Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives

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  1. Posts : 1,846
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, & Mac OS X 10.9.2
       #120

    Lol I remember paying £40 for 40gb doesn't mean I still want to pay £1 per gb lol

    My first gb dimm or ram cost me £120, you can get 8gb dimms for half that lol
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  2. Posts : 8,398
    ultimate 64 sp1
       #121

    veering off topic, but recently whilst doing some (rare) tidying up, i came across an old receipt from my local small pc shop:

    Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives-64ram.jpg

    64 megs of ram for £60, back in 2000
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  3. Posts : 1,846
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, & Mac OS X 10.9.2
       #122

    My entire catelogue of pc parts is saved on ebuyer lol as its normally my one stop shop! Added it up the other month before I started my latest gaming rig, and I was at £4400 :) £1100 a year for pc stuff isn't to obsessive is it!?
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       #123

    I don't think that one answer fits everyone. It is a question that you will have to answer yourself.
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  5. Posts : 1,846
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, & Mac OS X 10.9.2
       #124

    Ok I'm starting to regret my bargain HDD post now lol, sat here at work thinking ill buy another, only for them to all be sold! note to self keep bargains too myself lol
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       #125

    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there
    Not sure what planet you are living on -- but at least in Europe you can get usb HDD drives VERY cheaply -- even PC World in the UK - not the cheapest place or store to buy stuff in but looking at the prices a 1 TB HDD is around 65 GBP / 90 USD.

    Cheers
    jimbo
    Well jimbo rare Earth when I last looked prices here in Oz reflect the prices in the first post my Seagate Barracuda has gone form $69 to $129
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       #126

    mickey megabyte said:
    veering off topic, but recently whilst doing some (rare) tidying up, i came across an old receipt from my local small pc shop:

    Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives-64ram.jpg

    64 megs of ram for £60, back in 2000
    And cheap at that, eh?
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  8. Posts : 8,398
    ultimate 64 sp1
       #127

    it wasn't a bad price at the time. of course, nowadays you can get about 12,000 megs for the same money.
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       #128

    ICit2lol said:
    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there
    Not sure what planet you are living on -- but at least in Europe you can get usb HDD drives VERY cheaply -- even PC World in the UK - not the cheapest place or store to buy stuff in but looking at the prices a 1 TB HDD is around 65 GBP / 90 USD.

    Cheers
    jimbo
    Well jimbo rare Earth when I last looked prices here in Oz reflect the prices in the first post my Seagate Barracuda has gone form $69 to $129

    Hi there
    I really like OZ but I don't like what's happening there at the moment -- I'm no smoker but trying to make all cigarette packs look the same with a Government defined font and no company logos says why people might be holding off doing business in OZ.

    Imagine this going slightly further - the govt might say -- it's illegal to use a HDD bigger than 100 GB on your PC or - horror of horrors -- beer will be sold with a white label on the can just saying "Beer --approved by the Govt" No Labels etc -- so the nice VB bitter you thought you were buying might be "Bud" or some other weak brand.

    I'm surprised a great free thinking independent country like 'OZ has got itself in this predicament.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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       #129

    jimbo45 said:
    ICit2lol said:
    jimbo45 said:
    Hi there
    Not sure what planet you are living on -- but at least in Europe you can get usb HDD drives VERY cheaply -- even PC World in the UK - not the cheapest place or store to buy stuff in but looking at the prices a 1 TB HDD is around 65 GBP / 90 USD.

    Cheers
    jimbo
    Well jimbo rare Earth when I last looked prices here in Oz reflect the prices in the first post my Seagate Barracuda has gone form $69 to $129

    Hi there
    I really like OZ but I don't like what's happening there at the moment -- I'm no smoker but trying to make all cigarette packs look the same with a Government defined font and no company logos says why people might be holding off doing business in OZ.

    Imagine this going slightly further - the govt might say -- it's illegal to use a HDD bigger than 100 GB on your PC or - horror of horrors -- beer will be sold with a white label on the can just saying "Beer --approved by the Govt" No Labels etc -- so the nice VB bitter you thought you were buying might be "Bud" or some other weak brand.

    I'm surprised a great free thinking independent country like 'OZ has got itself in this predicament.

    Cheers
    jimbo
    Hiyya jimbo mate it is all down to $'s and at the same time so bloody hypocritical too cigs and grog outrageously priced (not that it bothers me) and plain packing etc and all the health promotional stuff yet they still rake off the duties and taxes on them.

    Now it's the turn of carbon emissions all a bit of a joke really.
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