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> $170? That's a damned expensive 1TB HDD.

Google's price includes the electricity to run the disk, any enclosures, network connectivity, whatever CPU is needed to front end it, dealing with any warranty & maintenance issues, backups and backup media and who knows how many other items in addition to the bare metal.

If you want to do an apples to apples price comparison then some of those factors should also be factored in to the NewEgg price!



Not to mention redundancy - Google certainly do not store your docs on one hard drive.




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