Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: MaSonZ on July 25, 2012, 08:12:05 PM
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In the local Staples yesterday, same Seagate 1.0 TB drive that I have....$94.99. In december I got my drive for $130 at BestBuy. Are the waters in Singapore or wherever that low to the point that drive prices are dropping? Even SATA III 120GB SSD's are low on price.
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They are slowly coming down, but the HDD Companies are pushing the SSD's (which continue to come down in price).
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ah. when you say "pushing" you mean the production so supply is more = to demand, correct?
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I got my Samsung 1TB about 2 months ago for $90 on a Newegg sale. Original price was $110 I think. Still been working fine and I use it daily to hold about 400GB worth of games so far.
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10,000 rpm or bust! :banana:
:airplane:~<DeadStickMac
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ah. when you say "pushing" you mean the production so supply is more = to demand, correct?
He meant that the "memory" companies are pushing SSDs... I believe... for the profits. The demand will not change much until the price comes down a lot more. The smaller units are already down to $1/GB but they are primarily only good for file servers. Still devoting a 60GB unit to a 4GB file server (FreeNAS) seems like such a waste.
HD manufaturers already have 3GB units down to $150 or so.
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HDD motor/electronic production is slowly recovering. An overproduction in Flash chips is responsible for SSD price drops although those flash manufacturers start to reduce production to get their sale prices up.
I was lucky to get my 2TB WD Green drive (for 60€) just before this toejam happened in Thailand (not Singapore).