Seagate 3.5 inch 3TB Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive 7200rpm £114.99 @ Amazon

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  canada1610 months, 2 weeks ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Been this price for ages. when it gets to 100.00 I will bite.
  Ebuyer sells at 119, then the next day its 114, then amazon price match, its been going on like this for months.
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  neemo10 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #2Show comment toolsReply

  im still waiting as well
  i don't think we are going to hit the sub £100 for a while yet
  i need to fill the bays of my N40L
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  canada1610 months, 2 weeks ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  No but I found a 4tb hitachi external you can rip out for 176.00 delivered.
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  rkl10 months, 5 days ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  That 4TB Hitachi sounds worse value (115+1/3rd = 153.33!) plus the extra hassle of disassembling an external drive caddy. I read recently that the hard drive firms (all 3 of them) are intending to price gouge end-users well into next year, using the Thailand flood excuse for an extra year longer than they should. As far as I know, pretty well all hard disk manufacturing is now back to pre-flood levels (and has been for months), so even accounting for fulfiling backlogged demand, we should be seeing price drops now.
  
  Instead, we're getting barely moving HDD prices - this 115 price point has been on and off for about 3 months now (i.e. only considered a temporary price match point and not a permanent one). What this means is that the hard disk manufacturers are shooting themselves in the foot and making SSDs - which are continuously dropping in price as daily offers flood HUKD! - much more attractive this year than they were last year.
  
  In fact, SSD prices (and performance) are so good now that anyone who hasn't yet bought a 120GB SSD to boot from and put their most popular applications on really needs their head examining, because the 50p per GB SSD price point is actually becoming a reality! Of course, adding one of these 3TB babies with the SSD is the way to go.

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