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

dlockers · 27 Oct 2011 at 19:56

SSD's are so tempting now...

locrieth · 28 Oct 2011 at 00:36

1.5tb drives are back up to the price I paid for them in march last year :O

Numian · 28 Oct 2011 at 01:31

I think my SSD trial will be happening sooner than I had originally intended...

dmxdex2020 · 28 Oct 2011 at 01:47

What a disgrace.

hedgey · 28 Oct 2011 at 02:01

ocuk is obviously not selling the drives at the margin they bought them at. they raised the prices like everyone else.

LeJosh · 28 Oct 2011 at 02:28

Wow, those prices are horrendous!

I hope they come down when I look at upgrading my pc in the upcoming months...

bhavv · 28 Oct 2011 at 07:09

....

Why did I already sell my 2 Tb Barracuda for £55 when I got my F4s ???? /doh!

phatboy · 28 Oct 2011 at 08:08

actually starting to make SSD look the sensible choice aint it!....prices are holding ok on them atm.....thought that they would have shot up in sympathy

Emlyn_Dewar · 28 Oct 2011 at 08:36

The rocketing price of the 1tb Western Digital Green drive!
I don't think I paid anything near that for mine 2 years ago...

Think I'll stick to using my external drives and maybe look into getting a bigger SSD.

dlockers · 28 Oct 2011 at 08:43

I wonder how much sales have declined? Will be interesting to see a monthly report if possible.

Confused Stu · 28 Oct 2011 at 08:47

hedgey said:
ocuk is obviously not selling the drives at the margin they bought them at. they raised the prices like everyone else.

To be fair, when the prices finally start coming down again, OcUK will have to drop their prices to remain competitive too. This means any HDDs they had in stock when the price went up they will make more profit on, but when prices drop they will end up making a much smaller margin/loss on those they hold in stock at that time. It will even itself out over time, and OcUK have to stay in step with the industry or they will end up losing out.

DrBombcrater · 28 Oct 2011 at 09:09

dLockers said:
I wonder how much sales have declined? Will be interesting to see a monthly report if possible.

From what I've heard most places are seeing a steep rise in sales, presumably from people buying now in anticipation prices will rise even further.

Gibbo · 28 Oct 2011 at 10:38

DrBombcrater said:
From what I've heard most places are seeing a steep rise in sales, presumably from people buying now in anticipation prices will rise even further.

Yes a lot of panick buying, we've even had some cheeky traders trying to buy 100+ at a time from us, but we simply just stop the orders.

Westyfield2 · 28 Oct 2011 at 10:47

DrBombcrater said:
From what I've heard most places are seeing a steep rise in sales, presumably from people buying now in anticipation prices will rise even further.

Exactly.

It's not going to result in more hard drives sold, just that instead of buying them in 2 months time people are buying them now.

GTO656 · 28 Oct 2011 at 12:13

Hehe Im definately one that is panic-buying ordered yesterday so much relieved for my new system.

Miidget · 28 Oct 2011 at 12:21

The samsung f3 just dropped £10 in price from when i looked yesterday i think, immediately set one on order

oli356 · 28 Oct 2011 at 12:26

Miidget said:
The samsung f3 just dropped £10 in price from when i looked yesterday i think, immediately set one on order

Has it? Its £100 now, thought it was 90 yesterday.

250GB is more expensive then what a 1TB was

GTO656 · 28 Oct 2011 at 12:29

The Hitachi drive 2TB I ordered yesterday at £70 went up to £100 today when I last checked.

koolpc · 28 Oct 2011 at 12:32

Retailers jumping on the band wagon and upping the prices to ridiculous amounts

rikky · 28 Oct 2011 at 17:14

Sales will be up over the last 10 days or so for sure - but in the coming months with those prices they will obviously drop off rather rapidly. I would expect to see the real business being done in the 2nd hand market until prices drop off as a lot of people realise those spare 2tb drives they bought for £50 a go are now worth double that!!