I remember when we were discussing a while back the affordability of 500GB USB drives. You can now bet 1 terabyte (1000GB) USB drives for under £100 - even from high street outlets (online mail order vendors have had sub-£100 drives for a while now). Staples is doing an Iomega 1TB desktop drive for £99 - I think it's down to the introduction of single HD product, instead of units with two 500MB drives. Comet, Argos and Currys are still expensive, by comparison.
Ian
Patrick
19-08-08, 07:59 PM
I remember when we were discussing a while back the affordability of 500GB USB drives. You can now bet 1 terabyte (1000GB) USB drives for under £100 - even from high street outlets (online mail order vendors have had sub-£100 drives for a while now). Staples is doing an Iomega 1TB desktop drive for £99 - I think it's down to the introduction of single HD product, instead of units with two 500MB drives. Comet, Argos and Currys are still expensive, by comparison.
Ian
Yes prices continue to drop, not a good time for me having in the past few days put on ebay a 160gig USB/eSats hardrive (ebay No 180277517333), a 200gig USB/eSata (ebay No 180277520418245 and a 300gig USB/eSata (ebay No 180277529) and will be listing tonight a Iomega 250gig USB.
The sales are the result of me buying a 2TB Buffalo hardrive server using RAID 5 for all my future backups.
Patrick