Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!
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Aye, they'll go bat **** crazy spending hundreds more to get a super Extreme ultra edition motherboard that might let them get another 100Mhz out of an overclock, whilst spending the same cash on an SSD will make a million times more noticable difference.
Given the prices of drives I'm going to have to dance with the devil, and expand into my second file server, which up till now has been mirroring.
You can get better performing 2TB F4 drives for a bit more.
the 2tb F4 is 5400rpm
But much larger platters, 667MB platters.
component sellers make me laugh western digital green is made in malaysia so how can flooding in thailand make prices go up
can understand the digital blacks going up as they are made in thailand
think the hard drive companys are just taking the p out of us by driving the prices up
have a look at your drives and see where they are made
can understand the digital blacks going up as they are made in thailand
think the hard drive companys are just taking the p out of us by driving the prices up
have a look at your drives and see where they are made
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70% of the components for the drives come from Thailand as this is where they are made. Just because a drive says "made in XXXX" doesnt mean that it is. It just means that is where all of the parts were thrown together.
mikeo i see the same drive at 49.99.
Try actually clicking on the LINK. It may show £49.99 but when you are re-directed to the site, it says the best part of £70.
Another says £55.76 (popular retailer) but when re-directed to the site, it says £107.86
If I could get them for what you quoted, I would buy a few and make a killing!
Moral here, check your facts.
Fair comment. But I wanted this drive specifically to raid with another one I have.
Ah okay, that makes a lot of sense.
In general though I am amazed how much the prices of 1TB drives have increased.
The supply must really be squeezed by OEM PC manufacturers.
think this link explains the situation a little better but it still does not explain why all drives have rocketed in price not all manufacturers would be effected by the floods in one place. Does not make good business sence to have every thing manufactured at one plant
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile...why-thailand-floods-mean-pricier-hard-drives/
for example western digital does not produce all its drives in asia
seagate produce drives in china and thailand
these are but a few of the manufacturers and i think they all produce drives all over the world so the cost being drove up by flooding in one place really should not effect the whole market being pushed up
still think there is more behind it than floods
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile...why-thailand-floods-mean-pricier-hard-drives/
for example western digital does not produce all its drives in asia
seagate produce drives in china and thailand
these are but a few of the manufacturers and i think they all produce drives all over the world so the cost being drove up by flooding in one place really should not effect the whole market being pushed up
still think there is more behind it than floods
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never thought about the OEMs good point
not that i've seen to many 2tb drives in a dell computers would have thought the most oems would be using 1tb or less drives and at the prices that most suppliers where getting the drives pre flood they would have had loads in stock
shocking to think a WD 320Gb blue is now the same price as a 2Tb green was a few weeks back.
well at least nvidia cards are not made in thailand i shudder to think at the hikes on those, guess we will all have to wait it out
not that i've seen to many 2tb drives in a dell computers would have thought the most oems would be using 1tb or less drives and at the prices that most suppliers where getting the drives pre flood they would have had loads in stock
shocking to think a WD 320Gb blue is now the same price as a 2Tb green was a few weeks back.
well at least nvidia cards are not made in thailand i shudder to think at the hikes on those, guess we will all have to wait it out
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It doesn't matter whether all the discs are made in Thailand or not, the price hikes are down to good old fashioned supply and demand.
Ie. prices are going up because there is a reduced supply.