Philips SPD5130 external hard drive hits 1TB
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 6th 2007 12:23PM
posted Jun 6th 2007 12:23PM
Philips certainly isn't the first company to shove 1TB of storage into some form of external enclosure, but the recently-unveiled SPD5130 does manage to strip the NAS niceties and add an eSATA interface all the while. Of course, users can still plug this one in via USB 2.0, and everyone should appreciate the 32MB included buffer for "enhanced transfer stability." Externally, the 1TB drive is wrapped in a thick aluminum shell that should protect it from minor battles, touts a one-click backup button, and it even includes an intelligent power management feature that powers it up and down with the PC it is attached to. Reportedly, the SPD5130 should be available to customers in Europe and the US pretty soon, and while we haven't seen anything official just yet, we're hearing that it'll run €449 across the pond and $499 here on American soil.[Via Pocket-Lint]
Europe is getting screwed.... again...
Uh.. how?
Because, 449 Euros = 606.5092 U.S. dollars (courtesy of Google).
So, in Europe, you're paying a good bit more for your bits...
Over the weekend I saw a Hitachi 1TB external HDD at Bestbuy for a little less though I haven't been able to find the product on Bestbuy or Hitachi website.
lol, that is completely normal then.
The dollar is weak compared to the euro right now.
Yes, but prices in the EU include VAT (sales tax) and as I understand prices in the US don't ... so subtract around 20% from the euro price and you get €359, which according to the goggle conversion is $485 ... sounds like we're getting a good deal
I think you're missing the point. solarcanine is pointing out that Europe is paying way more, not that the dollar is weak compared to the euro. Thanks to google's trust conversion tool once again, $499 converts over to 369 euros. So LiQuiD_FuSioN, all of those in Europe are getting screwed... God bless America!
Europe is paying more, yes; if you're on American soil, of course.
Europeans get paid in Euro, compubasic. I don't think buying this HD will be a problem for anyone unless they're poor.
We have different rates throughout the world you know, lol.
I should know this because I used to live in Germany as an American and I hardly ever went shopping on their economy for big value items. So, I think it is YOU and a few others who are missing the point completely here.
Geez, no reason to gloat, that's a little unnecessary. Just post your conversion information and be done with it. Myself, I think I'll collect my spare change till I can afford one of these. Sounds shiny.
What's happend to Firewire? How many computers have eSATA ports??