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SSD prices are going down while mechanical HDD prices have skyrocketed due to a flood and the one HDD maker not to lose any drives in that flood(Seagate) is not able to ship any of those out of the flooded area. $110 for a 500 GB Hard Drive and $190 for a 120 GB Vertex 3.
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wow your right.

 

i noticed the Seagate Hybrid HDD ive had my eye on went from $100 to $160! and i didnt know why

 

taking a look at the HDDs, a 1tb which is normally like $60 is now $160!. the only HDDs under $100 on newegg are like 250gb or less drives!

 

 

hope this thing gets over soon and prices go back down to normal

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Guys if you have a Z68 or better Intel Chip set board that has smart caching capability, you can get SSD speeds without sacrificing disk space. All of your most used programs will be put on the SSD cache. Even a smaller SSD around 64GB is plenty. Your OS + most used programs/games will be running at SSD speed. You don't need to spend $500 on a 300+GB SSD. I have a Z68 board + a 64GB SSD and a 1TB 7200RPM HDD, and not only can you use it as a caching device, but at the same time boost the read/write of your HDD with Intel Smart Response. The SSD boost also works on a raid array. Edited by Beriallord
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