I hate newegg!

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theinv

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Bought 8 x 2TB samsung @ $149 last week, now the price went down to $139...
How can they sell it at such low price? Is the 3TB coming soon?
 
The 2TB disks were overpriced to begin with. 70 euro for 1.5TB but 130+ for 2.0TB? Calculate the price-per-GB yourself. :)

And yeah the 666GB/platter 3-platter 2TB disks will cause prices to fall; and be the sweet spot for the next generation HDDs.
 
You do realize if you contact newegg they will usually give you a refund for the reduced price.
 
I find it funny that the OP picked 2TB drives as an example. Back when the first WD 2TB came out Newegg was completely clueless on pricing. For a long time, you could get a retail boxed WD 2TB at frikkin' *Best Buy* for less than their shittily-packed OEM bare drive. Throw in the cost of a SATA cable with their ripoff shipping charges (often more than the cable itself), and it was no contest.

It used to be that you could pretty much blind-buy anything at Newegg and be pretty sure you got the lowest price, or very very close. Now you have to be more careful.
 
Once 2.5TB+ drives come out it's going to be funny. Anyone with Windows XP will not be able to use them do to the limitations of MBR.
 
Once 2.5TB+ drives come out it's going to be funny. Anyone with Windows XP will not be able to use them do to the limitations of MBR.
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Windows users will be able to use them, They will just have to make more than one partition. Also according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table, vista and 7 will have the exact same limitation. Correct me if i am wrong though I do not follow such things very closely since I do not use windows.
 
My bad. I thought the promo code got you the $30 discount from $179.99 to $149.99
 
bbordwell said:
Windows users will be able to use them, They will just have to make more than one partition. Also according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table, vista and 7 will have the exact same limitation. Correct me if i am wrong though I do not follow such things very closely since I do not use windows.
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XP is limited to only using MBR (Max 2TB per volume). Vista or 7 both can use GPT.

I guess technically XP users will still be able to use a 2.5TB+ drive they would just have to partition it.
 
Just wait till 3tb+ drives hit and you can't use 'em for a boot drive on any operating system.
 
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