[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Tue Feb 22 19:40:47 UTC 2011


On 02/22/2011 11:33 AM, Bobby Gill wrote:
> Looking at hard drives on Newegg (I'm Canadian):
>
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317
> ^^ This is a WD Green 1TB/32mb cache for $74.99
>
> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514
> ^^ This is a WD Green 2TB/64MB cache for $84.99
>
> Admittedly I'm fairly out of the loop with hardware news and the market, but
> is this "just the way it is" for the time or is there something else going
> on? Is the 2TB flawed? 4/5 eggs with 830 reviews, same rating as the 1TB.
>
> Thanks
> Bobby
>
The major difference between drives of different capacities these days is the density of the bits on the disk. If you took the
two drives apart, they would likely look identical inside, At most there might be an extra platter, a relatively small
difference in the overall cost of the drive.

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