When will hard drives prices go back to normal

SoildSnake

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Anyone know when we can expect drives to get the at least fairly normal levels?

I don't wish to slander the retailers but afaik only a portion of drives were destroyed in the floods in thiland, not to mention other supplies from other countires; so why is it that ALL drives across the board; brands and retailers are basically double? Seems like a tricky way to get more money or am i misinformed?
 
After reading most of [THREAD=18331625]this thread[/THREAD] the consensus seems to be that by about April prices won't be stupidly expensive, they are dropping slowly; but it could be December 2012 (if ever) that they reach pre-flood prices for what will be considered a good hard drive at that time (I imagine the tech will have moved on so current HDDs will be cheaper)
 
Damn, Id imagine that the retailers will hold onto to the prices as long as possible while they crep slowly down, but sadly my drive is running out of space, time to grab a 2tb or 3tb it seems!
 
My own stab in the dark is for prices to be about back to where they were by September. Then I think they'll dip lower as higher capacity drives become more prevalent. With 4TB drives on the market I'd expect 2TB drives to be about £40 by this time next year.
 
i bought my 2tb caviar green for £112 on my birthday two years ago, i bought a hitachi 2tb for £55 a couple of months before all this kicked off - the prices are just insane at the moment!
 
I remember buying 2x 750GB Samsung drives a while back at 29.99 each.

There is no way I would pay these prices for a HD at the moment even if i needed one, I would rather get some SSD.
 
Prices will go back to normal. Platter size has always increased in this competitive industry and will continue to increase until the next technology comes out. So prices will once again fall with time.

Anyone saying otherwise is basically saying all R&D will be dropped, the tech will stay the same forever and no extra production will ever be made. But as we all know, where there is demand and a shortage there is innovation, improvement and breakthroughs.
 
I thankfully got my Seagate 1TB Barracuda as a bday present in the first week of November, it was bought about a week or two before the prices increase, it was about £45 quid, same retailer, same hard drive £114.99 ( currently on sale from £134.99 ) but it says there's 195 in stock? Surely if a single company has nearly 200 of the drives sitting around there can't be that much of a shortage anymore?
 
well the longer you wait the lower the prices will be

if you have any drives laying around or can backup to an ext drive then it might be wise to wait :)
 
In my own opinion,
The sellers won't be able to hold the high prices as long as they'd like to....
As newer drives are being made and they are being wholesaled cheaper, the companies who bought drives at a higher price will want rid of them before they get undercut by companies with the newer cheaper stock.

I wouldn't want to be trying to sell something for £1 profit when another site is selling something £5 cheaper than me and making £5 profit.
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Im holding out, i have 5tb but its nearly full, but i am going to figure out good mkv compression options.

No way i am paying £100 plus just to hold blu rays i already own!
 
Good thing I've got 6 terbytes, including one portable, can't help but think I need an SSD though, what actual/real world benefits does an SSD over over a standard HDD?
 
Jay794 said:
Good thing I've got 6 terbytes, including one portable, can't help but think I need an SSD though, what actual/real world benefits does an SSD over over a standard HDD?
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Not sure myself, but from demos ive seen, windows boots much faster & loads programs etc.

In my case though, I guessed it wouldn't be worth it since I have a 1tb hard drive full of stuff, the only way it would work out is to install windows on the ssd & then everything else on a mechanical HDD.
 
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