New WD 4 TB Black hard drive

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Sadly, it doesn't look like HDD prices will *ever* come back down to where
they were pre-flood.
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Not if you divide the size by price! It's cheap. Only the 500G and 1TB
are still expensive.

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Char said:
Sadly, it doesn't look like HDD prices will *ever* come back down to
where they were pre-flood.
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I'm pretty sure that a 2TB WD Black was $169 pre-flood, so this is a
bargain.
 
Char said:
I don't know about WD. I was buying 2TB Samsung's for ~$69 back then.
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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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
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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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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