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Cyber Akuma
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From my experience, HGST/Hitachi seems to be the most reliable type of drive out of the very very very few left out there (although I heard that Toshiba are second place now... never even considered Toshiba drives before, Is that true?. I thought they were just re-branded drives.) However, I have been having trouble finding a decently priced one.
When I search for them on Amazon or Newegg I get many results that are about the same price as other brands... but from sketchy resellers, several of which have had a few complaints about shipping used and/or refurbished drives as new. And when I tell Newegg to only show drives being sold by them... the price jumps to about 2x to 3x what other brand's drives cost. Oddly, the 4TB ones seem to be about the same price as others, but not 2 or 3TB.
Haven't had much luck searching through brick-and-mortar stores either, they either don't carry them at all, or they are also priced just as high.
Am I just searching wrong, or are these really just hard to find? My intention is to stick it in an enclosure to "build" basically an external drive for backup and just moving mass amounts of data, and I wanted a quality one, since most of the external drives you can flat out buy are both low-spec and low-quality... unless you want to pay more than what it would cost to basically assemble your own from a drive and enclosure. Sure, this means I will likely need to use a 3.5 instead of a 2.5 drive, but at least that means I can get a 7200RPM model for much much less than a 2.5 7200RPM model would cost. Most of the good enclosures aren't 2.5 inch only anyway.
When I search for them on Amazon or Newegg I get many results that are about the same price as other brands... but from sketchy resellers, several of which have had a few complaints about shipping used and/or refurbished drives as new. And when I tell Newegg to only show drives being sold by them... the price jumps to about 2x to 3x what other brand's drives cost. Oddly, the 4TB ones seem to be about the same price as others, but not 2 or 3TB.
Haven't had much luck searching through brick-and-mortar stores either, they either don't carry them at all, or they are also priced just as high.
Am I just searching wrong, or are these really just hard to find? My intention is to stick it in an enclosure to "build" basically an external drive for backup and just moving mass amounts of data, and I wanted a quality one, since most of the external drives you can flat out buy are both low-spec and low-quality... unless you want to pay more than what it would cost to basically assemble your own from a drive and enclosure. Sure, this means I will likely need to use a 3.5 instead of a 2.5 drive, but at least that means I can get a 7200RPM model for much much less than a 2.5 7200RPM model would cost. Most of the good enclosures aren't 2.5 inch only anyway.
