Best HDD Deals (considering the Floo

Finny76

Finny76

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These are the BEST DEALS i found on HDDs. As everyone knows the Thailand floods has caused a massive shortage of HDDs and the supply is short as compared to the demand.
Prices are going to increase over the year. These are the best deals i found out so far, since NEWEGG prices are ridiculous. Feel free to post links and prices.

These are the BEST prices i found for HDDs less than $99 @Microcenter!:
 
It is over $100 so not sure if anyone would be willing to pay that much for 1TB... Plus it says sold out at my local store!??!

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Considering the similar drives on newegg are 220.......in stock in 6 stores near me...

finny76 said:
It os over $100 so not sure if anyone would be willing to pay that much for 1TB... Plus it says sold out at my local store!??!

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W.Feather said:
Best buy still has WD 1TB Blacks for $120...

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western...91732&skuId=8909595&st=wd 1tb black&cp=1&lp=7
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What?! You can get a 2TB WD drive for much cheaperrrrr. Just take it apart and you have a good WD drive :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002QEBMCI

$114 shipped here for 2TB so why would you pay $120 for half the space? I heard there is a shortage, but damnnnn that just shows how bad WORST Buy's store is :p
 
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Exactly. take the Extra HDDS and hut them out to use internal ones!

After some time there will be a shortage of External HDDS!
 
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If you can get by with what you have now or re-using older drives, do it. No sense in paying 200+% now if you can wait for Thailand to recover.
 
What !?!? fuck up your warranty. All i was doing is giving a link to where you could buy a SPECIFIC drive cheaper than other places, i could give two shits about you finding a WD Green in an enclosure that as soon as you open it you lose the warranty. The WD Black has a 5 yr. warranty last I checked......get off your bloody high horse and realize what the hell i was posting

Greene420 said:
What?! You can get a 2TB WD drive for much cheaperrrrr. Just take it apart and you have a good WD drive :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002QEBMCI

$114 shipped here for 2TB so why would you pay $120 for half the space? I heard there is a shortage, but damnnnn that just shows how bad WORST Buy's store is :p
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xIronCrossx said:
Don't buy HDD's now...
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and what...wait 2 years for the price to get back to what they are now?

people cant wait for HDD prices to drop! yeah it pains me to pay $!00+ for 1TB HDDS, but what can you do?

F!@!%# the Thailand floods! :mad:
 
xIronCrossx said:
Don't buy HDD's now...
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and what...wait 2 years for the price to get back to what they are now?

people cant wait for HDD prices to drop! yeah it pains me to pay $!00+ for 1TB HDDS, but what can you do?

F!@!%# the Thailand floods! :mad:
 
I'm still lol @ the guys that bought their HDD a month ago trying to capitalize. I'm just going to suck it up, go to Best Buy and get 3 2TB drives to put in my NAS.
 
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W.Feather said:
What !?!? fuck up your warranty. All i was doing is giving a link to where you could buy a SPECIFIC drive cheaper than other places, i could give two shits about you finding a WD Green in an enclosure that as soon as you open it you lose the warranty. The WD Black has a 5 yr. warranty last I checked......get off your bloody high horse and realize what the hell i was posting
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Checked every serial number on the drives i took out of their enclosures, they all have a 1 year warranty.

in 2 years if that drive takes a shit on me i could probably buy a 2TB drive off the forum for $40...5 years ago i bought 2 WD 160GB hard drives that i'm still using now so i'll take that risk any day. Sure you don't get a 5 year warranty but you get a 2TB drive for over 1/2 the price...kind of a moot point
 
id rather NOT a buy a HDD unless it has a full warranty like an OEM and RETAIL box drive!
Not worth gutting the drive out and taking a risk :S
 
why are you guys busting his balls over what is a great idea... buy a harddrive for 1/2 off with a 1 year warranty. sounds good to me.. what's the big darn deal??
 
External 2TB Hitachi's at Office Max B&M's for $77 + tax. YMMV on those. Most are saying they are 7200's inside. Haven't opened mine yet.
 
I'm at the point where I would just not buy a harddrive right now. The prices are stupid. TG I have a spare 1tb black. Refurbs are selling for more than new drives cost a month ago...
 
CruisD64 said:
I'm at the point where I would just not buy a harddrive right now. The prices are stupid. TG I have a spare 1tb black. Refurbs are selling for more than new drives cost a month ago...
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It is only going to get worse with time... IT will take a while for the drives to get back to $50/1Tb
 
shoota said:
why are you guys busting his balls over what is a great idea... buy a harddrive for 1/2 off with a 1 year warranty. sounds good to me.. what's the big darn deal??
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Those drives will have no warranty because they know which drives were put into enclosures by the serial.

If no warranty doesn't bother you, go for it.
 
Old Hippie said:
Those drives will have no warranty because they know which drives were put into enclosures by the serial.

If no warranty doesn't bother you, go for it.
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I've entered the serial numbers of all 6 of them on the WD website...everyone showed a 1 year warranty...besides how many people out there are gonna use the 5 year warranty anyway? in 5 years most users here would have upgraded. 5 years ago i bought 2 160GB WD hard drives and i upgraded to a 500GB hdd 2 years ago.

before the HDD crisis HDD prices were so low anyway you'd be a fool not to back up your shit...so a 5 year warranty was a fucking moot point...and it's a moot point now if you can get a drive with a 1 year warranty for over 1/2 the price


Binar said:
SSD drives are a better deal now
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no where near a better deal if you do $/GB
 
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