Good deal if you are able to pick it up from one of the three stores in WA or one store in Vic (only Wangara WA currently has stock, but other locations will be 'available next day transfer'), otherwise shipping is quite expensive.
Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 2TB 7200RPM Internal HDD $82 Pick Up or + Delivery @ PLE
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You'd think after all these years they'd have made them spin faster…
We did have 10k RPM WD consumer drives (Raptor) and SCSI had 15k and 12k enterprise drives. But once SSD's showed up it killed the market of faster spinning drives, for a while there 5400/5900RPM became the trend again.
But once SSD's showed up it killed the market of faster spinning drives
SSD's are only a fad…
Similar to LP's and CD's. CD sales are dropping now while LP sales are increasing…
Same thing will happen with hard disks.
HDDs, pfff, tape drives could be about to boom again.
@jv:
Funny we're having this conversation tonight, I've just finished working on a document called "technology milleniums wouldn't recognise"
All the good stuff is in there :)
"SSD's are only a fad…"
Ok I'll take the bait…..
@cryptos: Duh. Why would people continue to want fast computers? In a few years people will go back to wishing they had two minute boot times and had to wait ten minutes to load all their programs.
Thanks I've bought one. 👍
I'm surprised 2TB and 4TB hdd's aren't a lot cheaper by now. Prices really haven't moved as much as they should have. I bought 4TB drives in 2014 for a similar price to what they cost today.
To me 2TB is worth $50 and 4TB a touch over $100 but we aren't seeing anything like those prices yet.
This isn't an attack on this deal but an observation of the market in general. Since those floods in Thailand HDD prices have never resumed the trend they had been on prior.
I think that's also due to the price increases of SSDs from the lack of supply, hard for the price of HDDs to go down when SSDs are going up.
Yeah fair call I didn't think about SSD's but they haven't moved down for awhile either have they.
Yeah they've actually moved up for over half a year (same with RAM). Google 'SSD price increase' and there's a few articles on it. I used to post many SSD deals, but observing MSY/ebay/Amazon prices SSDs are now 10-30% more expensive than what they were a year ago.
they haven't moved down for awhile either have they.
More to do with the $AU
@lyl:
I honestly hadn't thought about it but you're right. I also used to post a lot of HDD deals from Amazon but for the same reasons I don't bother anymore. The $AU hasn't helped but it's held up better than I thought it would have (if you'd asked me a few years ago where I thought it'd be now)
EDIT: Yikes it's gone midnight, I'm off to bed! Nothing like a good old HDD thread to spark conversation at midnight I guess :)
Do people still use 2TB drives? I have 3 WD Green 2TB drives sitting on my shelf with nothing to do with them…
I have a file server RAID made up of a lot of 2TB drives. Not a trivial job to build a RAID based on bigger drives and transfer all the data etc. Still require the occasional 2TB replacement after years of 24/7 use.
Yeah I have a spare 5 bay NAS filled with them but my 2TB drives were purchased in 2009/2010. The only reason I still use them is they won't die. It's in a hybrid RAID6 so it's only 6TB total space, obviously technology has left it for dead today. But it does the job for now.
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