Hard Drive Prices have fallen ridiculously! o_0

[HeatSurge]

I remember just half a year ago or so I was buying a 1TB drive for about the same price as this ($139) and thought it was a pretty good deal:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145298

and today I just bought one of those above with TWICE the capacity.

This is just insane.

I wonder if by the end of this year there will be a 4-5TB drive for the same price...

 

[LiveTrash]

I thought that first one was a 1TB and when I realized it was a 2TB I was like OMFLOLWTFBBQ!!

 

[Tee.Kay.]

well who wants to buy a hitachi
i know i dont

 

[HeatSurge]

I hear they've had bad rep before they merged with IBM, but that was years ago.

I've had 3 of their HD's for a period of 3 years or so, and I've never had a problem (knock on wood).

Every manufacturer has problems once in a while - for example seagate I believe had an epic fiasco with extremely high failure rates of their 1TB hard drives when they were first released.

I believe hitachi/ibm is just as good as any other manufacturer TBH.