SSD internal for apps and OS. Run my music off externals!!!! could not be happier.

No mention of 2,5" in this thread since you just brought it up, Im paying attention, but I'm no mind reader ;-) Wasn't aware there was 2tb 2,5" 7200 rpm drives out yet. Would be nice to pop one into the mbp optibay.

I have seen the WD passport 2tb, its 5400rpm,
and Im not sure opening the case to install it in a laptop is the best idea...

some of those drives dont have a sata interface!

Yeah, I don't recognize this connection... > hexus.net

Dag, some of those meds must still be messin' with me...

I meant INTERNAL 3.5 DESKTOP drives not being 2 TB @ 7200 RPM at 100 bucks...

Then somewhere I started looking for 1 TB 7200 2.5 Laptop drives....for the same price...

Don't do drugs.

I'd need it to be 7200 RPM...

***Blank Stare at 120 GB****

My watch has more memory...

lol

Yeah, thats why I said: I just bought 5 of those 3tb 7200 rpm's for my Drobo S enclosure...
Yeah, they cost more, its a bitch, but i need the space.

I don't get why people buy those small SSDs. Either get a usable size, or stay with a conventional HD or even the hybrid drives IMO.

But I still only want to spend 100 bucks....

I'm still hurting from the time I spent 400 bucks on a 400 MB DRIVE....

Slow healer huh?

x2

Starting at $117 www.bhphotovideo.com (I have NO affiliation to BH)

From $1.00 a MEG to $1.00 a GB?

Yes, I'm hurtin...

I pretty much haven't needed to spend over 100.00 bucks to purchase a new drive for the last 5 years to stay with ample diskspace and technology....

That has come to a halt...

In other words, a 100 bucks every 2 years would be all I'd need to invest in a harddrive and the technology and size would be a on sliding scale, and would always work out...

GTFOOH.

How did I miss that?

Ok, I checked NewEgg and Microcenter, and am a BIG fan of B&H....

WTF?

Thank you sir!

Just like the CPU speed/price curve, storage and memory prices will flatten out, I'm pretty sure, lets hope for its gonna take a while.

No problem :-D
- seems NewEgg & Microsenter has some too:

www.newegg.com

www.microcenter.com

NAH! Those drugs have worn off...

The one you listed has a 1 YEAR WARRANTY, whereas I actually have the 1 TB versions of the same drives (Seagate) in a "C/D" drive setup on my main machine, but the only difference is that they came with a 3 and 5 year warranty respectively.

I bought and installed those drives in 6/2009, so now's about the time for me to upgrade...

Normally I would just image and keep it movin, but I might as well do a clean install of Win 7 since I have it...currently on XP.

The ones currently listed at NewEgg and Microcenter are still too pricey.

I see one at NewEgg for 150.00 and it has a 3 yr warranty, but that's still too much, since I want to buy 2.

This is some BS.

3 years warrenty 122 - usd www.newegg.com
Might list something else at your end, Im in Europe...

If its any consolation, those drives are about 240 locally here in Norway...

HITACHI?

www.djjohnnym.com

Seagate or WD...

Period.

LOL I know people that would say the exact opposite

Talking from own experience, reviews or what?
My Hitachis has been perforing just as well as my WDs, Seagates and Samsungs...

And it does come with a 3yr warranty, so I really don't see the issue...

Experience.

WD's last FOREVER.

And the one time I DID havea problem with a drive dying "prematurely", the warranty process was THE BOMB.

All they needed was the serial number, and BAM, another drive of equal or better value was sent.

They also provide GREAT tools for diganostics and imaging.

I have never had a Seagate die on me. ***Knock on wood***

Hitachi never made it into the lineup.

Hey, if it ain't broke....

But you admittedly only buy drives every 3 years lol

But AT WORK I replace drives every OTHER day.....

The Hitachi's are ALWAYS failing....

That Deskstar series dies right after the warranty...

So you never really tried Hitatchi or Samsung then?
Just trying to figure out your bias...

FYI, They are used in many Apple products, and supposedly have a good track record...

Hm ok, just read about your experience at work...

