The price of 2TB hard drives has dropped below 100 USD

After more than a year of launch, the world's highest capacity hard drive (2TB) has fallen sharply and for the first time to below $ 100.

At the time of its launch, the 2TB hard drive line had the lowest price of $ 250, but over the weekend, several dealers of Newegg distributor (USA) offered to sell Seagate LP hard drive products. ST32000542AS for only $ 99.99. However, this is just a medium-sized 2TB standard SATA hard drive, which is 5900 rpm. Some retail distributors have bought and resold this product for $ 105-130 USD. High-performance product line, 7200 rpm, 6 Gbsp still keeps the price from 200-300 USD.

According to market analysts, the selling price of 2TB hard drive line tends to decrease because recent information of 3 TB product line is about to be launched (around the end of this year). Some other experts believe that 2TB hard drive must follow the familiar route of this product line for many years: Starting with the price of over 1,000 USD, down to 500 USD, 200 USD and finally stop at approximately 100 USD.

Source: Gearlog