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

kmufc77 · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:31

Been looking at gettting a 3TB drive for a few months now,its my Bday on sunday and i was going to use some Bday money to get a drive,not now at those prices.

Cookeh · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:32

Thanks for the heads up.

Only got 160GB of storage, desperately need some more - just waiting on getting paid...

JasonM · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:40

If any help I have a cupboard full of old Amiga 3.5" floppy disks, should help if we get really desperate, contact me for best price

starkill3r · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:40

jusr got an rma 2tb back from seagate what has literally just run out of warranty! lucky timing, still got a few laptop satas lying about though so its not all bad, and my ssd is in warranty for 3 years.

Mr Krugga · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:40

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Luckily I got my Crucial C300 128GB for something like £145 some 8 months ago, a Samsung F4 2TB for £52.50 two months ago from you guys and my trustworthy F3 1TB a couple of years ago.

Nothing to worry about if you ask me.

starkill3r · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:42

just noticed the msg in my sig regarding size lol are you sure? the 3 posts above mine have got biggers sigs that i had.

k1llah3rtz · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:00

lol - had mine readjusted as well.

So are we holding out for OcUK to make a one-time-only special deal on 3TB disks... ???

Nevakonaza · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:25

Shamikebab said:
Noooooo, think of the pron!

As long as we have the tinternet were going to be just fine.

I cant see HDD prices get too expensive though,People just wont buy them...weird considering SSDs were so expensive yet now they are so cheap and HDDs are going up!

Uther · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:25

Very happy that I got my F3 500gb a couple of weeks ago for £30!

#Chri5# · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:35

Word from one our of trade distributors:

At the moment we, cannot quote, ship or backorder any hard drive from any vendor, the stock has been frozen by the vendors because of the flooding issues in Thailand which has put the products into global constraint.

Fun, fun, fun

realscot · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:48

time to buy a spindle of blank dvd's and get burning then.

Tarqy · 20 Oct 2011 at 19:36

Bah, guess getting a few more drives for the micro server is out of the window for the time being then

Lord Alibaski · 20 Oct 2011 at 19:59

I've had 3 samsung F4's from here 1st 2 were purchased last september they cost me £169.98, 3rd was in december that cost me £58.74.

So I've just grabbed 2 sammys @ £62 each from my local pc shop, which I still think is a decent price.

Redmint · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:01

Cheers for the heads up guys, nabbed a couple of cheap drives before the prices get any worse.

Grimley · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:08

Ordered mine now as I have planned a build for late next month. Thanks.

Alexrose1uk · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:10

Typically this comes fairly close to me building a new system. Guess it's all the more reason to opt for a slightly larger SSD, cheers for the warnings. You never know, perhaps this'll persuade a few of the SSD manufacturers to do some good deals to try and glean higher sales than usual due to the increased HDD prices.

Glad I got my extra 2TB for my media machine a month ago though.

nitram100 · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:25

Glad I picked up my samsung f3 when it was on offer! Now I need to pickup a cheapish 1tb external!

norm · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:41

This is crazy, because I've seen deals (few weeks ago) where people having been buying 1TB external hard disks from Supermarkets at like <20 quid each.

GTO656 · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:43

What are the cheapest prices for samsung F3 1 TB?

Jono8 · 20 Oct 2011 at 20:45

norm said:
This is crazy, because I've seen deals (few weeks ago) where people having been buying 1TB external hard disks from Supermarkets at like <20 quid each.

What?? where?