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

I just got a 2TB Hitachi usb drive in t**** for £67, there were more on the shelf so that should do me for quite a while.
 
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got a 2tb seagate externall 7200 rpm for £79.99 and a £10 voucher back from that big catalogue shop in the high st :)
 
^^^ they are doing a 3TB one, only USB 2 though, external for £120 and then you get a £20 voucher back.
 
After reading this thread for the first time i went and ordered a Recertified Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - (WD30EZRX) for £100.80 with delivery.

Normally i wouldnt buy Recertified stuff but wanted a 3tb drive for some time and now they selling for £200 + at most places and im guessing prices would go up more over the months if stock becomes a problem
 
Surveyor said:
If people spend hundreds or thousands of pounds on CD's, DVD's and Blu-Rays, and then countless hours ripping them, they should find a few quid to spend to back up the data.

And what price do you put on all the home photos and videos that are irreplaceable?
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I used to be in the "it'll never happen to me" gang.

I had a 750GB drive packed with irreplaceable data and I decided to RAID1 just in case.
The day before the 2nd drive arrived....pop.... drive failed.

It cost me in excess of £800 and 3 months to recover the data, so I'm not making that mistake again.
Data is now on a RAID6 array and backed up to another smaller RAID5 array and then the irreplaceable stuff is backed up to 2 separate 2TB USB disks,
one stored here at home with the second stored away from the house.

All that cost me less than £800 and there gotta be some kinda freak disaster to wipe out everything!
 
mikeo said:
Pretty pedestrian at only a real world transfer rate of something like 40MB/s though!
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It it steady through USB as it's only USB2 though inside lurks a Barracuda XT ST33000651AS which is a decent enough 7200rpm drive.

The Seagate expansion drives have some issues though, mostly with clicking drives. From a search around the usual cause is a fault with the drive enclosure and interface. If it fails the drive will usually work ok as a bare drive or in an alternative enclosure. I stripped mine after a quick drive test as it's going into a home server. Cheapest way to get hold of a decent size drive to act as the server backup.

Only problem with this is no way to open the case without voiding the warranty and the bare drive is not eligible for the 5 year warranty as the Seagate site shows it as a system component.

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Ok I just took a rash decision. I've been thinking of building a small server for a while with a pair of 2tb drives. But with prices going through the roof I decided to wait until they calm down again. I had been indecisive for too long and prices overtook me.

But... I just popped out and grabbed an external USB2 Hitachi XL2000 2tb for £67 at a bricks and mortar place on a whim. Unfortunately they only had one left so if I can't find another in a few days then I'll return it. My thinking was to whip the drives out, RAID them and then sell the caddy's somewhere for a few pounds (would that count as selling for profit on the mm here as it's not really for profit at all?)

As I said if I can't find a second one in a day or two then I'll return it and wait for prices to return to a normal level. I'm simply not paying the current prices.
 
Hades said:
Ok I just took a rash decision. I've been thinking of building a small server for a while with a pair of 2tb drives. But with prices going through the roof I decided to wait until they calm down again. I had been indecisive for too long and prices overtook me.

But... I just popped out and grabbed an external USB2 Hitachi XL2000 2tb for £67 at a bricks and mortar place on a whim. Unfortunately they only had one left so if I can't find another in a few days then I'll return it. My thinking was to whip the drives out, RAID them and then sell the caddy's somewhere for a few pounds (would that count as selling for profit on the mm here as it's not really for profit at all?)

As I said if I can't find a second one in a day or two then I'll return it and wait for prices to return to a normal level. I'm simply not paying the current prices.
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It sounds like a plan but remember you'll likely void the warranty on a HDD if you remove it from the caddy it was sold in.
 
easyrider said:
Yeah asking 50 quid for a 1TB drive bought in 2009 was taking the mick somewhat.

Its good to see that people are not buying overpriced Drives In MM. Its not the way we roll in there.
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I fully expected to settle on £40 eventually. But I decided to put it in a caddy and create an external drive.
 
£95 for a drive that used to sell for around £40 (Samsung F3 1TB) Wow if retailers had a pretty huge stockpile before this flooding happened they must have made a mint in profits. I could imagine OcUK having a pretty large stockpile.
 
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