Half a terrabyte drive ..... for $59

[NYJimbo]

I had a call tonight from a client who wanted to upgrade his computer tommorow with a bigger drive and asked me what it would cost for a 500 gig drive. I do these all the time but tonight it just really struck me.....

A 500 gig WD BLACK (not lame 'green' or 'blue') SATA 2 drive is $59 at newegg. The f-cker has a 5 egg rating which means its top choice stuff.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...136320&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-22-136-320-_-Product

So I quoted him a $49 transfer fee and the $69 (what, I can't mark it up ?) drive fee and he couldnt say "LETS DO IT" fast enough.

I've been in this business for 25 years but every day it still amazes me how cheap things keep getting. Who couldnt possibly afford to go to a 500 gb drive at those prices?. I mean as long as your computer supports it.

My first hard drive was a Seagate ST4038 30 MEGABYTE drive which cost me $1,000. My brain cant even do the math what a 500 gb drive would have cost back then.

 

[seedubya]

About $165,000 dollars.............

 

[NYJimbo]

About $165,000 dollars.............

Thank you, my lacking a calculator, I surely would have had an aneurysm at some point.

 

[MrUnknown]

thanks for pointing out the deal, I might get that. lol.

As for me, the HDD in my first computer was 500MB, wanted to upgrade so we purchased 7GB for $200. I think that drive still works, need to find it. lol.

 

[NYJimbo]

In the late 80's I used to work for Bloomberg Financial (the guy is now mayor of New York City) and when I quit I decided to take my bonuses and use it to upgrade my BBS with three new 700 megabyte SCSI drives. The cost was $6,600. Cash. Out of pocket. These drives served me well and made my BBS the largest in the Tri-State area of New York for about two years.

Two years later I gently placed those drives into a cardboard box, put them out by the curb and watched the garbage men take them away.....

Over six and a half grand of hard earned money, sitting in the back of a truck with soiled baby diapers and empty Coors Light beer cans.

It never gets any easier watching it depreciate.......

 

[MikeBusby]

So thas around $68.00AUD (Australian) so I went and did a search from my local supplier (http://www.tsvc.com.au/home.php?cat=349 second last on page) and retail they are going for $90.00 or around $79.00US.
Not bad seeing as freight is from Brisbane to Townsville (1400 kilometres) is a killer for us here in the deep north (Queensland).

My first hard drive was a tiddler 1GB bigfoot that set me back the best part of $800.00 when it first came out. $400.00+ for my first CDROM.

With the falling prices of Solid state disc drives I might just be lucky enough for santa to drop an 80GB version in my stocking this year for under $200.00AUD

 

[Larry Sabo]

That drive is $65 CAD here, but the Seagate 500GB drive is only $53, and I love Seagates. And out dollar is not worth as much as yours, so it's even cheaper in USDs. Nice to see the price of something going down, so long as it's not computer repair.

 

[NYJimbo]

That drive is $65 CAD here, but the Seagate 500GB drive is only $53, and I love Seagates. And out dollar is not worth as much as yours, so it's even cheaper in USDs. Nice to see the price of something going down, so long as it's not computer repair.

Just be a bit careful on Seagates with a manufactured date from about August 2008 to about April 2009. A huge number of these, especially out of Thailand have a very bad firmware bug that seems to still be popping up.

Go to Seagates forums and look at all the people screaming about this stuff.

 

[MikeBusby]

Seagates are not my favourite hard drives in the world. Too many warranty issues over the years to continue installing them.

My first (not custom built) computer was a HP Pavillion that cost me $3500.00 in 1998. WOW you got a huge Pentium II, 4.5GB hard drive, 64MB ram with a 12x CDROM and floppy drive, Windows 98, onboard V90 modem and a dot matrix printer for an extra $150.00.

My latest custom built cost me $2500.00 including freight
i7 2.66GHZ CPU,
6Gb RAM (Corsair),
EX58-UD5 Gigabyte motherboard,
2x1TB hard drives
1GB GTX285 Video card
Antec 900 Gaming case
850W power supply.
Dual layer DVD Burner
Vista Home Premium 64bit (Because I am a mascohist and love a challange) with free upgrade to Win7

Not that any of the technology was available then but to build something to those specs 11 years ago would have cost $100,000.00+ probably.

Yes I love price drops in components.

I have just had my first charged rate increase in 3 years. My hourly fee went from $75.00 to $90.00 per workshop hour due to the financial crisis biting into my superannuation nest egg.

 

[red12049]

In the late 80's I used to work for Bloomberg Financial (the guy is now mayor of New York City) and when I quit I decided to take my bonuses and use it to upgrade my BBS with three new 700 megabyte SCSI drives. The cost was $6,600. Cash. Out of pocket. These drives served me well and made my BBS the largest in the Tri-State area of New York for about two years.

Two years later I gently placed those drives into a cardboard box, put them out by the curb and watched the garbage men take them away.....

Over six and a half grand of hard earned money, sitting in the back of a truck with soiled baby diapers and empty Coors Light beer cans.

It never gets any easier watching it depreciate.......

Sounds like you and I are from around the same time frame....first hard drive was a 20Mb hard "Card" in an 8088 PC..... I'm originally from NY/NJ and used to haunt BBS'....(wish I had the money I spent on long distance!) mind if I ask the name of yours?

Rick

 

[basic]

In the late 80's I used to work for Bloomberg Financial (the guy is now mayor of New York City) and when I quit I decided to take my bonuses and use it to upgrade my BBS with three new 700 megabyte SCSI drives. The cost was $6,600. Cash. Out of pocket. These drives served me well and made my BBS the largest in the Tri-State area of New York for about two years.

Two years later I gently placed those drives into a cardboard box, put them out by the curb and watched the garbage men take them away.....

Over six and a half grand of hard earned money, sitting in the back of a truck with soiled baby diapers and empty Coors Light beer cans.

It never gets any easier watching it depreciate.......

haha, you could always freeze yourself in a technological era. I don't think i've upgraded or bought a new desktop in almost 10 years because I refuse to admit my expensive rig is now worth squat.

 

[JosephLeo]

I really don't see holding a grudge against technology growth. If I remember well my first PC has a mere 600MHz Athlon processor, 64MB of ram, and a whopping 8gb hard drive (I'm not sure on the specs, it was a long time ago) and here we are only...what, 11 years later and now I have 500gb's in my laptop, 120gb in my iPod, 16gb in my camera, and well terabytes in my desktop. I would love to have a petabyte in my PC by 2020. Of course by then I also hope our idea of a "PC" is completely different from the way it is now.