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Originally Posted by Phobia they have sales like that all the time.. |
It was not a sale :)
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Originally Posted by Oversized Rooster  500GB HDs are perfectly fine. In total, in my household I'm running 6 WD5000AAKS drives. No grinding or clicking here.
Anyway, I think the small drives are going up in price because the demand for them is dropping and retailers keep less stock. By simple economics, something in scarce supply will cost more.
Now...in the PC industry we see various anomalies where newer MUCH better hardware costs far less, but sometimes these fluctuations in price can also be attributed to a lower cost of production for the new stuff. The manufacturer and/or retailer may also have decided to run tighter margins in hopes of selling more of the product.
The general trend with both RAM and HDs is the lowering of prices. I remember how just 2 years back you couldn't even find a 4GB kit of DDR2-800. Back then, a half-decent 2GB kit would hit you at $150-200. Today such a kit is just $50.
As for the HDs...there are 1TB drives out there for the price of a 500GB HD just over 1 year ago. |
You said you use WD, I was talking about the 500/640 Seagate drives. I've spoken to someone local here that runs a shop and says he gets a pile of them every week (seagate 320 & 500) because of failure within 1 to 3 months!
Something is definately up and Seagate is being quiet about it.
Most people blame it on Made In China drive, well that's a load of crap because I've gone through many Maxtors made in China in my older systems, 24/7, and they never failed.