A few hours ago, I went to eBay to purchase two Western Digital 6TB Red Pro drives, and noticed that the cheapest were the Red NAS drives offered by Best Buy(!) at about 25% below the competition; indeed, the price per TB was even lower for the 8TB drives (at $307.99 each).
So I looked at Amazon and Newegg (prices still above $400) and bought two 8TB drives from Best Buy. I looked again, and the prices on Amazon, Newegg, and BHPhoto for the WD8001FFWX drives have all dropped to $306.29 . With notes about "sale ending in X hours" (Sunday night Mar 25). If a price war has indeed begun, it could get interesting. Or, I find out Monday that the drives are on deep discount because they catch fire and emit poisonous gas. Or come pre-loaded with security exploits on the boot tracks. Buyer be 'wared. Keith P.S. My first "big" hard drive purchase was a 600MB Seagate for $2000. The new ones are 80,000 times cheaper per byte. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
