Well said. I remember reading that worldwide production of drives will only be down something like 30%, the price is artificially high at the moment due to speculators, the true demand/supply price will be far more easily stomached.
Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!
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Well said. I remember reading that worldwide production of drives will only be down something like 30%, the price is artificially high at the moment due to speculators, the true demand/supply price will be far more easily stomached.
They look legit, checked them out on Companies House and they've been going since 1993.
Same one I reckon. Reload it, both the paypal checkout and credit card processing things are through paypal so that could be why they're throwing up an error.
Just picked up 2x 2TB drives for £75 apiece.
Still 50% more what they were though, I could do with a 2TB but not desperate enough to pay those fees yet
There's only a few pounds in it, so I went for the 2TB ones.I've changed browser and now it wants my cc detailsNow I'm wondering if I should get a 2TB rather than the 1TB I was planning on getting?
Still 50% more what they were though, I could do with a 2TB but not desperate enough to pay those fees yet
Very true, I was extremely butthurt over it all because I was about to buy some drives as they went up in price, but these prices are much better, I've basically got them for half the going rate currently at other places and I'm in "desperate" need of more storage for my file server.
Same for me. I've got a 4x 1TB Dynamic Drive setup on my file server that's going really dodgy, I don't think there's anything wrong with the drives themselves but the array keeps dissappearing from windows and only re-appears after a few reboots, so I need to get some new storage so I can transfer the contents of the 4x 1TB drives and then split them back in to individual drives.
Fair enough as they're fairly reasonably priced on that site to what's about mostly everywhere else, then yes I'd say it's a good idea to get the 2 x 2TB at the current price.
My OCZ 600w Mod Extreme PSU blew on me a couple of weeks ago and took my Samsung 1TB HDD with it
Unfortunately the supplier would only refund £36 of the original price and would not issue a replacement, so in the current HDD climate I've got away lightly with the £73. I went with the 1TB WD Caviar Black in the end as they have the best performance over Green and Blue and also have a 5 year warranty, whereas the Green and Blue have less performance and a 3 year warranty. I've had WD's before and their warranty service is most excellent.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-115-WD&groupid=595&catid=671&subcat= thought you guys would like to see this. has anyone brought b grade before?
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I bet retailers will hold on to these over bloated prices as long as possible.
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Just picked up 2x 2TB drives for £75 apiece.
Dont count your chickens. Chances are, they dont actually have that stock and are quoting distributer stock. You may find they cancel when it comes to processing, several sites have done this. Good luck though
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Are the prices of SSDs also going up?
Just learnt a hard lession (Make sure you backup data) as 2 of my 1TB drives failed me
;-(
Sent one back to Seagate but they are refusing to replace it (it was one I ripped out of an external enclosure from Iomega but had forgotten that).
Luckily I've just managed to get 2x 2TB Seagate External drives for £79.99 - both have been shipped. - This time I will remember to put them back in the enclosure should they fail me again!
And now I have set up Raid to minimise data loss.
;-(
Sent one back to Seagate but they are refusing to replace it (it was one I ripped out of an external enclosure from Iomega but had forgotten that).
Luckily I've just managed to get 2x 2TB Seagate External drives for £79.99 - both have been shipped. - This time I will remember to put them back in the enclosure should they fail me again!
And now I have set up Raid to minimise data loss.
Recently I sold a 2TB and 2x 750gb as I thought I had enough space then at the weekend I install a new mobo and both my samsung 1TB go click click click and wont work so just my luck that prices are high as Im needing to replace them
These Samsung 1TB's are terrible, I've read quite a few reports of F3's dying and had one die myself a couple of weeks ago, and today I had another one clicking on me although touch wood it's still going!
I could really do with a couple of 2TB drive and maybe another 1TB but I'm trying my best to hold out until prices become reasonable.
I could really do with a couple of 2TB drive and maybe another 1TB but I'm trying my best to hold out until prices become reasonable.