Tip On Current Hard Drive Purchases

Many of you may or may not know that hard drive prices have skyrocketed...

This is due to Thailand being flooded for days and the facilities shut down that produce hard drives.

This has caused one of two things to happen..

1- store runs out

2- store increases price dramatically.

Check out Newegg prices and see for yourself!

So, how do we get hard drives for cheap prices still?

Well, you will not be able to get the Good deals on internal drives for quite a while (IE - $80 for 2TB, $120 for 3TB), but BestBuy, surprisingly, has and still is maintaining their external HDD prices!

They are currently selling 2TB WD eX drives for $90 and 3TB for $140!

For those, like me, that need a mirrored storage raid, software raid isn't reliable if OS gets damaged.

So, I'll be using the following methods of "mirroring" pairs of drives for reliable storage-

Allway Sync - Free syncing software (to emulate mirroring from 1 drive to another)

Active Hard Drive Monitor - Uses S.M.A.R.T. tech to monitor your hard drives in case there is a problem (benefit of hardware raid)

So, just letting everyone know this as a means to get through these current HDD prices.

Also, if you do not have a USB 3.0 input, Newegg sells a 4port GWC card for around $35, requires internal 4pin power connector.