The main reason for HDD price increases is due to consolidation of manufactures. WD bought Hitachi, Seagate purchased Samsung. Less competition == higher prices. :disappointed:
Mada06 to Yesgo
1 Jan 174#5
The 3TB Western Digital hard drive, an essential for any poor person. Behave!
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ukez
1 Jan 178#1
HDD prices suck!
rnem170 to ukez
1 Jan 172#3
Were cheaper before brexit. Everything imported has gone up.
dreamager
1 Jan 17#2
Tempting, if only 2tb blacks were a similar price
Yesgo
1 Jan 172#4
Dumb ass Brexit. The poor just gets poorer...
Mada06 to Yesgo
1 Jan 174#5
The 3TB Western Digital hard drive, an essential for any poor person. Behave!
haritori to Yesgo
2 Jan 171#17
What you on about? prices went up when most manufacturers facilities were destroyed in the Tsunami in 2004 and they never recovered..
oh and look the price was the same, before and after the Referendum.. but now is the cheapest its ever been...
sunama
1 Jan 17#6
Reading through the comments, it would appear that the 3TB drive is actually a WD Green. So it will run at around 5400RPM (not 7200RPM).
slayermatt to sunama
1 Jan 17#11
The listing does state it is a 5400rpm drive however :stuck_out_tongue:
friar_chris
1 Jan 171#7
Member when a Samsung 2TB Spinpoint drive was £55? We've come a long way in the last 6 years.
SCOUSEKEVIN
1 Jan 17#8
Buy from a Known supplier, or one supplied by Amazon. You would be amazed by how many second/hand/user hard drives are sold on Amazon as NEW and the prices are about the same as for a genuine New one LOL, though if you have been stung it's not so funny.
jouster
1 Jan 17#9
Why do people think they need a black instead of a blue.
What exactly are these being used for?
CraigT to jouster
1 Jan 17#13
I bought a black for the 5 year warranty and supposed best performance (for a HDD). My only comments are that it is still working and that it is noisy.
Blues okay for regular use, green for low power usage, red for nas use.
If I were starting from scratch I'd go for a 500Gb ssd, with a WD blue for my data files, backed up regularly to a WD black.
Useful link: Reddit conversation about the WD colours
I wasn't able to find a good comparison on the WD site!
frogbog
1 Jan 171#10
would 5400rpm hard drive be okay for video editing HD movies?
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The main reason for HDD price increases is due to consolidation of manufactures. WD bought Hitachi, Seagate purchased Samsung. Less competition == higher prices. :disappointed:
All comments (28)
What you on about? prices went up when most manufacturers facilities were destroyed in the Tsunami in 2004 and they never recovered..
oh and look the price was the same, before and after the Referendum.. but now is the cheapest its ever been...
What exactly are these being used for?
Blues okay for regular use, green for low power usage, red for nas use.
If I were starting from scratch I'd go for a 500Gb ssd, with a WD blue for my data files, backed up regularly to a WD black.
Useful link:
Reddit conversation about the WD colours
I wasn't able to find a good comparison on the WD site!