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

Arkano6 · 31 Oct 2011 at 17:13

Ugh, 320GB Samsung just went up from £60 to £68. It's not as bad as I was expecting it to go up by, but I'm going to need to order my rig this week if I don't want to go over budget on a HDD of all things.

ianh · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:21

dLockers said:
Infact, I'd put money on this being the case.

WD external HDD's don't mount a sata/ide connector mobo to the drive as the USB mobo is hard-wired directly to the hard drive. I've taken a few apart that had dodgy Micro-USB connectors and found that you can't replace the USB mobo if it breaks so the drive is dead (unless you can remove the platters!)

chrisarm · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:37

Arkano6 said:
Ugh, 320GB Samsung just went up from £60 to £68. It's not as bad as I was expecting it to go up by, but I'm going to need to order my rig this week if I don't want to go over budget on a HDD of all things.

Think I'd be tempted to get a solid state and wait for the prices to come down

chippy08 · 31 Oct 2011 at 18:41

I seen 1tb drives for £40 today was tempted but just dont need any more drives.

nikeair94 · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:21

chippy08 said:
I seen 1tb drives for £40 today was tempted but just dont need any more drives.

Is it against the rules for you to tell us where you seen this?

psychas · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:28

darn 1 tb black caviar double the price bought my for 65 £ back in a day

chippy08 · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:31

nikeair94 said:
Is it against the rules for you to tell us where you seen this?

Yes it is im affraid.

Balb0wa · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:33

chippy08 said:
I seen 1tb drives for £40 today was tempted but just dont need any more drives.

you behave chippy!!

chippy08 · 31 Oct 2011 at 21:37

Balb0wa said:
you behave chippy!!

LoL where you been hiding ?

Servo · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:29

This is crazy, I'm buying my Grandkids media players for xmas, I thought I may have left it too long, but managed to find 2 Iomega Select 1.5TB 3.5 inch USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive for £121 inc. These have samsung drives inside.

I believe there's no way on earth the price increase should be this steep. I talked with the person I bought these off, and he said, he was being silly and selling them at the old price, he will increase the price when he orders next... Now thats a good seller!

dlockers · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:32

I can imagine some retailers are taking advantage. The big 3 electrical retailers seem to be unaware by the looks of it :/

koolpc · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:55

Some retailers are jumping on the bandwagon and charging the earth!! Silly people will buy at those prices too!

A2Z · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:28

Ohhhh just seen this topic, knew nothing about it...

Been meaning to get a new HD for a few months now, but never quite ran out of space so was not 'needed'.

Now ive got some money, was looking to get a new 2TB, but not looking to pay more then £50 for it as thats what they used to be...guess wont be buying one for a few months yet

dlockers · 1 Nov 2011 at 14:39

Months, hopeful.
Years, probable.

I bet profit margins are soaring at the moment for wholesale vendors clearing previously purchased stock.

chrisarm · 1 Nov 2011 at 16:05

Servo said:
This is crazy, I'm buying my Grandkids media players for xmas, I thought I may have left it too long, but managed to find 2 Iomega Select 1.5TB 3.5 inch USB 2.0 Desktop Hard Drive for £121 inc. These have samsung drives inside.

I believe there's no way on earth the price increase should be this steep. I talked with the person I bought these off, and he said, he was being silly and selling them at the old price, he will increase the price when he orders next... Now thats a good seller!

That's still pretty steep, a certain highstreet store which makes you buy from a catalogue has 2tb external drives for £80 plus if you reserve on line you get a 4gb flash drive with it

Servo · 1 Nov 2011 at 16:26

chrisarm said:
That's still pretty steep, a certain highstreet store which makes you buy from a catalogue has 2tb external drives for £80 plus if you reserve on line you get a 4gb flash drive with it

£121 is for two external drives, that about £60 each including post.

I didn't fancy paying £160 for the two tbs

chrisarm · 1 Nov 2011 at 18:09

Servo said:
£121 is for two external drives, that about £60 each including post.

I didn't fancy paying £160 for the two tbs

Ah right I thought you ment £121 each. I'm having a bit of a brain fart day today

Andrew Moore · 2 Nov 2011 at 13:51

Hello

Price increases of £5 or more across most lines over the coming few days.

Andrew Moore · 2 Nov 2011 at 15:05

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/marketreport/thailand-hdd-production-down

It gets worse...

hyip001 · 2 Nov 2011 at 15:09

This is madness!

Luckily I snatched one of the last 1TB WD last night for £70. Looks like it's time to take the step to SSD