New WD 4 TB Black hard drive

[Mr. Man-wai Chang]

Sadly, it doesn't look like HDD prices will *ever* come back down to where
they were pre-flood.

Not if you divide the size by price! It's cheap. Only the 500G and 1TB
are still expensive.

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[Tom Del Rosso]

Sadly, it doesn't look like HDD prices will *ever* come back down to
where they were pre-flood.

I'm pretty sure that a 2TB WD Black was $169 pre-flood, so this is a
bargain.

 

[Char Jackson]

I'm pretty sure that a 2TB WD Black was $169 pre-flood, so this is a
bargain.

I don't know about WD. I was buying 2TB Samsung's for ~$69 back then.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

I don't know about WD. I was buying 2TB Samsung's for ~$69 back then.

The 4TB drive in question is a WD BLACK, not blue or green. I doubt the $69
2TB Samsungs were comparable, with a 5-year warranty.

 

[Char Jackson]

The 4TB drive in question is a WD BLACK, not blue or green. I doubt the $69
2TB Samsungs were comparable, with a 5-year warranty.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I make no representations as to whether one
drive model was superior in any way to the other. I only wanted to point out
that I was only interested in the Samsung 2TB drives. For my purposes, they
were the best value for the price.

 

[bruce56]

It wouldn't surprise me that the floods were just an excuse to reduce

capacity. The HDD industry is in its sunset years now, lots of

consolidation going on, which also a sign of this being the sunset

years. SSD's are already available in 512MB sizes, the next step up is

the 1TB size, and I think once the SSD hits those sizes, it's game over

for the HDD industry.

Yousuf Khan

I do geophysical processing, and the only use I have for an SSD, is to
install the software on. For that, I only need a 60 GB drive.
I would fill 1 TB data drives easily, and need the HDD, so I can fit more
bytes in fewer drives. The SSD would be nice as a temporary scratch disk,
but I will burn up the write cycles in less than 6 months, and have to
keep buying new disks for a bit more speed.

 

[DevilsPGD]

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I do geophysical processing, and the only use I have for an SSD, is to
install the software on. For that, I only need a 60 GB drive.
I would fill 1 TB data drives easily, and need the HDD, so I can fit more
bytes in fewer drives. The SSD would be nice as a temporary scratch disk,
but I will burn up the write cycles in less than 6 months, and have to
keep buying new disks for a bit more speed.

If you're actually writing that much data in scratch disks, it's very
likely that the investment in replacing a dedicated-to-scratch SSD every
6-months will be a trivial cost vs the time saved, at least assuming you
bill out at or above minimum wage.