Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives

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  1. Posts : 564
    Windows 8 Pro
       #220

    Wow just came back from premier computer & accessories market.The prices of HDD have nearly doubled.Glad i purchased 500 GB external HDD six months ago.
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  2. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #221

    Nearly doubled?!?
    A 1tb disk here in the north east of England has risen from £43 to a whopping £99. And I was about too build a server at home using two of these for a business I am starting up. Think I'll wait a while... a good while by the looks...
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  3. Posts : 880
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #222

    seekermeister said:
    For someone in dire need of a medium sized internal drive, this might help, until the prices go back down:

    Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB Hard Drive - 5900RPM, 32MB Cache, SATA-3G at TigerDirect.com
    Thanks sm for the tip on this drive. Mine was $85 shipped, not bad at all. And the drive is fine for my purpose (WHS2011). Made in China btw.

    Funny thing about the packaging--TigerDirect shipped it in a big box, but with just a little paper thrown-in it and not even wrapped around the retail package (one of those awful plastic things that can't be taken-apart without completely destroying it). But the drive is quiet and hopefully it will last.

    Thanks again.
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  4. Posts : 208
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit, Linux Mint Julia, in dual boot mode
       #223

    lehnerus2000 said:
    George Orwell's 1984, the politician's how-to guide.

    Wasn't that the book that Amazon obliterated from people's e-books?

    Really? Why would they do that? e-Books seem so handy....... to edit. No need to
    tear out a few pages, then reprint and distribute them by the thousands.
    I'll have to have a look whether Orwell also foresaw that trick. He probably did.
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  5. Posts : 11,424
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64
       #224

    Does anyone see as production is upped in other un-effected HDD production areas and when the water damage is corrected a glut of production producing a huge fall in hard drive costs? To me this seems logical effect down the road !
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  6. Posts : 208
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit, Linux Mint Julia, in dual boot mode
       #225

    linnemeyerhere said:
    Does anyone see as production is upped in other un-effected HDD production areas and when the water damage is corrected a glut of production producing a huge fall in hard drive costs? To me this seems logical effect down the road !
    That would only be possible if some production lines would run below capacity and could be turned up in a few days. If that would be true they would have already increased production some time ago. Installing new facilities would be too much of a risk (certainly in view of the higher price now obtained with existing facilities and the drop in price once the other - damaged - facilities are running again) and it would take too much time, imo. But you can only make an educated guess if you are right in the middle of it; everything else is speculation.
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  7. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #226

    To me the surest sign that mechanicals will fall drastically in price at least once more if not twice more is the constant improvement in the ssd department. Both price and performance are skyrocketing.
    People will likely continue to lean on mechanicals for large storage at least for the time being though.
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  8. Posts : 670
    Windows 7 Pro 64bit build 7601 SP1
       #227

    Few months ago I bought 1 TB hdd for about $90 and I last saw on Newegg it was $209 now. Holy Crap! Glad I bought it then.
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  9. Posts : 1,846
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64, & Mac OS X 10.9.2
       #228

    they are starting to fall somewhat. 1tb drives on ebuyer.com are below £100 now, and some around £89 mark.
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  10. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #229

    badger906 said:
    they are starting to fall somewhat. 1tb drives on ebuyer.com are below £100 now, and some around £89 mark.
    Well while they have a legitimate reason for the price hike.
    I think it's in their best interest to trim it down to the absolute minimum hike in order to move inventory through the holidays here.
    This is the worst time of year this could have possibly happened.

    I myself actually wound up upgrading to my first ssd on my new build instead of buying a large additional mechanical for storage because it was cheaper.
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