When can I expect 1-2TB hard drives to go down in price?

Question

Where's the cheapest place to get em?

Yes, I mean external.

Are you saying that this 2TB drive has smaller drives in it?
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351

Answer 1

Flagship products do not drop much till they are kicked from the flagship spot so expect a slow drop in price with a slightly larger drop when the new unit with more storage get bigger, that drop will be determined by increase in storgage the next generation holds

Answer 2

They don't exist. The largest is 750 GB.

The 1 GB drives you think you see are external and actually use RAID 0 to combine two physical 500 GB drives into 1 TB. These are actually dangerous because if either of the two drives fail, you lose EVERYTHING on both drives.

Seagate doesn't make 1TB drives - here's a list of everything they do make - CLEARLY there is NO 1 TB drive:
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/index/1,1083,capacity,00.html?interface=&capacity=150%2E1%5F2000&system=

And if you go to Hitachi's site, you'lll see there are no drives larger than 500 GB. So I would say shahjigu has no idea what he's talking about. Unless he can provide evidence to support his claim.

UPDATE:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying - that device uses FOUR (4) 500 GB hard drives in a RAID 0 config - it talks about RAID 0 all over the place though it never mentions the drive count - the ONLY way to use RAID 0 IS with multiple drives and the only way using multiple drives today to reach 2 TB is to use 4 drives. This is even worse for reliability - if ANY SINGLE DRIVE of the four drives used fails, you lose ALL YOUR DAY ON ALL THE DRIVES. If you can find one of these with a RAID 5 that would be fine - or a RAID 10 or RAID 0+1, that would be fine... these types of RAID provide redundancy so if one disk fails you don't lose everything. If you buy one, open it up and you'll find 4 drives inside.

Answer 3

its technology driven market,

the 1 or 2 tb hard disks are available from Seagate & Hitachi.

when ever the market for such a big capacity hard disk will increase, more players will offer the drives, so obviously the prices will go down.

the expected slash in price is in February 2007, at the time of financial year closing of 2006-07.

Answer 4

Should be cheaper in a matter of weeks. I paid $179 for a 1.2 Gb in 1995. In 1992 1 Gb was $2300. In Feb 2005 I paid $108 for a 160 Gb drive.
Check with Tigerdirect.com for their prices.
Whenever you buy it, about 2 weeks later it will drop $150 in price.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Well you can expect to see them drop in price after they are actually released on the market, which hasn't happened yet, the biggest out is 750GB. Unless you mean external, which I think they have a 1TB out.

Answer 7

well honestly I dont expect them to go down any time soon. Its a ton of memory. Wait for a year and hop on ebay and look one up or www.newegg.com