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

Andrew Moore · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:19

As pre warned, Mechanical storage is going up in price at an alarming rate.

This is unlikely to change before 2012 with price increases potentially going to increase by even more.

These are dark times on the storage front at the moment with deals none existant for some time to come

You may indeed be able to buy drives much cheaper elsewhere but they WILL run out of stock very quickly so my advice is that you buy where you can as you will not see affordable storage at all as current stocks deplete.

Hyburnate · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:24

Nooooo

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WERE ALL ****ED.

Gibbo · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:27

Prices are set to double / triple from what they were a couple of weeks ago by end of this month. Due to mass shortages until next year.

There shall be no more offers on HDD sorry from this point onwards.
If you see a HDD cheap, buy it as not all companies have moved on price yet.

Jay794 · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:36

And thats why I bought a 2TB hard drive a few weeks ago for £50, as awell as the 1TB that already came with my PC, and the 2TB external NAS drive. I've got backups of backups lol

Gibbo · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:39

Jay794 said:
And thats why I bought a 2TB hard drive a few weeks ago for £50, as awell as the 1TB that already came with my PC, and the 2TB external NAS drive. I've got backups of backups lol

2TB now £80

barneystuta · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:40

Wow, that is a price hike. I got a 500gb and my plan was to add more storage later.

I think I will see what old drives I have knocking around (not your fault for the prices, I know, but cheers for the explanation).

shadow_boxer · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:41

Thanks for the heads up. Wow they really have gone up! Sounds like a good time to add another 2TB sooner rather than later...

Greboth · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:42

Short of failures I have all the storage I need for years to come but how come there is a sudden shortage

sucks prices are going up so much.

somewhatdamaged · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:43

Hopefully these shortages won't affect the likes of Samsung and Western Digital to provide warranty services!

barneystuta · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:44

Greboth said:
Short of failures I have all the storage I need for years to come but how come there is a sudden shortage sucks prices are going up so much.

Think it was to do with the natural disasters in Asia

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...age-looms-floods-breach-western-digital-plant

MooMoo444 · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:44

Dont worry guys, a 2TB SSD will be around £50 in a few years time.

I wish..

hominid · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:46

I thought this was going to happen when I read that thailand had major flooding that was going to impact supply..

Read here: http://www.isuppli.com/Memory-and-S...-Flood-Disrupts-Hard-Disk-Drive-Supplies.aspx

Shamikebab · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:48

Noooooo, think of the pron!

dcsarge · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:49

Crikey it looks like only Samsung have been lucky enough to carry on production. Better get my mate to part with some more cash for his build sharpish

Gibbo · 20 Oct 2011 at 13:52

dcsarge said:
Crikey it looks like only Samsung have been lucky enough to carry on production. Better get my mate to part with some more cash for his build sharpish

Rang Samsung, no stock, all sold at massively higher cost as their demand tripled this week.

k1llah3rtz · 20 Oct 2011 at 14:18

ffs!....

of course this gets posted right after the 3TB HGST offer disappears.... :mad:

panyan · 20 Oct 2011 at 14:24

Gibbo said:
Prices are set to double / triple from what they were a couple of weeks ago by end of this month. Due to mass shortages until next year.

TRIPLE?! WOW - did not expect that much of a jump!

Scon · 20 Oct 2011 at 14:26

k1llah3rtz said:
of course this gets posted right after the 3TB HGST offer disappears....

your sig is too big.

k1llah3rtz · 20 Oct 2011 at 14:29

or the box too small

Martini1991 · 20 Oct 2011 at 14:31

I'd just bought my 2TB last night for 66 quid and felt even that was expensive