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ArcAirbender:
Maybe I'm confused, but here are some hard-drives I found on newegg that have a lower price than those that you stated:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148336 < Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive (Bare drive) - OEM $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148252 < Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9100821AS 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM $59.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148249 < Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9160823AS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive - OEM $79.99
And these are retail prices, can you imagine mass production!?
Oh, est, by "wtf are they thinking" I meant the "give away the razors, so you can sell the blades" philosophy, where MS could make netflix and other service providers that use hard drive space to finance (hint, subsidize) the hard drives so those companies have something to store their products in. No hard drive, no sale.
I really should elaborate my comments more often, is not like you live inside my head.
On the other hand I'm trying hard not to make entire novels out of my posts.
Cheers.
est:
Yeah, that would be a good model I think, but I also think they didn't have that kind of thing in mind from the get-go with this iteration of the xbox. Depending on how well the 360 goes as a media delivery platform the next generation will probably get larger drives that you can swap out and such. But then again from another perspective if they see that as a service consumers want then maybe they will take the stance that a hdd will be an in-demand product that people will be willing to pay for? Not sure.
The PS3's hdd can be just pulled out and replaced, and I am pretty sure Sony will stay with that idea into the next gen, so in order to be competitive you'd think the 360 or its successor would have to include a similar kind of functionality. Well, I'd hope for that, anyway.
Dimmukane:
Huh...I just looked under Hard Drives->Laptop Hard Drives and then only looked at the 60s and 120s. Looking at all of the 7200rpm ones, this isn't making any sense. The 60gb is more than the 160gb by 30 dollars. The 120gb is more than the 320gb by about 80...
I stand corrected, I guess. Unless those models shown are the only laptop drives with that amount of space and Microsoft can't find any other provider, which I highly doubt.
ArcAirbender:
I'm gonna go with the highly technical explanation that est provided a few minutes ago.
Fkn money mongers.
PizzaSHARK:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 20 Nov 2008, 20:17 ---Huh...I just looked under Hard Drives->Laptop Hard Drives and then only looked at the 60s and 120s. Looking at all of the 7200rpm ones, this isn't making any sense. The 60gb is more than the 160gb by 30 dollars. The 120gb is more than the 320gb by about 80...
I stand corrected, I guess. Unless those models shown are the only laptop drives with that amount of space and Microsoft can't find any other provider, which I highly doubt.
--- End quote ---
Capacity is only one of the things that determine the price of a drive, and in general, storage is cheap. You also need to consider seek time, latency, and especially cache size; for example, a 120GB Seagate drive with an 8MB cache is actually about $20 cheaper than an 80GB Toshiba drive with a 16MB cache. External drives (those designed for external use, with a protective case, I mean) also tend to be noticeably pricier than internal ones.
I don't know what the Xbox can and can't make use of, but in general, you want a big cache, low seek time, and a speed of at least 7200rpm. That is, unless the console operates significantly different from your average PC.
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