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Western Digital Elements 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive

Western Digital Elements 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive for $169.99 + free shipping

WD quality inside and out.
Designed with the same commitment to quality that made WD external drives the number one selling drives in the world.
Preformatted for PCs.
Designed for use with Windows-based computers. Can be easily reformatted for use with Macs.
Plug-and-play simplicity.
Plug-and-play simplicity.
Just connect the power and plug it into a USB port to instantly add more storage to your computer.

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by royturro
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Wow! Bad time to buy a hard drive. I got this for a hunnert before the Thailand floods.

whataworld
4 months ago

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@whataworld: 70% increase isn't bad. The HD's I USED to buy are now 300% more expensive than before the flooding.. Can we say price gauging?

mschauber
4 months ago

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@mschauber: a 0% increase alone over prices from 4 months ago is bad, let alone 70%. I'm expecting a -5% increase over that time period.

I'm holding off 'til SSDs beat the prices of HDDs back down again.

conhopper
4 months ago

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@conhopper: I wouldn't count on that to happen anytime soon. Seagate & WD don't expect to be back up to full capacity until 2013. Why would they? They are making money hand over fist now.

mschauber
4 months ago

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Yeah, I'd like SSD's to beat the prices of HDD's down too. Not gonna happen. I am out of touch with the world and have a ton of storage but never got a huge drive when they were supercheap. Totally kicking myself in the ass for it now. Cos my 1tb external had 2mb left on it yesterday. So, shamefully, I deleted 40gb of South Park.
But, no kidding, I didn't even know about the flooding in Thailand until I wanted to buy a new drive. Now THAT is the American way. Don't know (profanity) about what's going on in the world until the moment it effects you.

suzystabalot
4 months ago

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I will never buy another USB 2.0 device. Transferring GBs over usb 2.0 is so maddeningly slow... now that I have tasted USB 3.0 I cannot go back...

kevinoman0221
4 months ago

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@mschauber: If that were true, they'd all be selling fewer at higher prices but we don't see that. We don't see it because of competition and that they can make more money selling more at smaller margins than fewer at higher margins.

Plus, who is it that's increased the prices - the manufacturers or the retailers?

first2summit
4 months ago

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You could always buy one of these and take off the shell. It's just a regular SATA drive in there.

knarf009
4 months ago

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@knarf009: dude, I used to do that ALL THE TIME back before there was even such a thing as a terabyte. I also knew people who bought them with cash at a store, took them apart, put an old melted 40gb HDD in its place, put it all back together, then brought it back and got their money. Get caught, you're (profanity) ... but if you don't, free hard drive.

suzystabalot
4 months ago

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@mschauber: I wouldn't be throwing around terms like "price gouging" at this time. Hard drive production has been hit severely by the flooding and now it is a matter of supply vs demand. That, coupled with the fact that most computer manufacturers have pricing agreements with the hard drive manufacturers, the consumer price of hard drives has gone up.

dsnyder1123
3 months ago

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@dsnyder1123: And if we lived in a pure capitalist society your same argument would hold water during natural disasters when gas stations price gouge, when stores cell a $3 loaf of bread for $25, or when 7/11 raised their price for water & ice during Irene. Luckily we live in a country with a mixed economy and thus price gauging is real and supply & demand is not an excuse for greed.

mschauber
3 months ago

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