man dont get me started on newegg.
Lately, i think there a bit too inflated.
The prices havent been deals anymore.
Also i bet you totally they are controlling the hard drive market.
It was stated that the shortages arent really shortages as thought, and more suppliers holding inventory out of greed so they can hike up the prices.
In all this is a very risky gamble for the magnetic hard drive market.
New system builders now dont have a price benifit on going magnetic and will allow them to try out SSD's for the first time as boot drives.
This will make them SSD addicts like i and many others are who already are on SSD's, and totally make magnetic only used for storage purposes.
Who wants a uber fast 10k rpm magnetic when you can get a SSD which will spank that backwards silly in speed if its not storage related.
And who is going to need the uber fast high capacity magnetic when your going on storage.
Has anyone had any latency issues streaming anything off a 5900rpm drive over a 7200rpm drive?
-quick answer... no... so no one will even bother to look at a 7200rpm anymore because if one needed speed, they would be looking at SSD's.
So if HDD vendors dont act quickly and shape up, i sense they are in a world of hurting to come soon, when people just wont bother with ultra fast magnetic hard drives, which typically cost the most.
Even for storage they are still terrible. Have you ever actually stored or retrieved 2 TB of data to/from a 2 TB drive? It still takes over
5 hours at the maximum mechanical speed for
SEQUENTIAL... god help you if they are lots of little files like source code, etc. Meanwhile I can backup/restore my entire 960 GB of SSD in about 8 minutes; if it was 2 TB it would STILL be only
8 minutes to move 1920 GB of data. I could fill and erase my SSD over 40 times in the time it takes the HDD to complete one transfer.
HDD = Horrible Data Delays
That's the thing with SSDs, massive parallelism. Speed scales with capacity so throughtput relative to capacity stays the same whether it's moving 240 GB off one drive at 500 M/sec or moving 1920 GB of data off 8 x 240 GB RAID0 drives at 4,000 M/sec, 8 minutes flat either way. Meanwhile hard drives, you're stuck at .1 GB/sec regardless if you have a 1 GB HDD or a 10 TB HDD; in other words HDD get SLOWER with respect to total storage capacity as they get larger. As data size increases and HDD capacity increases, it just takes longer and longer to manipulate that data at "dial up" speeds. You're now moving 2,000,000 MB at the same speed you used to only have to move 100 MB with.
Cannot wait for the day that mechanical media is no longer manufactured. Measuring anything in "megabytes per second" anymore reminds me of dial up or doing punch cards by hand. Tape and disk can DIAF.
My only gripe with SSDs now is that they are only good if you have OTHER SSDs to transfer data between. Fastest SSD in the world won't do any good when you still have to install software off a CD at 10 bits per hour or even have a 5 MB/sec generic thumb drive. I'm so spoiled by SSD that my 120 MB/sec 64 GB Supersonic flash drive feels too slow Time to get a USB 3.0/eSATA 6G 2.5" ext enclosure with a 3rd/4th gen SSD in it.... just to take it to other people's computers that still use USB 2.slow and "8 tracks" for primary data storage.