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

Just reserved a 2TB GoFlex, £89.99 but luckily I have a £10 voucher.

It's an electronics store, first three letters are the same as 'large piece of paper that helps guide your way' :D
 
Walked into purpleshirts store yesterday and they have piles of WD drives in the 1TB-2TB range. Nobody's buying them. This whole thing is starting to feel increasingly ridiculous. I need another WD20EARX drive, but I won't buy one more out of principle than walletpain.
 
I was in a large chain store purple shirts, I was in looking at LCD TV price.

Anyway went to the HD section and it had a sign limited to two per customer said on the passing “ how is the stock” Guy turned as said absolutely loads we only keep that sign to cover us but there was no panic buying at all.
 
Sav112 said:
I was in a large chain store purple shirts, I was in looking at LCD TV price.

Anyway went to the HD section and it had a sign limited to two per customer said on the passing “ how is the stock” Guy turned as said absolutely loads we only keep that sign to cover us but there was no panic buying at all.
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Exactly. They're swimming in drives when they could be selling them off for just a little bit over the prices we had two months ago. If they'd sell a 2TB drive for £89-99 instead of £149 I'm sure a lot more people would go and buy them.
 
Some of you are penny pinching over £30-£40 and then converting externals to internals which invalidates the warranty. You only have to look at the pictures from Thailand to see that there genuinely is a problem, but hey don't let that stop you.

Personally I don't mind paying a few £££'s more in light of the circumnstances and get a 5 year warranty with something like a caviar black.
 
tywyn said:
Some of you are penny pinching over £30-£40 and then converting externals to internals which invalidates the warranty. You only have to look at the pictures from Thailand to see that there genuinely is a problem, but hey don't let that stop you.

Personally I don't mind paying a few £££'s more in light of the circumnstances and get a 5 year warranty with something like a caviar black.
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Sure there's a problem, but the retailers are actively trying to make additional profit off of it, which is far worse than us whining about a few pennies, if you ask me. As I said, I have no problem affording these things, I just won't buy them because the companies are trying to rip us off.
 
SeeKified said:
Exactly. They're swimming in drives when they could be selling them off for just a little bit over the prices we had two months ago. If they'd sell a 2TB drive for £89-99 instead of £149 I'm sure a lot more people would go and buy them.
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If you look online you'll find a supplier with 200 in stock Samsung F4EG's at £84.99

I dropped a hint a few posts ago but nobody noticed.

the limitation is 5 per buyer :D
 
Ok I have two options. I am looking to put two 2tb drives into my n40l microserver as raid1 for a NAS and have managed to aquire the following three drives.

1 x Hitachi external xl2000
2 x Seagate GoFlex 2tb external

I could either use the two Seagates or use the one Hitachi and buy a second at full price. I would return the unused drives. But the problem is that I wont know which drive are inside until I open them.

Opinions?

Also is there any benefit of going raid5 with three drives as a third option?
 
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Can't you use a disk tool and see the drive info when connected via USB?

I found out my freecom caddy has a Samsung 320GB drive and checked the serial on the warranty checker page and it's in warranty. Didn't need to open it up.
 
Thanks but if I open the boxes I can't return them.

Edit: actually I can try it on the Hitachi but not the seagates
 
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Hades said:
Thanks but if I open the boxes I can't return them.
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Oh right! Aha silly me, I thought you were talking about opening up the housing :D

If it was ordered online then you can open them to inspect the goods and return them within 7 working days if you decide to change your mind. (Incase you did buy them online and not in a shop)
 
Thanks again but they were from bricks and mortar stores. I could open the Hitachi because I have had it too long to return (if I don't use it I would sell on the mm for the same price I bought it for) but I grabbed the seagates today and the return policy is only returnable if unopened or faulty (they apparently test them too).
 
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