Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!

I was starting to think the 2 x 2TB Seagate drives I ordered for £67 each on the Friday were going to get cancelled ...however they shipped today thankfully :)
 
Prices looking to increase by another 30% or more within the next week or so! This is looking to be one of the worst shortages of recent years :(
 
Was thinking about another Samsung F3 1TB. But not at these prices!!! Think my last one a couple of months back (on special offer) was £38 delivered! I'll dig out a couple of older drives sitting in my cupboard and use those until next year.

I do wonder reading this thread and from other forumns, how many people are "panic buying" drives when they don't really need them that urgently!? I suspect there are going to be a few people looking back and thinking "what a **** I've been".

Life.....
 
Its like they pay 700 on a new i5 rig and get an 1TB HDD for OS!

Do they not understand than an SSD is one of the best Upgrades for a PC!!!!!

Pay 60 quid less on the components combined and get an SSD!
 
Well, I've just received a delivery email from the online shop to say the 4 F3s I bought will be delivered tomorrow. £58.32 ex vat. each

We'll see if a) they turn up and b) if my credit card has a different amount (which I'm not sure they can do - or at least defend if they do change it)
 
sachinbadiani said:
Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM - OEM

I bought this yesterday morning from OCUK for £149.xx (which arrived today 9am - great service). I thought I'd just have a price comparison and today they are £187.99. I guess I was lucky to get it now, but how much were they say 2 weeks ago (if anyone knows)? Just want to gauge price increase.

Thank you for the heads up OCUK. :)
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I almost bought one for £95 last thursday from somewhere else, the prices have gone bat**** crazy.

Justintime said:
Quick question, how much were 3tb 7200rpm drives pre-shortage? :) I think i just had a heart attack when speccing a clients system.
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You could find external ones from £90, and internal in a couple places for under £100, but it was pretty easy to find most brands around £110.

Gibbo said:
Bargain, they cost way way more than that to re-buy from distribution.
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While I understand that, I can't condone the thinking, if they've bought those drives for say, £70, and sell them at £85, just because the next batch might cost £120 to buy, DOESN'T mean they should sell the current ones above that price.

Again this all boils down to, if people refused to pay the prices, the prices wouldn't rise, but people just can't hold off, can't wait, don't want to lose out to someone else so will buy anything, its a sad state of affairs that this kind of thing always happens.

Fundamentally, say a Seagate factory employs the same people, buys the same parts, pays the same wages, and shipping costs haven't changed, in which case theres no reason for the prices to.

I mean, this is what all the price fixing cases on memory were about, a bunch of memory companies get together, hold back several hundred million in stock of memory chips, force low supply and watch people get desparate and pay through the teeth, then they sell the excess stock for the same price as before, and massively increase profits. Sure theres a "real" stock problem here for a change, but it doesn't really change the situation.

EDIT:- can still see internal 2tb's for sub £70, and external for sub £65 ;)
 
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Just picked up a Samsung F3 1TB for £69.50 delivered. Still almost twice what I paid a couple of months back but all my old/spare drives are low capacity / slow ancient things, so decided I had no choice. You've got to laugh.

Wonder what they will be up to by this time next week?
 
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