WHY are external 3TB drives are $129, internal $189? - GoFuckYourself.com

gleem · 07-17-2011, 11:11 AM

Whyt he fuck would an external 3TB drive cost only $129 at a shit hole retail place like Bestbuy, but I can't find a decent internal 3TB drive online for less than $180?? only cheap internal 3tb are that "green" bullshit drives that are slow as ballz.

dyna mo · 07-17-2011, 11:12 AM

i am not liking the HUGE drives, mine seem to want to take 5-8 seconds to get going after i click on one, even the one with lots o space left on it

fitzmulti · 07-17-2011, 11:27 AM

Probably, like most other products...manufacturing MORE of them drives costs down...

TidalWave · 07-17-2011, 11:52 AM

or the external drive is of shittier quality

GatorB · 07-17-2011, 12:42 PM

Hey be glad you can get 3 TB for under $200 now-a-days

dc0ded · 07-17-2011, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by GatorB

Hey be glad you can get 3 TB for under $200 now-a-days

Agree....

Vendzilla · 07-17-2011, 01:59 PM

here's a 2tb , internal for $75
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...u=TSD-2000EARS

and here's a 3tb, internal for $129
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=H450-9008

loreen · 07-17-2011, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by gleem

only cheap internal 3tb are that "green" bullshit drives that are slow as ballz.

Bought one, had to replace it three times in a year

gleem · 07-17-2011, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Vendzilla

and here's a 3tb, internal for $129
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&sku=H450-9008

it's a 5400 RPM drive, worthless.

Vendzilla · 07-17-2011, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by gleem

it's a 5400 RPM drive, worthless.

Yeah, why I put everything on an external, works great

V_RocKs · 07-17-2011, 04:23 PM

Because the external can be churned out in larger lots than the internal which have to be specifically made in certain sizes (dimensions) and use different connectors.

Klen · 07-17-2011, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GatorB

Hey be glad you can get 3 TB for under $200 now-a-days

Lol same image was used in one informatics magazine on test of 3 tb drives

MrBottomTooth · 07-17-2011, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

i am not liking the HUGE drives, mine seem to want to take 5-8 seconds to get going after i click on one, even the one with lots o space left on it

Was having the same problem, fixed it by preventing the drives from spinning down in the power management settings.

dyna mo · 07-17-2011, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

Was having the same problem, fixed it by preventing the drives from spinning down in the power management settings.

i will give this a try, thanks!

raymor · 07-17-2011, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by gleem

it's a 5400 RPM drive, worthless.

It's also what's inside the external case, hence answering your initial question.

raymor · 07-17-2011, 05:20 PM

Since the external drives are more popular at retail, I often buy them and open them up when I need an internal drive. That leaves me about six external cases laying around for when I need to hook one up externally.

Of the 44 or so internal drives I currently have spinning, maybe six or eight were purchased as external and I took the internal drive out of the USB enclosure.

scubadiver626 · 07-17-2011, 05:29 PM

Don't buy cheap, get hitaci. Unplug the real backup drive when not in use.

PromoterX · 07-17-2011, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by gleem

only cheap internal 3tb are that "green" bullshit drives that are slow as ballz.

There mean't for storage only, if your using it as a main operating system drive, your crazy. Get yourself a 1Gb 10,000 RPM drive for your main drive.

I have a 2TB drive that I use for all my backups, and other than the slight 2-5 second delay when accessing something from those drives, there hasn't been any problems, and quite frankly, the price can't be beat.

barcodes · 07-17-2011, 07:54 PM

Heres a cheap one

2MuchMark · 07-17-2011, 08:09 PM

There's more to hard drives than storage capacity.

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