Price Guide, November 2005: Storage
by Haider Farhan on November 19, 2005 7:36 AM EST- Posted in
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Again, nothing too noteworthy with these prices either. But we would like to remind you to be sure to pick up a drive with at least 8MB's of cache rather than one with only 2MB's of cache. We're positive that you will notice a larger boost in performance with any model with over 2MB of cache.
Your best bet is to go with the 250GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 with 16MB of cache [RTPE: 6L250R0] which is at a fair price of just under $100.00; still this is not the lowest price we've seen this drive at, but something you should consider.
The new Maxtor DiamondMax 16 and the Samsung SpinPoint P drives have yet to hit retail stores. At the moment, they're still on pre-order only.
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rrcn - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - link
Updated. ;-)AtaStrumf - Saturday, November 19, 2005 - link
I guess this is it. HDD prices have been very stable for quite some time now and it doesn't look like this is going to change anytime soon. Too bad :-( because there's always the need for more storage. I've been hoping to get a 300 GB drive for a while now, but the prices refuse to drop to current 250 GB levels which is as high as I'm willing to go. 250 GB is just not enough of an improvement over my 200 GB drive. I suppose I'll give it another 6 months then.