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When Hardmac did a teardown of the latest Time Capsule, they found it has a Western Digital WD20EARS hard disk. [0] That drive is listed as $169 MSRP at Amazon

• jws 14y ago
  You might be seeing a premium price for discontinued hardware. The current lineup of WD Green 2TB drives are ~$100. There is no way for me to know if these are lower quality than the previous model or not.
  • Samuel_Michon 14y ago
    Good point. I'm curious as to which HDD models Apple uses nowadays for their Time Capsule, that would allow for a better comparison. I couldn't find that information anywhere. By the way, my first generation Time Capsule has a 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES, which used to retail for over $300. http://goo.gl/Yazvn http://goo.gl/Yazvn
    • jujjine 14y ago
      At the introduction of the Time Capsule, it retailed for less than 100€.
• CrazedGeek 14y ago
  That's how much the hard drive is now. That teardown was done before the Thailand floods, which I'd imagine are related to the current Amazon price. [1] The WD20EARS was only $100 well before that Time Capsule was released. [2] [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-thai-floods-drives-idUSTRE79R66220111028 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-thai-floods-dri... [2] From my Amazon order history: http://i.imgur.com/lYYlR.png http://i.imgur.com/lYYlR.png