Hard drive prices - for those that don't go into General Hardware
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Yes as they use internal drives in a nice looking external housing/interface.
I'd be amazed if it doesn't also affect the price of PVR's (Sky+, V+, Tivo, freeview PVR's etc), HDD based mp3 players etc.
Basically everything with a hard drive is going to be affected.
they are one of the biggest in the country. bigger than ocuk i think.
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Same here, in the system in my sig. Considering I got mine 2 years ago and I'm not exactly 'pro' compared to most of you OcUKers, I would have imagined that everyone on here had at least a 1TB by now?
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You can't really blame the retailers, I've just had a look at some bulk supplier prices for 2TB drives and they've risen from ~£40 to £100+
I remember buying an 80gb external hard drive for £80 back in the day
makes me smile, I remember paying £300 for a 100Mb drive.
Back when I built one of my first rigs the price of RAM was insane.
I paid the best part of £250 for 2 gigs of Corsair XMS6400 800mhz DDR2 (from memory).
Now you can get 4gb or 6gb kits of much faster DDR3 RAM for about a third of that.
It's all swings and roundabouts with hardware.
I paid the best part of £250 for 2 gigs of Corsair XMS6400 800mhz DDR2 (from memory).
Now you can get 4gb or 6gb kits of much faster DDR3 RAM for about a third of that.
It's all swings and roundabouts with hardware.
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tbh its a bit absurd that pricing has risen already. It must take longer than that for supply to dry up. Tbh i'd rather just wait till its back down again.
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I paid £400+ for 20mb 'back in the day'
Why exactly should prices go up just because theres a more limited supply for a while?
They should cost no more than usual and if they run out then they run out, simple, they will use any excuse to make an extra profit at our expense though won't they?
They should cost no more than usual and if they run out then they run out, simple, they will use any excuse to make an extra profit at our expense though won't they?
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Are you really saying you don't understand supply and demand? Back to school for you.
Was that a Seagate St225 MFM perchance?
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the problem is all this "panic spreading" is meaning people are buying drives because they now all of a sudden appear a good deal. The best solution is to just not buy if you dont absolutely need one.
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Because thats the basic principle of the law of supply and demand?
Why would anyone price a product like that? If you have more demand than supply then price rises to the point where demand and supply are equal
they will use any excuse to make an extra profit at our expense though won't they?
Well that kinda is the point in a private company?
Are you another one of these nutjob anti-everything people?
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The question was to make a point, of course i know about supply and demand, that doesn't mean it's right, it's nothing more than taking advantage of a situation for profit, the way things should be is if they run out then they run out, you make more, simple.