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elwoodblues
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Re: Hard Drive Deals

1TB is way to small these days, but damn they've gotten cheap.

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Well there was an offer up a few days ago for 4TB@159 think it was tigerdirect, but the sale has expired.

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You replied to a post with the price in it, why are you asking me?
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said by Guspaz:

You replied to a post with the price in it, why are you asking me?

Because I checked Newegg and there is no listing for a Samsung 840 500 gb for the price you claim...

$399 at Newegg
»www.newegg.ca/Product/Pr ··· 20147249

Tiger Direct has this for $299
»www.tigerdirect.ca/appli ··· tId=5300

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Because NewEgg and TigerDirect are the only stores in the world, right? Nobody else could possibly have a lower price?

»www.bhphotovideo.com/c/p ··· 2_5.html
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And it is a store I am not familiar with. Next time should I post saying an item is available for a certain price and not include a link?

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said by elwoodblues:

1TB is way to small these days, but damn they've gotten cheap.

Picked up a Touro 1TB mobile, for my WD Live, for $50 at Staples, last week.

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We just had a big debate on the last page of this thread about B&H shipping costs... they've been mentioned many times in this thread, including two posts before your first one...
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BHP is an American company and ships from the states. Be prepared to get hosed on taxes and brokerage when it crossed the border.

American posted prices will generally be cheaper than Canadian ones. My experience with BHP was buying a set of wireless sennheiser headphones. They were over $150 cheaper than in Canada. I think they only shipped via UPS, so I did the math on how much UPS charged for brokerage and what the tax would be. The brokerage was expensive but I still came out quite a bit.

Comparing the American retail price to a Canadian retail price is a bit misleading.

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said by zod5000:

BHP is an American company and ships from the states. Be prepared to get hosed on taxes and brokerage when it crossed the border.

Look up the thread before you type. B&H shows up front all costs, including brokerage. It is posted above with specific examples. They still come in cheaper in many cases.

From the example above:

HST:$32.76
Brokerage:$1.56
Disbursement:$0.98
Security & Handling:$1.05
Total:$36.35

SubTotal: $251.99
Customs Clearance : $36.35 - see above, mostly tax
Shipping: $9.60 - purlator
Order Total: USD $297.94
(CAD) $327.88 - based on current exchange

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In fact, the last time I did a comparison, there were less additional fees on a B&H order than there were on the same item shipped from TigerDirect Canada...

The only thing is the currency exchange.
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Over on another part of this forum... User "Network Guy" posted that Newegg.COM (not .CA) has Seagate 4TB internal drives on sale for $140.00 including shipping if you use the coupon code in his post....

»[HOT Deal] Seagate 4 TB internal HDD $140 shipped

Not sure if the coupon can be used at Newegg.CA...
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Ooops duplicate post...

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Nope, just tired it, the code doesn't work.
$200 (Newegg.ca) is over priced, I bought my last one for 170.
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Seagate external 3TB for $109

»www.newegg.ca/Product/Pr ··· nctionCA

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No idea if it's the same one, but I'm having problems with an external Seagate 3TB that I bought not long ago. I'm not even sure what the problems are, but my backups to it keep failing and I've switched to a different drive until I figure it out.

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Seagate has sky-high failure rates on many of their drives, so that's not surprising. Buying a 3TB Seagate drive would be a mistake at any price.

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Seagate has sky-high failure rates on many of their drives, so that's not surprising. Buying a 3TB Seagate drive would be a mistake at any price.
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Disagree. Granted, you shouldnt have to flash hard drive firmware. IF you flashed 7200.11's firmware, theyre tanks(except for the 1.5 TBs). Too bad they nixed their warranty though. 7200.12 were rock steady too.
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I've had more failures with Seagates than other manufacturers... and articles on the web seem to indicate similar experiences....

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Sounds about right. Back when I was in the industry Seagate had a 40% failure rate for us. WD about half of that.

Anyway, for anyone who has a US drop box and wants a cheap SSD 240GB Kingson SSDNow V300 Series 240GB for $109 w/Free Shipping

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said by vue666:

I've had more failures with Seagates than other manufacturers... and articles on the web seem to indicate similar experiences....

I have more failures with Seagate SAS than WD SATA but I've witnessed plenty of failures with WD drives and worse, both companies send you refurbished drives that break within a few months.

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I had a 2tb Seagate SATA and a 2tb WD SATA fail recently. Both replacement drives were brand new. Nice surprise.

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Recall the days of old when you sent in a bad drive and they sent you a shiny new one, sometimes with double the capacity of the original - I miss those days.
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$290 for a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD on the Newegg.ca Shell Shockers today:
»www.newegg.ca/Special/Sh ··· 162014_1

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Damn that's come down in price, I have just too many summer projects around the house to spend that quid now.
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San disk just launched a 4tb SSD drive.Thety're planning on releasing a 6tb soon and an 8tb by the end of the year.

HOLY MOLEY , no idea what the price is, but it's gotta push the smaller capacity SSD drives firmly into the mechanical price range.

»www.theinquirer.net/inqu ··· rise-ssd

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· 1xM#t=58

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Mmmmm, want, but I imagine the price comes with a good case of sticker shock. Think the manufactures of mechanical hard drives will conspire to keep their prices high? I think they will.

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I don't see why this thing would have any impact on SSD pricing at all. NAND is a commodity market, and SSD prices are largely driven by NAND pricing.
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You send in a kidney, they send you the SSD.

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Why? One of the biggest issues with SSD is the capacity, Sandisk has just broken that. I've already commented upthread about how the price is coming down on the lower capacity (512gb and less) drives.

You can pick up a 1tb mechanical drive for 50 bucks these days, because a 4tb is in the $170 range. Mechancial drives are a commodity also.

So you would consequently expect that as SSD capacities increase, the lower ones would drop in price (cost per gb/tb)