[Nfbmo] hard drive prices

Bryan Schulz b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 25 15:47:23 UTC 2011


hi,

seagate was affectedte less than western digital and the wd20ears are 4 
times larger than the one you bought.
your seagate device is good, the idea of a dual or quad nas box is 
duplication and it would be extremely rare for multiple drives to develop 
problems at the same time.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
To: <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] hard drive prices


> Bryan,
>   I bought a Seagate FreeAgent portable 500 GB harddrive from  Microcenter
> on November 8th for about $107.  I saw some 1 and 2 TB drives  that looked
> about the same price as 6 months ago but again, that was on the  8th. 
> I've
> not checked them lately.  I guess I'm lucky I bought  one before 
> everything
> escalated.
> Thanks for the info,
> Dan
>
>
> In a message dated 11/24/2011 11:29:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> b.schulz at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> hi,
>
> i  didn't realize how bad the flood in thailand drove up hard drive prices
> until  i looked a few hours ago.
> i bought two wd 2tb ears 32k drives and a patriot  nas box for a guy and
> got him setup with a good way to backup his data and  share files about 
> this
> time last year.
> those drives were $80 from new egg  and now they are $200.
> i read a blog that said the wd plant had four feet  of water from the
> disaster and that plant may never crank out drives again and  it doesn't 
> matter
> if you prefer another brand because the other companies have  jacked up 
> their
> prices about the same amount under the same excuse even if  they didn't
> suffer plant damage.
>
> i have been using just a single drive  in an enclosure connected to a
> patriot gearbox for a few years because i found  out the hard way the 
> second usb
> port is a print server and can't connect a  second drive.
> the patriot valkryie is very easy for a blind user to  configure and 
> access
> the interface and i was wanting to upgrade to the same as  what i setup 
> for
> my friend.
> i have several spare drives but they are only  500mb or 1tb and it looks
> like i will skip buying any drives for a while and  will probably get the 
> dual
> valkryie box on cyber monday.
>
> Bryan  Schulz
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