Did this coupon
work for you?
work for you?
Sorry, this deal has expired.
Get notified of deals like this in the future.
Add Deal Alert for this Item
Popular
WD Elements 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive Black for $129.99 + FS
$129.99
$149.99
Newegg has WD Elements 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive Black WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN on sale for $129.99 after code.
Code: M48HRMD229
https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-e...22-234-349
Code: M48HRMD229
https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-e...22-234-349
in
External Hard Drives
(9)
If you purchase something through a post on our site, Slickdeals may get a small share of the sale.
Check Out Similar Computers Deals
View AllFrontpage
$1023
+ Free Shipping
32
46
Frontpage
Frontpage
$110
+ Free Shipping
50
103
31 Comments
Your comment cannot be blank.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
im still kinda bumbed though, i thought by 2020 we would have 100TB for $100
Yes, I heard that it's very easy to schuck
What's typically inside?
Of course, Grasshopper
Sadly, long gone are the 256mb Red good 'ol days.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
We're still in times of Covid (and it may go longer than we'd like worldwide) and it does affect production lines. Usually drives the price up some.
These are not HGST Helium drives anymore. Usually stabilizes or drives the price a little lower.
Technology has advanced to the point that manufacturing these have a lower and lower failure rate and may require fewer platters and less hardware. Usually drives the price down a little lower.
A ton of people get stimulus checks which is like the governments of the world just printing money making currency worth... less - because they're printing/adding more currency thatn they're removing. Tends to drive the price up some.
So, while I'll never consider myself an expert but have a general understanding of economics, this is basically what these will cost for a while. Maybe a little better deal if nothing else rotten happens to the world around Black Friday... or maybe we all get cost of living raises and these prices are less of a problem.
We're still in times of Covid (and it may go longer than we'd like worldwide) and it does affect production lines. Usually drives the price up some.
These are not HGST Helium drives anymore. Usually stabilizes or drives the price a little lower.
Technology has advanced to the point that manufacturing these have a lower and lower failure rate and may require fewer platters and less hardware. Usually drives the price down a little lower.
A ton of people get stimulus checks which is like the governments of the world just printing money making currency worth... less - because they're printing/adding more currency thatn they're removing. Tends to drive the price up some.
So, while I'll never consider myself an expert but have a general understanding of economics, this is basically what these will cost for a while. Maybe a little better deal if nothing else rotten happens to the world around Black Friday... or maybe we all get cost of living raises and these prices are less of a problem.
You can
1. raise prices
2. cut costs
3. focus on strengths at the expense of sales points you can't compete on anymore
4. shift to markets where clientele aren't as price sensitive and margins are fatter.
1 is why prices have stopped dropping.
2 is why they tried to sneak SMR in.
3 is another reason why SMR is coming - HD's can't compete on performance vs SSD's, so SMR's performance-for-capacity tradeoff makes more sense
4 means a greater focus on enterprise/datacenter.
For platter drives, 1 and 2 are what we're seeing the most, 3 is likely.
4 might be happening, I don't know. That one is much more visible in digital cameras - smartphones have wiped out the consumer section, so Canon, Nikon, Panasonic etc. are moving upmarket, where high-budget professionals and amateurs with $ still like to spend $$$$.