You might be seeing a premium price for discontinued hardware. The current lineup of WD Green 2TB drives are ~$100. There is no way for me to know if these are lower quality than the previous model or not.
Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi)
by Samuel_Michon on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:02PM
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Good point. I'm curious as to which HDD models Apple uses nowadays for their Time Capsule, that would allow for a better comparison. I couldn't find that information anywhere.
By the way, my first generation Time Capsule has a 500GB Seagate Barracuda ES, which used to retail for over $300.
Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi)
by jujjine on Friday November 30, 2012 @03:06PM
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At the introduction of the Time Capsule, it retailed for less than 100€.
Re:Time Capsule for $25 (Using Raspbery Pi)
by CrazedGeek on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:36PM
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That's how much the hard drive is now. That teardown was done before the Thailand floods, which I'd imagine are related to the current Amazon price. [1] The WD20EARS was only $100 well before that Time Capsule was released. [2]
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/28/us-thai-floods-dri...
[2] From my Amazon order history: http://i.imgur.com/lYYlR.png
That drive is listed as $169 MSRP at Amazon. [1]
[0] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/25/updated-time-capsule-open...
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Desktop-WD20EAR...