Prices gone up?

toon_mad · 7 Jun 2012 at 14:58

I ordered a 1TB Sata Hard drive from Overclockers September last year for about £34 or so, now the cheapest I can see is about £79.99

Will prices be dropping again anytime soon?

cwhitehead · 7 Jun 2012 at 15:11

They have slowly started to but from doing work importing for a few computer companies no time soon.

toon_mad · 7 Jun 2012 at 19:47

cwhitehead said:
They have slowly started to but from doing work importing for a few computer companies no time soon.

Nothing suprises me anymore, one month everything seems really cheap the next month they are double

The1nonly1 · 7 Jun 2012 at 19:52

This was due to the floods in Thailand last year

Nuclear Fusion · 7 Jun 2012 at 20:04

The1nonly1 said:
This was due to the floods in Thailand last year

This, and manufacturers are in no hurry to lower prices unfortunately

MatsyLR · 7 Jun 2012 at 20:07

Just wait, it will take awhile but they will eventually go down again.

HarryPainful · 7 Jun 2012 at 20:12

The prices are much lower than a couple of months ago if you look around.

Muel · 7 Jun 2012 at 20:44

You can look as hard as you like, the prices are still silly. The manufacturers are still raking in while people are willing to pay.

It's still around £100 for a 2tb drive, which is almost double what they were. Things are supposed to progress, but they aren't. My face is sad.

crinkleshoes · 7 Jun 2012 at 20:51

Prices have dropped tremendously since the hike.

For a while, it was a struggle to source a 1TB hard drive for less than £120!

Chojin · 7 Jun 2012 at 22:00

The last hard drive I bought was a 2TB Samsung in January 2011 for £53. Read it and weep.

Personally I won't buy another until they reach these kind of levels, and at the rate SSDs are dropping I probably won't need to buy a mechanical drive again.

wkingsnorth · 7 Jun 2012 at 22:22

Floods in Thailand gave manufacturers an excuse to raise prices, despite the fact that it only costs them something tiny like £2.50 per HDD or something, and they aren't in a hurry to lower the prices

Justintime · 8 Jun 2012 at 01:33

Not sure on that but the warranty slashing is definetly not on.

ubersonic · 8 Jun 2012 at 08:53

A few weeks after prices soared back when it was well over £100 for a 2TB drive I bought a bunch from Comet for £70 each on offer, I felt like I was robbing them