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

delpy8 · 20 Dec 2011 at 05:26

glen8 said:
I've just bought 2 2tb drives over the last two weeks.

The first was £89.99 and the second was £79.99, both were heavily in stock and still are

When you think that the cheapest 2tb drive I personally bought was for around £65 it's not THAT much more expensive.

Where are these in stock as I cant see any?

sunama · 20 Dec 2011 at 09:12

I believe that you can get a 2TB samsung for £75, right now (I'm not sure if the offer is still on).
Just do a search on google and something should pop up.

dtokez · 20 Dec 2011 at 12:52

this is the first i have heard of this, just went to buy someone a 1tb drive for xmas and I don't think I will bother now

so the prices are falling now some people say?

sunama · 20 Dec 2011 at 13:04

Get a 2TB drive. I believe these are cheaper than the 1TB drives.

glenimp617 · 20 Dec 2011 at 15:42

sunama said:
glen8, a little off topic, but is the i7-3930k worth it?
I'm a little jealous...especially that 27" Hazro.

Hazro 27" is amazing, I've had a fair few TFTs over the years and this is my favourite. The build quality is average but the screen is just brilliant.

The 3930k is good for me as I do a lot of video encoding with x264.exe so I need all the cores I can get.

durbs · 20 Dec 2011 at 22:29

sunama said:
I believe that you can get a 2TB samsung for £75, right now

Thats still £30 more than I would pay without feeling i'm being asked to bend over

HarryPainful · 20 Dec 2011 at 22:38

So you are expecting to buy a 2TB disk for £45?

Dream on mate!

Justintime · 21 Dec 2011 at 02:33

Aye 45.00 is pushing it a bit

durbs · 21 Dec 2011 at 10:47

HarryPainful said:
So you are expecting to buy a 2TB disk for £45?

Dream on mate!

Thats what I paid on my last build before the pricing went crazy (edited, actually £49.95). You young'uns dont remember the good old days of early '11.

RichDuffy · 21 Dec 2011 at 14:46

I reckon we'll see £45 2TB drives by September. With the 4TB drives starting to come out in the next few months, prices on lower capacity drives will drop a bit further than otherwise.

Deluxe1 · 21 Dec 2011 at 15:15

Samsung F4 2GB for £69.98 if you know where to look.

R088ieS86 · 21 Dec 2011 at 15:16

haha only with "frustration free" packaging... what does that mean?

scrlk · 21 Dec 2011 at 15:20

R088ieS86 said:
haha only with "frustration free" packaging... what does that mean?

No blister packaging.

Deluxe1 · 21 Dec 2011 at 15:20

Its delivered in a easy to open recyclable box.

durbs · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:04

R088ieS86 said:
haha only with "frustration free" packaging... what does that mean?

Last one I got from that well known South American river based retailier, it mean they just bunged it naked in a jiffy bag. Was fine though.

BlackAle · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:12

Andrew Moore said:
I smile a lot reading this thread. If only the majority looked at stocks from a component point of view.. The lack of certain parts is what's causing the issue. One particular part is down 70%.. That means production on total drives once the stocks of said component runs out will hit 30%... That's the issue.

If you want to wait about for storage then that's fine. It'll not get better any time soon that's for sure.

You posted that a few weeks ago, you must feel pretty stupid now!

sunama · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:41

Steady on Blackale. The prices haven't come down to say £30/TB, yet.
Nothing has been settled yet.

Once they dip below £30/TB, that's when you can have your laugh.

Myself, I said late March, early April for a return to normal pricing, and I still stick by that.

Andrew Moore · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:44

BlackAle said:
You posted that a few weeks ago, you must feel pretty stupid now!

Nope not at all.

Pricing wont ever be "as they were" as both Seagate and WD are increasing minimum profit margin to a point where your drives will cost 20-30% more than they once did and Warranty is being dropped from 5 years to as low as 1 on some lines.

Now whos the silly one

BlackAle · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:46

Andrew Moore said:
Now whos the silly one

Current prices say otherwise, down to £70 for 2TB. The scaremongering panic buying is over.

durbs · 21 Dec 2011 at 16:47

Deluxe1 said:
Samsung F4 2GB for £69.98 if you know where to look.

I've just bought a couple of those a few mins ago.

I feel dirty and used now.

Went for it as Xmas break would be a perfect time to decommision my NAS and ML115 server (both for sale if anyone wants 'em!) and replace them with a new Microserver so had to fork out