Having a heck of a time finding a hard drive at decent price

[Black]

Been a long time since I had to buy a drive.
Looking for an internal 3.5" of at least 1 TB (the 500 GB disk I was using as a landing spot for downloads and for Security Spy captures seems to be gone.) Would be a plus maybe if whatever I buy could replace the drive in my 2010 iMac (a WD FALS1001) if it ever fails.
I've checked Dealmac, MR, Newegg.... where else to look? Not finding any prices that are compelling...

[jdc]

whats a good price?

thought I saw an email from newegg for a 2TB @ $80 -- is that too steep?

[Buzz]

IIRC the newegg email deal is a Toshiba...

[DRR]

I just bought two 3TB externals.

Your best bang for your buck right now is at 3TB. You could get 33% less space for only a $20 savings, or you could get 33% more space for 50% more cost.

[Speedy]

DRR wrote: You could get 33% less space for only a $20 savings, or you could get 33% more space for 50% more cost.

Is that in bits or bytes?

[mikebw]

jdc wrote:
whats a good price?

thought I saw an email from newegg for a 2TB @ $80 -- is that too steep?

I saw the same deal, but then I recalled that I paid the same amount for a 2TB drive a couple years ago before the Tsunami crashed the hard drive market. Seems things are still getting back to where they were? Except we have 3TB and 4TB options I suppose, I could use a new 3TB I think.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Nobody sells new 20 GB drives any more. I am outraged. :cartman:

[Black]

Thanks.. found the newegg e-mail- the Toshiba looks good at $80, deal good through 7/29.
I've gotten used to there not really being any "deals" in those mailings, so only looked at the most recent. You'd think the deal sites would pick up anything worth mentioning... maybe there are better deal sites I don't know about.

[Black]

mikebw wrote:
[quote=jdc]
whats a good price?

thought I saw an email from newegg for a 2TB @ $80 -- is that too steep?

I saw the same deal, but then I recalled that I paid the same amount for a 2TB drive a couple years ago before the Tsunami crashed the hard drive market. Seems things are still getting back to where they were? Except we have 3TB and 4TB options I suppose, I could use a new 3TB I think.
I think I paid $70 for my 2 TB drives back then, and there were even deals at $60. Hard to let go of the expectation that thy should cost less than they did two years ago...

[Bosco]

Bought a Seagate 3TB external drive at Costco last night for $100. Best price I could find.

You can rip out the drive and put it into your iMac. I did the same thing a couple weeks ago with a 2TB external drive.