It's a great time to be alive if you are a storage junkie. Prices on high capacity hard drives, continue to fall. This allows for affordable multi-terabyte systems for use in the home. NewEgg has lowered it's prices on the following Western Digital SATA drives (perfect for HP MediaSmart Server EX470 or DIY Home Servers):
| Size | Price | Was | Dollars/GB |
| 500 GB | $99 | $104 | $0.1980 |
| 750 GB | $149 | $159 | $0.1987 |
| 1 TB | $234 | $239 | $0.2340 |
Based on this, the "sweet spot" seems to be the 750 GB drive. It's cost/GB is basically the same as the 500 GB (at just under 20 cents), but you of course get more GBs per package where physical expandability is finite. In fact, I orders 2 of the 750 GB drives myself today. You will pay a premium for the 1TB drive, but at a little over 23 cents/GB it is still a good value.
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Unless the drives are actually taking a beating (like they would in a data center), these drives will hold up just fine.
They keep dropping...
I just ordered a Samsung 750Gb from NewEgg for $129.99 (that's just $0.173/Gb)
They were even lower last weekend for the 750GB WD green drives. I ordered five of them for $129 each. To put four in a port multiplier for my EX470. I've already upgraded the memory with your instructions. Now I need to upgrade the processor since you posted the instructions.
Thanks. Without those instructions I would have never done the upgrade.
MicroCenter has WD green drives at 1TB for $199, $100 off original. less than .194/GB
Best Buy has Seagate 1 TB drives for $189 each this week. I picked up 3 of them and the EX475. I promptly returned it and picked up the EX470 when I realized they were basically charging me $150 to $200 for a 500 GB hard drive!
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