Soldato
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SSD prices aren't/shouldn't be affected, this is mechanical HDDs.
Hard Drive Pricing going up at an alarming rate!!!!
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I remember when 4Mb RAM cost £160, a Soundblaster card with 2x CD-ROM cost £200 and all this were fields (where is the nostaglia smiley?)
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and the awe32 was the worlds most expensive soundcard.. especially if you wanted to add a couple of MB ram to it 
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I have a 9.8 GB Micropolis Tomahawk on my desk as a paperweight... originally sold in the late nineties for around £1500 IIRC. It still works, but it's absolutely the noisiest drive I've ever heard; when it's powered on it sounds like a jet engine spooling up.
The price of mechanicals going up makes SSD drives more attractive to consumers, pushing the price of them up as well.
Wow hadn't realised internal storage had dropped so cheap, to be fair mechanical storage has been well underpriced for a while, traditionally you were talking around a ton for a 'large' drive (relative to the time of purchase), now 2TB is still well under that. If prices are only going to be problematic until March that's not too bad, a far cry from the RAM fiascos we've seen in years gone by.
As for people saying this is going to stop them building a new PC, I'd say if an extra £20 or whatever is going to block you from building then there's an argument to suggest maybe it was an extravagance in the first place
As for people saying this is going to stop them building a new PC, I'd say if an extra £20 or whatever is going to block you from building then there's an argument to suggest maybe it was an extravagance in the first place
Indeed some people may have grabbed a bargain and then cash in. Q6600 is a good example, they were priced as low as £110 not long after launch and then the price crept up to around £150 even months later so people could sell secondhand ones for a small profit. I don't see anything wrong with that, if you are smart enough to spot a good value piece of kit that subsequently rises in value then good luck to you.
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Well, that Factory is without doubt....
Shut
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/22/world-hard-drive-shortage-predicted-floodi/
Shut
http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/22/world-hard-drive-shortage-predicted-floodi/
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well, thats a relief. was looking at upgrading to 2tb more storage at christmas but but the bullet early and got 2 1tb F1s on the MM for £60 though hopefully used drive prices will stay the same :|
though hopefully used drive prices will stay the same :|Just a meer spill. Some bounty will soak that up
I don't see how chocolate will help there but a few rolls of Plenty might
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We need our salary increasing to £50 extra a month !
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Ouch; WD building got pwnt.
