lower capacity HDs

[slinky]

so.. can anyone explain to me why HDs around the 20GB range are so expensive compared to HDs from 60-80GB? they seem to have identical seek times and such...

[Urban_Squrill]

They are older probly a few years older. Cost more to beging with so never sold. So they dont bring down the price so much as to loose money. Or at least i think

[jmebonner]

I've always looked at it as the same reason baby tennis shoes cost almost as much as the adult sizes. The labor amount is the same, the electronics are virtually identical, and the size just isn't that much of a cost factor...unless of course you're talking 100 + gigs.
I could be way off base on that thought though!

[Telexen]

Because it wasn't as cheap to make them...the prices on them get to a level where the manufacturer or vender are losing so much money they just don't lower the prices anymore...so you get 20gb drives costing just as much, if not more than some 40gb drives.

It's RIDICULOUS how much small 2-6gb drives cost..even used.

It's RIDICULOUS how much small 2-6gb drives cost..even used.

thats no joke man I saw some in a shop the other day and they were selling them for like anywhere from 10-30 dollars. I've been wantind to pick up some smaller drives for my dc boxes but heck I can't afford to
I've never really figured this stuff out either....I mean you can get 120gig drives after mir for less than 40 gig drives tech priices just don't make sense to me sometimes.

[Telexen]

I think I'm a little more conservative with my small drives than my 20+gb drives

[slinky]

same goes here.. i notice the trash tends to pile up on my 100GB drives

Originally posted by Telexen
I think I'm a little more conservative with my small drives than my 20+gb drives

[meese]

There are a lot of people (believe it or not) still running older DOS and windows systems. These older systems can't recognize drives bigger than 8.2GB. An thats with the latest BIOS. These systems are lucky they are W2K compliant. None the less the need for smaller hard drive is there. My company manufactures systems based on the DOS OS. I just bought 10 Maxtor 4.3 GB drives for $35 each. These are refurbished drives of course. (Maxtor discontinued that line like a hundred years ago). I don't have a problem with the cost. You can't really compare the size to dollar amount. When you think about it, look at your motherboard. How much do you think it would cost to design a circuit board like that? Let alone manufacture it? If I layed out that board I would sell it for over $1000 easy. The price the consumer pays for pc stuff is outrageously low. Yet people still complain. I would consider ourselves lucky the prices are the way they are.

[slinky]

this is the 20GB range we're talkin bout...
*20GB ~$52
*60GB ~$68
see somethin wrong?

[ussenterprise]

I'm a firm believer in "You get what you pay for"
That said: Look at the 20GB drive for $52 vs the 60GB for $68.

The 20GB is 2.6 dollars per GB. the 60GB drive is 1.13 dollars per GB. I would say, based on this, the 20GB drive is twice as stable as the 60GB drive.

Just my opinion.

I'd take a Mclaren F1 over a Lamborghini ANY day...