Vertical Search and Hard Drive Prices
posted in Developers, Hardware, Technology |I’ve been posting over on the Launch21 blog about the CouponLooker vertical-search engine that I’ve been doing for Judy’s Book. Interesting stuff- this is one of the more fun projects I’ve done in a while. I suppose I should be embarrassed to admit that I did about zero research into how search is supposed to be done. Still, the results seem pretty good and its fun to share some of the techniques that I’ve developed so far.
On another front I’m interested in tracking the evolution of hard-drive prices. Here are the current top price/performance figures for 3.5″ drives-
400GB = $97 = $.243/GB
500GB = $119 = $.238/GB
750GB = $240 = $.32/GB
1000GB= $413 = $.31/GB
500GB is still the sweet-spot. The 1TB drives aren’t really available yet so the 750GB drives are still priced at the “highest capacity available” premium. I’d expect once the 1TB drives become easily available the 750GB drives should drop quite a bit quickly.