In March, when I went to buy a hard drive, I did some quick comparison of prices and found that 320 GB drives were the cheapest per gig, so I bought one.
In August, I had filled up that hard drive and did the same research again, and found 500 GB had become the cheapest per gig.
4-ch, do you consider this when buying hard drives? Do you store as much high-quality audio/video/other space-hungry stuff as me, or are you happily plugging away on 40 GB drives still? Any bets on when 750 GB or 1 TB disks will take the cheapest-per-gig spot?
Yes, of course. I recently bought a 500 GB disk, but there's only ~200 GB left after one month of usage. It's so annoying! I'm not using it for porn either. Gotta buy a huge lot of DVDs soon, sucks that dual layer discs still are expensive as fuck.
I always buy cheapest per GB, which is why I bought 4x500 and not 3x750 for my new RAID setup. I will wait and hopefully by the time I fill the current one, 750 will be a bit cheaper and 5 bay RAID units will be more affordable.
For overflow, DVDs are a workaround, but if you want to actually have access to that data you'd better get an automatic disk switcher.
sure.
I bought a 1 TB for about $180 after coupon a few weeks ago.
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That's great if you mean USD. I'll keep an eye out for deals like that.
750gig for $179, promo code is EMC1206HDD01
subscription to their newsletter FTW
Do they ship outside the US though? If not, doesn't count.
>>5
Yep, USD.
I check http://forums.slickdeals.net/forumdisplay.php?sduid=0&f=9 and http://www.fatwallet.com/c/18/ every now and then for good tech deals, or search if I'm looking for a particular product.
That time I just happened to be looking and saw it.