Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!
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having large stocks in such a fluctuating market could easily cripple your company in a matter of days.
imagine if you bought 10,000 units of something at £50 each, then their price went down to £10.
it works both ways.
Same happened to me a few months back, except the new drive had arrived, and I was planning to fit it the next day - are these drives psychic or something! I spent over a week trying to find fixes (there aren't any!) and then shopping around for a data recovery price (choice of expensive or ****ing outrageously expensive). The day I had arranged to send it off for recovery I gave it one last try despite my previous 100 attempts and it worked! Massive relief and very much a lesson learnt!
My 7200.12 Seagate failed after 8 months...instead of waiting for warranty replacement I went to Frys today and nearly all of the mechanical drives were out of stock and a little orange flyer was attached to the remaining ones saying that the Thailand floods have increased drive prices. :/
The only drives left were a few WD 1tb Blacks for 120 USD and some Hitachi 5400rpm 2TB for 94.
Needless to say I will just wait for my seagate RMA to come through and maybe purchase a SSD in the meantime as their prices are expected to go down.
The only drives left were a few WD 1tb Blacks for 120 USD and some Hitachi 5400rpm 2TB for 94.
Needless to say I will just wait for my seagate RMA to come through and maybe purchase a SSD in the meantime as their prices are expected to go down.
Without the floods, then yes medium term SSD prices would come down - but due to the high prices of HDD, I imagine that SSD sales will increase. I'm doubtful you will see many decreases in SSD prices right now (even so their production is unaffected afaik).
Don't think that the SSD market is affected.
I'm not sure that's entirely correct. Earlier in the year, Overclockers were selling the 512 GB Crucial M4 for £520. Now it's non-sale retail price is £600. Corsair drives have also gone up. I can't help but think that SSD manufacturers have realised that high HDD prices make SSDs more attractive and have decided to increase their margins, despite being unaffected by Thailand flooding.
Difficult to tell really. Depends on how much they can pick up production in other facilities I suppose (among other things). Also hard to tell at the moment how much is up to folks wanting to make a quick buck and a fair degree of panic buying as well I suspect. A bit like when there is even a hint of a petrol shortage, people make it a "self fore-filling prophecy" by rushing out and "topping theirs tanks up".
Time will tell, as it usually does.
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If you are just storing movies and such then it's a false economy to buy hard drives. Get your moneys-worth for your bandwidth imo.
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Why must this happen now while I'm building my media machine! Still, just managed to source a 2tb for £80 delivered which isn't too bad.
Teamed gig-e from server to switch, switch to bedroom switch then back to single gig-e then into htpc. Tried single link gig-e from A-B as well.
Streaming throughput is usually 5-20%. I've no idea why as I can max out the drives when pulling and pushing things like .iso files.
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND Relax
That's a lot of hard disk space you got there easyrider.
Can I ask what you do with all that HD space?