Price Guide, November 2005: Storage
by Haider Farhan on November 19, 2005 7:36 AM EST- Posted in
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On the SCSI Ultra320 front, the best priced drive is currently the 147GB Maxtor 10,000RPM (8MB cache) [RTPE: 8D147J0] on sale for about $387.00. This drive has seen a price decrease of about $30.00 and as you can see from the graph below, it has been dropping in price every couple of weeks.
Maxtor Ultra320 147GB 10000RPM 8MB Atlas 10K V 80-pin
The new SAS drives are still extremely expensive; ranging from anywhere between about $225 for a 36.7GB, 15,000RPM drive to about $1340 for a 146GB, 15,000RPM drive.
The best price we can find at the moment would be the either the 147GB Maxtor 10,000RPM with 16MB of cache [RTPE: 8D147S0] or the 73.4GB Maxtor 10,000 RPM with 16MB of cache [RTPE: 8D073S0]. Both going for about $3.00 per GB.
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rrcn - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - link
Updated. ;-)AtaStrumf - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - link
I guess this is it. HDD prices have been very stable for quite some time now and it doesn't look like this is going to change anytime soon. Too bad :-( because there's always the need for more storage. I've been hoping to get a 300 GB drive for a while now, but the prices refuse to drop to current 250 GB levels which is as high as I'm willing to go. 250 GB is just not enough of an improvement over my 200 GB drive. I suppose I'll give it another 6 months then.