Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!
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Frustration free packaging...
On a side note, I bought a little load of 2TB drives in anticipation last week at £80 a pop. Today the same drives are £130.
Also worth noting is that a competitor sells a desktop PC with a Pentium Dual Core CPU, 4GB of ram and a 1TB hd for £190. The cheapest 1TB HD the same competitor sells is £100.
Also worth noting is that a competitor sells a desktop PC with a Pentium Dual Core CPU, 4GB of ram and a 1TB hd for £190. The cheapest 1TB HD the same competitor sells is £100.
Environmentally green packaging you could say when reading how little they have used in the past to package their drives
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Well my nice shiny usb 3 2tb drives at £59.99 a pop arrived today. I could have just bought a crap load and hoarded, then sold them on at an increased cost, instead I got two then put the deal on a well known deals website so others could save some money.
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New hdd's are VERY slow, every single part of "ssd" performance, and what makes ssd's seem fast, booting, application opening, ultra responsiveness is from, latency and 4kb read/writes, a new 4tb Seagate is still in the 13-18ms latency range, vs WELL below 1ns for SSD's, and in the range of 0.5-1.5 4kb random read/writes, where the latest ssd's will be along the lines of 30-40mb's read's and even higher writes.
Sequential speeds of ssd's even up to 2 years ago wasn't very impressive vs hdd's, 130-140mb's sequential speeds on hdd's vs 90mb's on the first ssd's, 170mb's for a couple years after that wasn't impressive, it was all in the latency and random read/write performance, HDD's are magnitudes behind in those key area's and haven't moved on at all, SSD's have extended the lead in the ultra slow area's and sequential read/writes have now trebled over HDD's, while years ago they weren't even faster, but slower in that area. The gap is extending by a pretty big margin each and every year now.
From http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_4tb_barracuda_xt_first_thoughts_review
Performance is very poor, random performance hasn't increased in really, 7-8 years, sequential has gone up marginally, and the inner tracks haven't gone up much at all, average performance is up a very small amount.
SSD's can do sequential 550mb/s reads and 450mb/s writes across the entire drive, with no slow down, random 2mb performance is basically the same, where hdd's drop to 1/4 of the performance if that, 4kb performance on hdd's drops to sub 1mb/s, while ssd's only drop to 30mb's read's, 70-80kb's writes. With higher queue depth on ssd's you can dramatically increase random 4kb read/write back towards top performance while on hdd's it makes next to no difference.
They do cost a lot, obviously, but you get massively better performance, you're talking about 100 times the random read/write performance, actually in writes its more like 200 times the performance, 4 times the sequential performance, instant access, etc, etc. Its also far to say cheaper ssd's and smaller ssd's drop performance significantly vs 240gb models, however, even the slowest 60gb ssd drives still absolutely blow away HDD performance.
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) don't look so expensive!!If this is the case, do you think this will have any affect on the price coming down again once the situation is over? I wonder when manufacturers realise people are still happy paying the raised prices (increasingly happy to do so you say
) - will this stop the prices coming back down again, or at least make them come down a _lot_ slower?Also, do you have any indication of whether the situation might also start to affect the SSD market and would it be worth looking to buy these sooner rather than later?
Guess i have you to thank then, i have 4 2TB Hitachi's coming from the same place. Bought for £54.99.
If this is the case, do you think this will have any affect on the price coming down again once the situation is over? I wonder when manufacturers realise people are still happy paying the raised prices (increasingly happy to do so you say
Also, do you have any indication of whether the situation might also start to affect the SSD market and would it be worth looking to buy these sooner rather than later?
Who knows, for us its about time ASP's increased as drives, memory etc. has been way to cheap for far too long, getting to the point where the manufacturers making far less.
So though prices will definetely come down, though no doubt next year now, the question is will they come back down to what they were, only time will tell.
In regards to other hardware, well it does appear SSD, optical is starting to move upwards slowely. One can expect laptops to move as well and of course full systems due to having hard drives in them.
Memory at present is stable but thats still not had his usual increase apart from a little one last month, so that is unknown.
Everything else seems rather stable but there is nothing to say a memory factory won't explode next week.
No disrespect mate but read what it says when you select this method of supply!
"Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months."
Anyone else want to try?
Well this sucks. I was looking to pick up a couple of 1tb WD Blacks but at £145.99 i think i'm going to wait.
Did notice that the prices on a very big US PC store are considerably lower. A 1tb Black is currently $139.99 (£87).
Always seems like when prices increase, we Brits take a much larger hit than anywhere else.
Did notice that the prices on a very big US PC store are considerably lower. A 1tb Black is currently $139.99 (£87).
Always seems like when prices increase, we Brits take a much larger hit than anywhere else.
Hard drives are going to be this christmas Wii
Give it till 15 December and put up 1TB drives for £300
I went for the USB3.0 2TB versions for an extra fiver a go - have 3 sat on my desk right now.
Edit: price is now £137 a pop!!