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...
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.
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.
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...
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....
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)