Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I... I don't $600 is an "anyone" buy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I just upgraded my pc and added a RAID array. A 4 tb drive is still like $80-150, so $600 for 30tb seems kinda reasonable. It's outside of my budget, but I'm a cheap bastard.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    That's a pretty good price, too. If you look closely, it's discounted from MSRP. The MSRP is roughly in line with the price per tb.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That makes the discs you bought on the high end too though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I could have gotten a marginally better price per tb with bigger drives, but I didn't need that much storage. The drive you linked is $419 at my local Microcenter.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When was that released? This 30TB version is hot off the press. I'm not surprised that it costs 600$. The 20TB version you linked is 16.4$/TB on a promotion, the 30TB one is 20$/TB. Without the promotion the 20TB version would be 430$ making it 21$/TB.

    Give it time (a year or less) and it'll be even cheaper.

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