We just noticed that Crucial is now listing and selling Western Digital and Seagate HDDs on their website. Crucial, which is part of Micron is best know for SSDs and PC memory (RAM) is selling the drives as they consider themselves "computer upgrade experts".
You might be wondering why it lists the slower HDDs, Crucial says about this: "While SSDs will likely become standard in future systems because of their dramatic performance improvements and because of rapid investment in the cloud, we realize that right now, many people are still in need of a hard drive’s storage capacity."
It goes on to add: "since the average person today stores more data-intensive content on their systems than perhaps ever before, traditional hard drives are able to provide large amounts of cost-effective storage for all the music, videos, photos, and games you could possibly want. If you have lots of data that you need to store on your system (or are simply looking for a back-up drive), a hard drive from Crucial.com might be exactly what you’re looking for."
The company sells both external and internal models with the 2.5" and 3.5" form factor. It seems the HDDs are competive priced, the listed Seagate Momentus Thin HDD 160 GB SATA-300 is $62.99 while it goes for $64.99 on Newegg.com.
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