Tom's Hardware: Topic Expected time for (1 TB) hard drive price drops
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| wusy wrote : The current 0.08-0.07GB/$ with discount is already pretty cheap IMO. |
Yeah, I know 
It's just that if it's gonna drop soon, I wouldn't mind saving a few bucks.
| wusy wrote : They might go down to $70 in a few months or more with 2TBs already rolling in. Not worth the wait IMO if you need it. |
I don't _need_ it right now at all. I'm just getting close to running out of space on my 2x500GB setup right now, so I would like to add another TB sometime in the next few months.
| wusy wrote : They're very useful or archival purposes especially multiples of them in RAID1 or 5 for redundancy if that's what you're looking for (minimum 3 for RAID5). |
Yes, that's right. I'm running 2x500GB in RAID1 right now, so this is going to bring me up to ~1.5TB total space.
| wusy wrote : If you're looking for RAID0 forget about them. HDD in RAID0 is not for speed except special circumstances like video editing. Real speed for typical desktop usage comes from SSD. |
I'm not interested in any of that; this is for a headless box for data storage, webserving, development, etc.
| 4745454b wrote : LOL, I was going to say these drives are around $100, how much cheaper do you want them? |
As cheap as I can get them ;/
There was a sale on Newegg that brought some Hitachis down to $70 a while, but I think $65 would be just right 
| 4745454b wrote : If your walking into your local B&M or compubytes don't buy them there. (my local compubytes is selling the 1TB drives for $220. Even my local staples sells an external 1TB for $170.) |
I don't even know what the price is at Worst Buy. I don't bother to check
| 4745454b wrote : $100 for 1TB isn't cheap enough? |
Oh, if they were $100, there's no way I'd be buying ;/
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