Hard Drivers Super Expensive now why?

Tuexnovia

Tuexnovia

Tuexnovia

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Hi guys I remember I bought two Samsung F3 1GB each, to make my raid0, like 9 month ago and I spend 75 Pounds and now it cost like 80 each... Why?

Should I wait to to get them cheaper or what? THANKS...

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raid 0 and high performance computing are not for you if a £5 price increase on an item over 9 months is an issue (especially if that makes it super expensive for you)
 
Easy, move over to SSD and it will feel like value for money as they are coming down a lot in price to under £130 for 240gb now. Just grab one a month like me and you'll have storage in no time.
 
bemaniac said:
Easy, move over to SSD and it will feel like value for money as they are coming down a lot in price to under £130 for 240gb now. Just grab one a month like me and you'll have storage in no time.
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That's ridiculous logic, £130 for 240gb SSD? I can get a 3tb HDD for that even now. Buy one once and you've got storage for ages, instead of spending £130 a month on SSDs...

I'm waiting for the prices to drop, I built a server at precisely the wrong moment, so for now it's running EXSI from a 40gb IDE drive and has a 120gb IDE drive for the VMs to live on. One day I shall buy an SSD or two for it and a load of hard drives, but not until hard drive prices drop significantly! (£30 per tb is my limit, won't pay more than that).
 
Muel said:
but not until hard drive prices drop significantly! (£30 per tb is my limit, won't pay more than that).
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I would say you are going to be waitng a very long time, check out the other threads with regards to mech Hdd prices and the price increases since the floods in Asia.
 
Yep I've been tracking progress since the floods happened, but the factories have been back up and running fine for some time I believe, the prices are high for one reason, they're being held high. If demand drops, so will the prices, so I'm holding out. I'm managing on 2tb just fine, honest...
 
Muel said:
Yep I've been tracking progress since the floods happened, but the factories have been back up and running fine for some time I believe, the prices are high for one reason, they're being held high. If demand drops, so will the prices, so I'm holding out. I'm managing on 2tb just fine, honest...
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But are all the factories that closed back up an running? The pre-flood low low prices were probably in part due to over production and companies dumping products at whatever price they could get. Once major part of production was lost in flood then prices clearly rose but then also the manufacturers (and in this period this has effectively consolidated into 2 companies) may have only brought back up the production to meet current demand.

Anyway, as I've said before, I juts bought a 2TB disk for about the same price that 20 years ago I paid for a 40MB disk!
 
That's what I've read, could easily be wrong. I heard nothing about over production though.

Fact is if they keep the prices high, people still need to buy hard drives so if it's worth extra profit to keep them inflated, then that's what they'll do, because people need to buy them.

I don't need them yet, I just want them. :P
 
Muel said:
Yep I've been tracking progress since the floods happened, but the factories have been back up and running fine for some time I believe, the prices are high for one reason, they're being held high. If demand drops, so will the prices, so I'm holding out. I'm managing on 2tb just fine, honest...
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Last I read about this was some bull**** reason about "3 year contracts" or some nonsense.

It's obviously rigged now that the market is effectively down to 3 manufacturers, 2 for consumers.
 
They did go stupidly cheap, at one point I think I paid £48 for a 2tb drive. Managed to snag 2x 2tb drives at £58 each before they shot up to £200 odd!
 
Surveyor said:
£75 for two I would imagine.
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NO you can't imagine if you don't know what is a F3 samsung man. the fastest 9 month a go, and a raid0 of those is just 200Mb sec. LOL

Muel said:
Yep I've been tracking progress since the floods happened, but the factories have been back up and running fine for some time I believe, the prices are high for one reason, they're being held high. If demand drops, so will the prices, so I'm holding out. I'm managing on 2tb just fine, honest...
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OK just waiting what can I do? I don't want to spend 80 paounds now for 1 GB. I'll just wait...
 
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Tuexnovia said:
NO you can't imagine if you don't know what is a F3 samsung man. the fastest 9 month a go, and a raid0 of those is just 200Mb sec. LOL
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If you paid £75 each 9 months ago then you missed the boat and you must have bought after the price hikes.

I know enough about the 1TB Samsung F3 as I own 8 of them.

I was lucky enough to buy mine for near enough half the price you paid.


Tuexnovia said:
OK just waiting what can I do? I don't want to spend 80 paounds now for 1 GB. I'll just wait...
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They're only £68 at OcUK.

If I was buying a 1TB drive now though I'd be buying the 7200RPM Seagate at £66.
 
i think you mean TB not GB unless there was some blackhole timetraveling disaster too
rly they are coming down, the 3tb drives almost back to what they were

was hoping the 4tb ones would come in and fix it all but they expensive as hell :(
 
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