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From what I have seen hard drives are pretty much back to pre flood prices now in $/GB terms, there has just been 18 months of price progress gone. Meanwhile S
by polshaw 14y ago
From what I have seen hard drives are pretty much back to pre flood prices now in $/GB terms, there has just been 18 months of price progress gone.
Meanwhile SSDs have done a hell of a lot of catching up.
- danieldk 14y agoIndeed, the SSD that I bought a year to go at 180 Euro (Vertex 3 128GB) is now around 90 Euro. Yesterday I bought a 256GB SSD at 175 Euro. 256GB is probably enough for most regular users, and in about a year the price will be well below 100 Euro. There will be little incentive to buy a hard disk once the general public becomes more aware of the speed of SSDs.
- Osiris 14y agoI don't think that's true. They have come down but not to the absurdly cheap level they were before the flood. As an anecdote, I purchased a 2 TB hard drive just a few months before the flood for $60 from Newegg. Now, the cheapest 2 TB drive on Newegg is $100. So, they have come down but still haven't recovered. This is why I haven't been able to bring myself to buy another 2 TB drive because I know I'd be paying a 50% premium over what I paid last time.
- ars 14y agoThat's not just the flood. Hard disks are basically a Dupoploy now, so with less competition they are raising prices.