Upgrading HDD

[regulardrake]

I built me a new machine probably 4 or 5 months ago that I use for every day work machine/records my xbox 360 game play. When I was ordering parts I decided to be cheap and save a 100 bucks and use a old 250 GIG Western Digital Blue drive to record/save my videos as a temp drive to until I am ready to get a bigger drive.

Now that the wedding is over and my bank account aint crying so much anymore, I think I am ready to upgrade to a bigger drive. I have all ways been a Western Digital fan but I got burnt at work with two DOA 1TB Western Digital Green drives that we ordered for our fileserver about a year ago. We did RMA them sent them back to Western Digital and the replacements never showed up. The boss did try hunting them down but was getting the run around and to make a long story sort company lost 200 bucks. So I am little scared to order a Western digital for myself. lol Here's a few that I was looking at, but I am also up for anyone's idea.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185&RandomID=59026242551561420111029140523
Love the price of this one, but I am not sure if they are getting any more or not.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
This is the other one I am looking at. But don't know.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145533
Never really heard of these guys. So I not sure on this one too.

Now one thing I am thinking about doing is taking whatever drive I order and putting it in my linux fileserver box and keeping this 250Gig as a recording drive only and storing the video on the fileserver when i am doing recording/editing.

 

[pepe2907]

Samsung F3 is a good one but the price obviously was risen, cause about a month ago 1 TB standard drives were about 60-65 /and this one is sold out at newegg/. There were recent big buyouts/merges in the HDD manufacturing, now practically everything is just 2 big companies on the market - WD /bought Hitachi's drive business/ and Seagate /owns Samsung drives/, which is probably the reason for this.
The WD s Black series are the good ones of WD /the WD's weakest point in my experience is their controller circuit and it's doubled on the Blacks/ but they are more expensive in general and even more at the moment.
The Hitachi I usually like, but this one should be some server model for that price. The regular drive should be somewhere around the price of the Samsung.
See this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304 - not so cheap, but definitely cheaper.
Another Samsung with not so high price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152238

But obviously at the moment there is turmoil on the market and the prices are way too high.

 

[regulardrake]

Thanks for the reply. I was wondering why all the prices are so damn high, that explains it. I didn't really want to spend more then 100 bucks on a drive, so these two are calling my name. The question I have for you, since you like Hitachi would you spend the extra 9 bucks or save 9 bucks and get the other one? They almost look identical drives to me.

 

[k1114]

The price rose because the flooding in thailand, has nothing to do with buyouts/mergers. Just a fyi.

 

[pepe2907]

I bought a Samsung F3 like 10 days ago /obviously just outrunned the rise/ for a good price - some less as 80 USD with 20% VAT included /Europe/. Is this answers your question?

OK, it may be the flooding, whatever, what's the difference?
But on a second thought your notice may have meaning /like it's less probable this to be permanent/ .

 

[acerace]

Most of WD and Seagate HDD are manufactured in Thailand, that's why the price rose so high. Also, just fyi.

 

[thesnappyfingers]

you picked a very bad time to buy a hdd. 3 weeks ago i could get a f3 spinpoint for 70.00 most 1tb hdd are at 100.00 now due to the flooding. it should only be a temp price increase due to lack of supply.