Newegg has an autopricing algorithm that ramps the price up into the stratosphere if a lot of people are buying something. It takes a while for the price to settle back down to 'reasonable'.
Either find it elsewhere, or wait it out... Amazon has had good prices on hard drives recently. The magnetic kind; I haven't been paying attention to SSDs.
They are pretty surprisingly hard to get. At the beginning of the summer I tried to buy, I think, 20 drives, to upgrade all the developers to SSDs and I remember being surprised that I cleared out Amazon AND NewEgg completely to get the drives I needed.
Developers often do more than simply compile code. For example if I could cut the start up time of the app I'm developing in half that would be really quite nice indeed, even if compile times stay the same.
I don't know about that, it depends on the build tree I guess. Our IDE build tree (which includes compiler, RTL and lots of other stuff) writes about 600M of intermediate files, 1G of executables / debugger symbol files / map files etc., and reads probably several G worth of source. A rebuild (clean and build) currently runs in about 13 minutes on my 10K drive, but I'm fairly sure it could be cut down with faster I/O.
Actually Spolsky had already found that to be true for their compile times back in March. But decided the benefit was still worth it for his developers.
See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html
After the whole bad firmware thing, the G2s are even worse. Amazon doesn't have them in stock at all, they are $300 over MSRP at Newegg, and I haven't seen them for less than about 150% MSRP anywhere.
Either find it elsewhere, or wait it out... Amazon has had good prices on hard drives recently. The magnetic kind; I haven't been paying attention to SSDs.