**Blank Stare at Apple products****

But yeah, I look at the Brand name's of the drives that I'm REMOVING, and how difficult it is to retrieve data from a failed drive, and I'm replacing Hitachi (and other brands) 10x's more than others.

Now that I think of it, I never see WD's just dying here....and that's what we're replacing them with.

oh yea, forgot about that part...

Experience user of WD here.... great drives.... and the only other external drives that I have real experience with and can say without a doubt that they fail quite often.... Seagate.

Ha, EXTERNAL DRIVES.....

I've only had experience with WD My Books...and interestingly enough, I'm NOT that impressed with them.

None have actually FAILED, but I have had Data Access issues....

I've always been able to retrieve the data, but I understand they "sleep" a lot and subsequently have issues....I've never used one for DJ'ing music from, but for data backup...

The only drive that died on me that I was mad as hell about was a MAXTOR drive, who I think were subsequently taken over by Seagate....

Regardless, I usually replace the drives due to improving technology, Windows needing "reinstallation" (yeah, I know..lol), and the fact that the COST of diskspace was getting cheaper, while the storage was getting exponentially larger over a relatively short span of time.

Since 2009 - a TB @ about 100 bucks should easily equal 3 or 4 TB in 2012 for the same 100 bucks...

That is NOT the case now...

I doubt there will be double capacity drives available in a years time from now. Ie 8TB single 3,5" drives. Believe the "evolution curve" is decreasing when it comes to conventional SATA drives.
Hope it's not, but not to optimistic. Might be different for SSD's though.

But see, they're pushing 120 GB SSD drives like that's something USEFUL.

It's like in the early days of "Electric" cars that go a whopping 20 Miles and 25 MPH "on a single charge"....Hell, you go to Pathmark, and then you have to come right back home to charge up.

I remember getting drive sizes in this order

100GB
200GB
320GB
400GB
500GB
1 TB

Yeah, some weren't double the capacity, but made up for it in buffer cache and technology improvements...

Used to be the same thing with CPU clock speed remember?

On another note, Dell also put Hitatchi drives in their high end mobile workstations.
I don't think they would do that if they didnt trust the drives. Maybe you got an over-representation of a bad batch or something, I never heard any other It people having that amount of trouble with those drives...

I am using Hitachi drive in my Synology Nas Server. They actually recommended the Hitachi drives as well.

All the machines that I'm replacing were Dell Desktops.....older but still.

Western Digital bought Hitachi this year anyway, so comparing WD and Hitachi will be meaningless soon, if not already.

That means that WD, Seagate and Toshiba are the only 3 actual drive manufacturers left.

Wondering if prices has anything to do with the flooding that happened in some Asian countries that supply a lot of the drives around the world? Don't know enough about it.

Who makes the Samsung drives? Toshiba?

Also, not to impressed by the WD MyBook series myself, no actual disk failure, but the power supply crapped out. Same thing happened to 2 of my cheap WD elements backup drives, power supply fail...

Yeah, I just upgraded (from 128GB) both of my RAID SSDs on my Desktop to 256GB......they are madd cheap now, like under $200 each!

Wish they were this cheap when I put the 256GB SSD in my MBP ...that shizz cost me well over $300 for just one.....*sigh*

Still waiting for the 512 models to go down further. My Crucial has dropped a fair bit since I bought last year, but there are quicker models these days, still "premium" priced.

Yeah, 512GBs still cost around $400 each....too rich for my blood!

Consider yourself lucky.
In my part of the world, the cheapest 512 is the Crucial, now at 560 USD.
I bought it about 10 months ago for 860 USD ;-)

You might ask, why didn't I buy online? Well, once shipping and taxes are calculated, it more or less evens out. And if you ever have to return it... you know the drill... Same thing shipping a Rane mixer overseas for service, a real effin bi£€#....

I recently bought 2x 4TB external Hard Drive from OWC.

I have been using Lacie since 2006
www.servimg.com

Hopefully these OWC will do their job well as with my Lacie

Damn, I remember when 500GB was the largest money can buy. They got 3TBs now, I need to pick up some.