Hard Drive prices - any news?

Frapple · 8 Mar 2012 at 12:00

Morning all, just bought a NAS that I'm going to stick my WD 2TB HDD into, for now I have ~100gb free and can keep deleting things to make room if necessary.

I was looking at getting 2x3TB drives so I never have to worry but these prices are still crazy - does anyone have any 'inside' news to when we can expect stock levels to return & prices to substantially drop?

linwelin · 8 Mar 2012 at 14:51

they have come down a lot since the increase i think, OC doing a 1TB for 80 quid.

Keod2 · 8 Mar 2012 at 18:42

Same as the post above says, plus a 2TB 7200RPM SATA III Harddrive has just come to 100quid in OC

HarryPainful · 8 Mar 2012 at 22:02

Much cheaper if you look around.

Bezzaboy1234 · 11 Mar 2012 at 21:03

Any chance of seeing them drop down to around £40/50 Like they used to in the next year?

chaparral · 11 Mar 2012 at 22:20

Frapple said:
100gb free and can keep deleting things to make room if necessary.

I was looking at getting 2x3TB drives so I never have to worry

I was having the same problem.
I been deleting stuff all the time to make space for new stuff for about the last 12months

So Last week i had enough of working out what to delete/keep so i ordered these

sunny007 · 11 Mar 2012 at 22:21

How comes the VAT is Zero ?

chaparral · 11 Mar 2012 at 22:23

sunny007 said:
How comes the VAT is Zero ?

Because i live in guernsey

shadow_boxer · 11 Mar 2012 at 22:43

chaparral said:
Because i live in guernsey

Fancy buying me a few?!

As an above poster has mentioned it's well worth looking around, unfortunately OcUK aren't that competitive with HDD pricing at the minute.

chaparral · 11 Mar 2012 at 22:55

shadow_boxer said:
Fancy buying me a few?!(

Anything i post to the UK mainland that worth more then £15 needs VAT payed on it

It the same as when you get something posted from the US or china etc you get all the import fee's to pay..

Purgatory · 12 Mar 2012 at 00:53

Ridiculous prices still...

On the 11/7/2011 I paid £62.49 ex-VAT for this drive from OCUK http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-077-HI&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1954 and now they are asking £141.66 ex-VAT.

I purchased 3 as you can see below.
£62.49 x 3 - Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM - OEM (0F12115) (HDS723020BLA642)

Till the drives come back down to these prices again I won't be buying any and will make use of my drives better and clear out junk, also I will look for deals on drives till they come back down to these prices again or lower. Drives are not worth these prices they are selling at now and I go threw many drives and not one brand I have used so far proves to be 100% reliable or worth that sort of money they are priced at now. I paid £140 not long before the Hitachi drives for the 2TB WD Caviar Black 2TB...prices were high on this drive from day one and never really came down a lot and I felt ripped off but it has proved so far to be a good fast drive (fingers crossed).. I only paid that because I read very good reviews and wanted a fast boot drive and not an SSD because of all the horror stories around them back then.

Bezzaboy1234 · 17 Mar 2012 at 13:08

Really Need A Drive But Am Refusing To Pay like 150+ For 2TB,
127GB Of Space Free Out Of 4TB, Yikes!
=(

chaparral · 17 Mar 2012 at 14:05

Bezzaboy1234 said:
Really Need A Drive But Am Refusing To Pay like 150+ For 2TB,
=(

2TB 150+

But you can buy 2TB drives for under £100
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-SE&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1954
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-374-WD&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1954

marms · 17 Mar 2012 at 15:36

Bezzaboy1234 said:
Really Need A Drive But Am Refusing To Pay like 150+ For 2TB,
127GB Of Space Free Out Of 4TB, Yikes!
=(

I think OCUK had 2TB 7200rpm drives for under £100 last week on this week only offer, that wasn't bad for a fast large drive.

chippy08 · 17 Mar 2012 at 15:41

Have seen some 2TB drives around for £70.

Hyburnate · 17 Mar 2012 at 15:58

37GB on my Samsung
90GB on my Seagate.

However the Seagate is atleast hmmm 6 years old? So its coming to the end of its life span so I refuse to put anything valuable on it.

Deep · 17 Mar 2012 at 18:05

I can't wait till they return to normal prices.
I want to get some more 3TB drives

jkkc313 · 17 Mar 2012 at 22:06

Deep said:
I can't wait till they return to normal prices.
I want to get some more 3TB drives

I'm thinking more towards the 4GBs

CaptainRAVE · 17 Mar 2012 at 22:11

Any ideas when pricing will go back to normal?

Semple · 17 Mar 2012 at 22:23

1TB drives will most likely not return to these levels. Instead the prices of 2 and 3TB drives will drop to the point where it's not worth making/purchasing 1TB drives.