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    Whats a good price on HDD?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Ataranea, Mar 19, 2008.

  1. Ataranea

    Ataranea Notebook Evangelist

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    What is usually considered a good price a HDD? Im currently looking at the 250gb and 200gb HDD on Newegg and its around 164 dollars for the 200gb/7200rpm.
     
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I usually check NewEgg and CD-W...they have, from what I've seen, better prices than most.
     
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Newegg prices are usually pretty good for an e-tailer and almost always better than your typical brick and mortar. You can usually find items a bit cheaper on ebay, but they'll usually be used and/or more suspicious looking. That's not to say ebay purchases are bad, just less reliable than Newegg and others.
     
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  4. Ataranea

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    Hey anyone know where I can get one of those new Hitachi 5k320 320gb HDDs? And does anyone know the performance on them?
     
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    Dunno if you can get the 5k320 yet, but the 320GB Samsung, Toshiba, and WD drives are available on Newegg. Benches for the Samsung unit can be found here; I'd wager that the 5k320 should offer similar performance. I think the whole lot of 320GB drives (maybe save one of them) have the same platter configuration?
     
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    cool, thanks alot.
     
    Ataranea, Mar 19, 2008
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