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Probably not selling many 360/750 drives :)

R 411 Seagate, 160Gb, 7200rpm, 8mb cache, NCQ, SATA-300
R 474 Seagate, 320Gb, 7200rpm, 16mb cache, NCQ, SATA-300
R 456 Seagate Barracuda*500GB Hard Drive SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache
R 747 SEAGATE* Barracuda*1000GB Hard Drive (SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache)
R 1 299 Seagate, 750Gb, 7200rpm, 16mb cache, NCQ, SATA300
R 1 431 SEAGATE Barracuda*1500GB*Hard Drive (SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache)
R 2 364 SEAGATE Barracuda* 2TB* Serial ATA Hard Drive (SATA 3.0Gb/s, 5900rpm, 32MB Cache) NEW
 
320Gb costs more than 500Gb
750Gb costs more than 1000Gb

(where are the prices from, i'll remember to double check they're not overcharging for old stock :)
 
Just my eyes or the more expensive ones in that list have NCQ listed and the cheapies don't? Do you get SATA drives these days that don't have NCQ.
 
Drives that have NCQ cost more than drives that don't have it AFAIK. Same with raptors. How come a 74gb Raptor costs more than a 250GB Barracuda?
 
Because Raptors run 10,000rpm and are built for speed (minimum small diameter platter count, etc).
 
Yes, this I realised as the mouse button came up from hitting "Post Quick Reply".
 
And there is also the "Couldn't be bothered" invisible button. I clicked that several times.
 
Prices from Axis. All the drives are exactly the same, only the size differs. Probably bought the disks when the $/R was high. Poor bastards....
 
Last I checked with them they were just all over the place. Haven't been back that way in a couple of months anyway.
 
I remember going to Northgate to buy a 1TB Seagate and checked IC and BT Games. IC was the cheaper by far - but had no stock.

I queried BT Games high price and they said it was R/$ and weren't prepared to drop.

The exchange has just got better and if they are still not prepared to drop, they're going to be sitting with the drive forever :/

Companies who have been burnt with exchange should just take the knock
 
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