why is it more expensive than the official store? On Segate's website online store, the 2TB Goflex Desk HD is $199, but on Amazon is $229. Why? I will the price drop?
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In Best Buy the 2TB is $119.99 -- on Amazon it's $149.99.Amazon is slipping.
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Amazon still hasn't corrected this and it's a gold box price today.Either way I wouldn't buy it after reading the horrific experiences some of the reviewers had with this product on Amazon and CNET
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I bought 4 of these: Seagate 1TB Laptop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Drive Retail Kit (STBD1000100) They were on-sale at the time for $69. You should be able to find something with equivalent stats for around that price.
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I've noticed a lot of 1 tb drives are scarce. People seem to want them in their computers so regular sites like newegg, tiger direct or directron don't have them or the prices seem to have climbed.
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I'd like to add a little additional information to the excellent explanation from Jaygyver. I have both drives, an older WD1002FAEX and a newer WD1003FZEX. When I purchased the WD1002 model it was priced about the same as the newer model is today. I believe the current price disparity is due to two factors: the differences in suppliers as described by Jaygver, and also a design change. I noticed that my WD1002 was slightly heavier than the WD1003, and after some research discovered that was due to the WD1002 having two magnetic platters while the WD1003 was a newer single platter design. Evidently the WD engineers were able to simplify and hopefully improve the design. For me, both drives perform excellently and I'm equally pleased with both. However, I have seen discussions on certain tech forums in which intense gaming purists believe the older two platter design is better, and that WD changed the design simply to cut manufacturing costs. Thus the high prices for the WD1002 is due to it's scarcity (since it's now discontinued) and their belief that it's slightly better in both performance and ruggedness. As I said above, however, both perform equally well for me, and they're both Western Digital Black Series with 5 year warranties, so it's a no brainer to go with the best deal price wise.
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I agree. I mean M$ is ALWAYS pulling this crap. Look at the new 250GB HDD for the 360 as an example! Totally over priced! I recommend my method: Purchase the 250GB 2.5" SATA laptop HDD off ebay for the 360 and install it yourself. Its like half the price M$ is charging. I've been connected to Live daily for several months now and have NOT been banned on my 360.
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I'm wondering the same exact thing. I saw another one by AJ Wholesale, but they're charging $599 for the 32GB one...so I'm just waiting when to hear from these guys. I hope it's not too long...I've Googled it and still can't find an answer.
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If you have the Goflex TV firmware flashed to at least 2.20, it can handle up to 3TB via USB. The compatibility is normally provided by the newer product. Most products do allow backwards compatibility but you'll have to check the specs on the new drive.
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I'll be honest, I am a fan boy of Western Digital, and ASUS btw, but they don't make HD's. In the last few years, I've had more Seagate drives fail on me, than Western Digital. That being said, I am also hard on HD's, and being in Oklahoma, my PC runs real warm through half the year. I would def. go with the Blue WDEZEX for my money.
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The red ones are the cheap ones right? Because the cheaper versions are definitely the ones I got. I thought about getting the base model (without the hard drives), but just figured I could upgrade later, as they begin to fail. One at a time hopefully. I love my Synology Disk Station!
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Its strange...I bought this computer at Best Buy - 3 weeks ago (4/14) for $599...its now $749 there and at Amazon.com, the price has always been this high. Thought Amazon would be the less expensive route - guess I was wrong. The computer is great for my needs, though.
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"One of the posters claimed that this would cost 500+ dollars. I would think that the hard drive version could actually be cheaper."I think you should learn how to read. He means that if you want a 80GB+ device in the same size you will have to use flash and flash is expensive.
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Now it's $149, which is around the right price. Hopefully it keeps dropping. I'm wanting to get a 4TB soon.
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There seem to be different versions of the same basic model. Mine came with a 250 gb spinning platter drive. I put a 128 gb ssd in for about 80 bucks. The kit by monster made that super simple and you can reuse the software and cable for other computers. RAM seems to vary as well. I have three of these 1 from work and 2 bought used.
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Agreed, Amazon can shove it. Just bought one off of eBay. Base price was 1889.99 shipped, but I get $151.20 cash back from Windows Live, and hopefully another $56.70 cash back from ebates.com for a total price of $1682.09. Ordered it today around lunchtime, will be delivered tomorrow between 10 and 2. (beat that, Amazon).
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I checked around for prices on Amazon and other places. I have one that I got 6 years ago. Doesn't seem to be available at regular office supply stores. I was a teacher at the time...There is no way I paid that kind of price. It had to have been on sale and well under $100 when I bought it or it wouldn't have been purchased by me. They were not available on Logitech's website except for support. Sorry, It looks to me like scarcity on a good product has driven the price up, but I did find it on ebay for under $300. I know probably not a lot of help. Contact Logitech, maybe they can help.
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I ordered mine on January 20 and still not a peep from Amazon...just visited the 5th avenue store and they had a shelf full of the 500 Gb model (no 1 TB models anywhere though...). Amazon should at least give us some kind of update on when they expect them!
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Well, the hard drive isn't made by Amazon so the manufacturer makes a box that can hold up a beating its self. Amazon adds a sort of insurance and extra extra packing (packing peanuts or more commonly those airpacks along with double boxing).