New 750 and 1 Terabyte drives

I'm about to grab myself either a new 750 gig, or possibly the moersa more expensive (relatively speaking) 1 terabyte drives.

Currently the average price for a 500 gig drive = $109 - or around R700
(http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3206259&Sku=TSD-500AS4)
the 750 gigs = $200-ish, or around R1400.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3203230&Sku=TSD-750AAKS
and the terabyte drives = around $300 or R1900 ish
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3333210&CatId=2459

The US stores can't give away the 500 gigs and lower drives at the moment, as the 750's and higher move in, so prices are dropping all over the place. As I work on two laptops with two external HD enclosures, I figure another giant HD to possibly replace one of the two I have, is the way to go, to keep stashing all the goodies..

Given the historical rip off of local IT/PC companies in SA - now might be a good time for forumites to get any folks visiting the US, to grab them a hard drive..

look at places like new egg:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=14&name=Internal-Hard-Drives

LoneGunman said:

I'm about to grab myself either a new 750 gig, or possibly the moersa more expensive (relatively speaking) 1 terabyte drives.

Currently the average price for a 500 gig drive = $109 - or around R700
(http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3206259&Sku=TSD-500AS4)
the 750 gigs = $200-ish, or around R1400.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3203230&Sku=TSD-750AAKS
and the terabyte drives = around $300 or R1900 ish
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3333210&CatId=2459

The US stores can't give away the 500 gigs and lower drives at the moment, as the 750's and higher move in, so prices are dropping all over the place. As I work on two laptops with two external HD enclosures, I figure another giant HD to possibly replace one of the two I have, is the way to go, to keep stashing all the goodies..

Given the historical rip off of local IT/PC companies in SA - now might be a good time for forumites to get any folks visiting the US, to grab them a hard drive..

look at places like new egg:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=14&name=Internal-Hard-Drives

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Only as a backup of a backup. Its not cool to go above 500 or even 300 atm because if you crash the thing, you loose a lot of data. I much prefer to have my stuff spread out over 3-4 300GBs than 1 TB.
As for HD enclosures, who needs them?
I got a OKION SATA/IDE to USB2 adapter, it has its own power supply and can connect two disks (1 SATA and one IDE) at the same time. Great for backing up your stuff or archiving it.

Yeah but you do reach the point where you have to make that decision to say 'fuggit' as regards worrying about crashes.

Technically the important stuff (my work) is maybe 600 megs, and that lives in various places - online, and on various kinds of drives (I have a couple of Lacie 8 gigs).
For me I'm into portability - I have 2 laptops, and can carry them and terabytes of data in one little backpack, and go anywhere with everything.

Much saner than being gradually surrounded by lots of little drives and turning ones life into becoming a librarian looking after 'stuff' thats been stored.

Also got a Lacie Silverscreen 80 gig multimedia drive, which fits into my pocket, and which can plug into any TV or vid projector, to show movies or TV things.. why waste time and energy burning disks in order to enjoy stuff.

That said, am probably gonna buy an Mvix next ( http://mvixusa.com/product.php?product=mx760 ) multimedia enclosure, so that I can reduce things even more, and combine things further - have a terabyte HD (in a little enclosure thats the size of a book) thats a multimedia player of anything I want, either direct via cable, or via wireless..

The object of the game is to secure your work (whatever that is) and then do ones best to store 'other' stuff in as simple a way as possible - without ending up living surrounded by possessions like a digital magpie.
The current terabyte drives are very stable now, and they'll do until the next wave of HD's come - I've heard that manufacturers are aiming for a 4 terabyte drive by 2009.