Oh Hey! I need HD space!

$79.99 is a great price on a 1.5 TB drive. I have a new little project that could have helped you to find the best bang for your buck, although you didn’t do bad on your own. It’s still in development, and needs to be re-themed to look a bit more professional, but you can check it out here:

http://gb4less.com/

It compares prices for different storage products on Newegg: internal/external hard drives, SSD, USB flash drives, flash memory (SD, CompactFlash, etc.), and desktop memory. On the front page, for each product type, you’ll see the best price per GB across all products that had at least a 4 out of 5 rating and 30 ratings.

You could have actually bought an external 2TB drive for $124.98, or $0.06249 per gig ($0.142 per gig cheaper than your internal+enclosure combo). Granted, it doesn’t look as cool.

In net, the 2TB external drive is $10 more, but if you normalize it to the same capacity as your setup, it’s actually $21 cheaper based on price per GB. Next time you’re in the market for some new storage or memory, be sure to check out gb4less.

If the site ever takes off, I’ll likely incorporate other vendors in addition to Newegg. Take a look and let me know what you think, and feel free to share any ideas you have to improve it. Just ignore the look and feel, I’m using the default Yii (a great PHP framework) theme.