640gb red drive

[Stephen Lovett]

Meryrm,

This isn't likely to happen, as the components (the 2.5" drives) are the same size and weight.

I like your thinking though.

Steve

[Martin Weiss]

I would buy a used - but fully working - 320gig RED drive for $450.

If there is another one like me, we could buy it for $900 and you could get yourself a new 640gig drive?

(BTW, in the RED store, it still says 320gig http://www.red.com/store/501001 )

[Dane Brehm]

Perfect! I'm sure Producers will soon try and give me a line like

"Don't you only need 1 drive now? We can roll for 4hrs right?"

I hope the FW800 ports have a lower failure rates to:)

Thanks for the upgrade guys!

[CJ Roy]

Are these 5400 or 7200 rpm drives inside? Just curious.

[Michael McLaughlin]

A lower priced hard drive would be great for those of us that are having a bit of a problem in this economy.

My lack of funds is not RED's problem by any stretch... it just would allow me to strech the dollars I have right now.

A price of 425 sounds perfect, 500 hits the max of what I can do right now. And to be honest that extra 100 for the cable probably puts it over what I can do.

I hope I am not being unreasonable proposing such things.

More of just giving some inside calculations of what is going on in my head right now, and proabably some others.

[JanneJansson]

The exchange rate from $ to my currency (skr) have also made a huge impact in my spending. Everything is almost TWICE the price as last summer. So far this year we have just invested 1% in new gear from US, as from last year. All other stuff is home grown for now.

..so every little price/performance improvement is greatly appreciated :)

[Andrew Wilding]

Wow. You guys are awesome. Im so glad I haven't received my drive yet!

Red never ceases to amaze me.

[Radim Schreiber]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! I'll need a dual battery setup.

[Stephen Lovett]

Hi folks,

As a heads up, the price difference between the two drive sizes is almost a rounding error, given the price of the Red-Drive.

for example, the branny new 500GB 7200 rpm drives from Seagate (arguably the most expensive / fastest non SSD Drive available in a 2.5" form factor today) is about $125.00 US.

http://www.centralcomputers.com/ccp7...isea95002s.htm

The same model with 320GB capacity is about $110.00 US

http://www.centralcomputers.com/comm...isea93203s.htm

Looking for about a $500.00 discount based on a less than $30.00 difference in parts costs seems pretty unreasonable to me.

(The delta is going to be smaller on both lower capacity drives, and in volume purchase, like those used in the Red-Drives)

I agree that digital storage is the area where Red's value proposition isn't as strong as it is in the vast majority of the product line.

(But here I think the larger gap exists on RedRam as Red CP units, as prices for SSD, SxS cards, and other CF media have plummeted)

Given the value proposition of the rest of the products, you won't hear me bitchin however.

Thus I find myself back at "Thanks Red team",

Steve

[Curran Giddens]

Given the value proposition of the rest of the products, you won't hear me bitchin however.

Thus I find myself back at "Thanks Red team"

Yeah. They gotta make $$ somewhere.

Thanks Red team!