You are looking at the leading edge of the drive sizes. You get to pay a premium for today's biggest units.
Scale back to 1TB and you see everything is still as it was.
Bob
"I've been shopping for a bunch of drives to expand our RAID and had been awaiting convergence of prices with predictions ofKryder's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryder's_law#Kryder.27s_Law
that says densities will double every year.
In the past has been accompanied by price per MB being halved annually.
However, prices seem to be holding pretty steady lately.
Since the last time I bought 2TB Enterprise Class SATAdrives, about a year ago, the price has gone down less than 30%. (e.g.: $280 last year to $200 now)
Should I expect rapid price drops in the near future or is there some good reason why storage prices should be remaining (relatively) high for a while?"

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