Normal prices ever again?

ubersonic · 15 Apr 2013 at 11:57

After the big jump in prices of HDD's following the floods I remember seeing all the doomsayers talk about how prices would never return to normal and to be honest I didn't believe it, but its been quite a long time now and the cheapest 1TB drive is still 1.5x what they were before the floods, is there really no light at the end of the tunnel?

Raymond Lin · 15 Apr 2013 at 12:05

You can get a 4TB drive for about £160... That works out £40 per TB.

Good value no?

rpstewart · 15 Apr 2013 at 12:09

Raymond Lin said:
You can get a 4TB drive for about £160... That works out £40 per TB.

Good value no?

Yes! Some of us remember paying £40 per GB!

Scotteh · 15 Apr 2013 at 12:22

Yeah higher capacity drives are typically about the old values (£/TB), just bought a 3TB drive for £90 last week.

What prices were they prior to floods

I always remember it about about £45 for a 1TB barracuda

ubersonic · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:10

Scotteh said:
What prices were they prior to floods

Before the floods it was about £30 for a 1TB drive (exc VAT) compared to £45 (ex VAT) now (using exc VAT prices as VAT has gone up since then).

rpstewart said:
Yes! Some of us remember paying £40 per GB!

I remember paying more than that per MB /shudder.

Scotteh · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:26

So to an extent its about right considering there's higher capacity now

although ocuk seems to be more expensive

4TB seems to be about £125 ex vat (£41.67/TB)
3TB seems to be about £86.66 ex vat (£28.89/TB) (based on ocuks current; barracuda £81.66, toshiba £87, wd green £92)
2TB seems to be about £62.49 ex vat (£31.25/TB) (based on ocuks current; barracuda £61.66, wd green £61.66 wd green £64.16)

Somnambulist · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:35

Scotteh said:
Yeah higher capacity drives are typically about the old values (£/TB), just bought a 3TB drive for £90 last week.

What prices were they prior to floods

I always remember it about about £45 for a 1TB barracuda

You could get 2TB drives for like £45 at one point - I remember being about to buy 6 of them for my HP Microserver and waiting for pay day, and by the time I got paid they'd basically tripled in price.

Sin_Chase · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:41

This, again?!

HDD prices used to be cheap, they went up in price drastically after the flooding, they have normalised again now.

Not sure why everyone gets the idea storage is muchos expensive now and it's supposed to go back to 'normal'.

Jono8 · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:44

Somnambulist said:
You could get 2TB drives for like £45 at one point - I remember being about to buy 6 of them for my HP Microserver and waiting for pay day, and by the time I got paid they'd basically tripled in price.

2TB drives for £45?? I don't remember that.

Scotteh · 15 Apr 2013 at 13:47

Jono8 said:
2TB drives for £45?? I don't remember that.

Neither do I, I remember buying a Barracuda 1TB for £45 at about september 2011 before the floods hit

ubersonic · 15 Apr 2013 at 14:46

Sin_Chase said:
HDD prices used to be cheap, they went up in price drastically after the flooding, they have normalised again now.

Not sure why everyone gets the idea storage is muchos expensive now and it's supposed to go back to 'normal'.

Just because prices seem to have 'normalised' at a high level doesn't mean their back to 'normal', a 1TB drive costing 1.5x what it did three years ago despite 1TB being a low end size now (with 500GB the basic and 3/4TB the top end) as opposed to the mid ranged size it was then (when 250GB was basic and 1.5/2TB the top end).

StonedPenguin · 15 Apr 2013 at 14:55

Bought 4 Samsung F1 1TB's for £32 each brand new, 2 weeks before the flood.

panyan · 15 Apr 2013 at 15:04

August 2011 I bought 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 3.5" SATA III Hard Drive for £35.99

So by that estimate 2TB should be ~£70
So by that estimate 3TB should be ~£90

So thats about right to todays prices no?

Scotteh · 15 Apr 2013 at 15:11

Basically yeah, competitors have hard drives quite a bit lower than ocuk