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It's been around 6 months. The floods occurred in late October 2011.
The price increase has been mostly artificial, anyway, a scheme by the industry to get a breather to recover from the falling prices of platter drives... unfortunately for them, it has a secondary effect of giving SSD makers a chance to consolidate and go mainstream. Combined with the falling SSD prices (thanks to the Sandforce fiasco), many consumers are finding SSDs to be a necessity - and platter drives' main advantage, capacity, is becoming less of an advantage.
People no longer automatically consider making a 1TB or 2TB drive their main drive - for many, a 120GB or 240GB drive will do (and why not? platter drive makers kept the laptop drive "sweet spot" at 80GB for way too long). They take the tradeoff of speed over capacity... and the sweet spot is still around $200~250 for those consumers. It barely affects a system price.
Keeping the prices artificially high might give Seagate and WD a brief respite, but in the long term, it's yet another nail in their coffin. In 5 years, platter drives will be a specialty tech filling a specific niche - cheap storage server farms.
Awesome home server drives.
If you get more GB per dollar that means the prices are going down. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
250GB for $250 = 1GB/dollar
250GB for $200 = 1.25GB/dollar
Well, the Samsung is a much more mature product, so that wouldn't be surprising. But it's hard to judge from online reviews, and the Seagate has only 1/20 the the number of reviews as the Samsung, which isn't much of a sample size when you think about it.This or the seagate barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM for the same price with promo code? From reviews, it seems the samsung is more reliable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-22148834-L01B
anyone use one of these in a DVR?
curious about how it would perform because the last green drive i used in a DVR had some audio stutter.
Fwiw, also note that the Seagate has only a one-year warranty compared to Samsung's 3 years.This or the seagate barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM for the same price with promo code? From reviews, it seems the samsung is more reliable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-22148834-L01B
I bought 2 of these last summer for $70/ea. Ended up selling them because they wouldn't play nice with my WHS v1 build (these are 4K sector drives). Sold them for $25 each after a couple weeks of use right after the floods (sigh). However, our server is full of Green drives, mostly WD, works fine over the network (even while ripping a DVD, playing back a movie, and having something new recording, granted this scenario probably has multiple drives in use at once).
In retrospect I should have held on to them, could've started a transition to a W8 (WHS v3?) setup with them, or use as externals to transfer files to temporarily. C'est la vie. Otherwise these are pretty highly regarded drives.
I did not have any problems using F4 in WHS v1. I had to do rather convoluted procedure to align partition (creating numerous registry entries and some files) but it worked perfectly. Eventually I migrated to WHS 2011 where F4 is giving me consistent 100+ MB/s read performance (from client PC side, so it includes network). This drive has lower temperature than 1TB WD Green drive. I plan to buy more of those and run in Raid-1 connected to low end LSI controller (less than $40 on eBay).