Go check out Newegg and look at the hard drive prices, it's ridiculous.
120 dollars for a 500 GB drive?! Like 6 months ago I bought a 1 TB drive for 80 dollars.
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Go check out Newegg and look at the hard drive prices, it's ridiculous.
120 dollars for a 500 GB drive?! Like 6 months ago I bought a 1 TB drive for 80 dollars.
I thought the price raise was just overseas?LordsLossNope, it happened here in the US as well I guess. Why the price raise though? :?
I don't know. I live in America so I'll just say it's either Obama or the terrorists...that seems to be the normal response to anything where I live lol (I live in the South)
EDIT: Check out this thread http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/28923001/problem-in-thailand-regarding-hdds?tag=topics%3Btitle
[QUOTE="LordsLoss"]I thought the price raise was just overseas?Guppy507Nope, it happened here in the US as well I guess. Why the price raise though? :?
Flooding in Thailand.
These prices will probably never go down once they realize how beneficial it is for them to keep them, and how easy it was to justify the price increase.
Buying a used hard drive is just asking for trouble.Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
DeViLzzz
Interesting, I was watching Tekzilla on Revision3.com yesterday, and they were talking about the HDD price increase due to the flooding in Thailand. They hinted at the idea of Intel, being all big and powerful it is, could pull something crazy and release high capacity SSDs at heavily reduced prices (even at losses) in order to take advantage of the HDD price hikes. Yes, while HDDs would still be drastically cheaper per GB, it could put a dent in the sales of the old tech, while Intel could take out other players in SSD production. It would also increase the foothold of SSDs in the laptop market, as they can drastically improve the performance of a computer while of course benefiting power usage performance.These prices will probably never go down once they realize how beneficial it is for them to keep them, and how easy it was to justify the price increase.
SickStench
I have heard from very reliable sources that the prices will not go down until February. They have been going up by about 5-10 dollars a day. One of my friends own a technician company and he is building computers and servers for a University. Right now his quotes only last 24hrs since the price of each unit with an HDD in it keep going up every day on his end. He said it will be until February for the prices to go down. It also sucks for people building a computer now.
[QUOTE="DeViLzzz"]Buying a used hard drive is just asking for trouble. I'd rather pay double for a new HDD, than half for a used one.Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
gmaster456
Interesting, I was watching Tekzilla on Revision3.com yesterday, and they were talking about the HDD price increase due to the flooding in Thailand. They hinted at the idea of Intel, being all big and powerful it is, could pull something crazy and release high capacity SSDs at heavily reduced prices (even at losses) in order to take advantage of the HDD price hikes. Yes, while HDDs would still be drastically cheaper per GB, it could put a dent in the sales of the old tech, while Intel could take out other players in SSD production. It would also increase the foothold of SSDs in the laptop market, as they can drastically improve the performance of a computer while of course benefiting power usage performance.PC_Otter
That is literally the exact opposite of what Intel wants to do. Their focus is on the enterprise market since the margins are so much better -- the last thing you'd do to maintain those fat profit margins is flood the market with cheap SSD 320s and 510s. I could see someone on the consumer side like OCZ, Crucial or Samsung take the plunge, though.
That's also the reason why HDD prices won't stay high: consumer hardware is a commodity market. If your competitors are selling a near-as-makes-no-difference identical product, short of forming a cartel there's no way to raise your prices and expect consumers to still buy your product.
Holy s***! I knew nothing about this!
3 months ago, the cheapest hard drive on ebyuer was ~£20.
Now, it's £59, and that's for a recertified Hitachi! Back then, that was enough for a 1TB WD Caviar Black!
The hell is going on :o
[QUOTE="DeViLzzz"]Buying a used hard drive is just asking for trouble.Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
gmaster456
"cool i bought a used hard drive for $30!"
2 weeks later...
"SMART: SATA 4 Status fatal: Back up and replace.
O.O
It's not going to be a on a regular basis. It just so happens there's a flood in Thailand. Surely, you don't think this...Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
DeViLzzz
according fudzilla In Europe the price of Western Digital Caviar Green 2000GB, 64MB Cache, SATA II (WD20EARS) went from € 67 on October 22nd to roughly €150 euro for a drive with shipping. It is certain that HDD prices will go down, but it might take a few months before supply stabilizes and the prices go down reasonable levels, i.e. a pretty affordable €67 for a 2 TB drive.
Buying a used spinning-platter drive is a bad idea. Hopefully the prices drop soon, I was kinda in the market for another TB drive...Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
DeViLzzz
I was about to buy another 1TB HDD but the price more than doubled here in the UK.... I was going to get a 1TB Western Digital 6Gb/s that I got with my current rig about 3-4months ago for around £60 on sale and now the same drive on the same site is £169.
[QUOTE="DeViLzzz"]Buying a used spinning-platter drive is a bad idea. Hopefully the prices drop soon, I was kinda in the market for another TB drive... Its about as bad an idea as buying a used car, hard drives made in the last 10 years are seriously reliable but obviously there will be failures due to their being billions of them. I don't see the issue with buying a used drive as long as the ad on whatever site you say states that it's in perfect working order. I still got my old 80Gb from a PC i bought years ago in my server, works great.Is it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ?
Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
Guppy507
Thats a rip off, whoever is selling that at £169 is just down right milking it, scan.co.uk has the same thing for £99(not that it matters even that is a too much).I was about to buy another 1TB HDD but the price more than doubled here in the UK.... I was going to get a 1TB Western Digital 6Gb/s that I got with my current rig about 3-4months ago for around £60 on sale and now the same drive on the same site is £169.
Grey_Eyed_Elf
[QUOTE="Grey_Eyed_Elf"]Thats a rip off, whoever is selling that at £169 is just down right milking it, scan.co.uk has the same thing for £99(not that it matters even that is a too much).I was about to buy another 1TB HDD but the price more than doubled here in the UK.... I was going to get a 1TB Western Digital 6Gb/s that I got with my current rig about 3-4months ago for around £60 on sale and now the same drive on the same site is £169.
JohnF111
No they aren't... Its £147 on Scan.
http://www.techspot.com/news/46128-flooding-causes-spike-in-hdd-prices-asus-might-run-out-this-month.html
*just learns of this, checks Newegg to see if the prices are true* HOLY CRAP. You guys weren't kidding. Good thing I got my two Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJs for $50 each, and my Seagate 2 TB drive for $70. (All brand new, of course.) I just hope the prices go back down eventually and none of these drives fail.NamelessPlayer
Same here...I bought several of the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD when Newegg had them on sale for $50 bucks last month. Now I wish I had bought more. This reminds me of when the memory prices were cheap, then went up before coming back down again. I hope when this all gets sorted out it may have an effect on SSD prices becoming cheaper along with HDD prices dropping back down to what they were....but for now can you say Sticker Shock !
I also read (think it was on Tom's Hardware) how this will have an increased price effect on tablets and netbooks ...but I'll have to go back and double check that.
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[QUOTE="superclocked"]Nice SSD's (500MB/s read) are only about $100 now. So for me, it's just an excuse to get something better...C_RuleThat's only get you like 60GB. Waste of time and money, imo.I guess it all depends on the user really. I want speedy load times. Even little programs take too long to load on these old hdd's, since I have to wait for the hdd to spin up. I'm going to use these for storage and pickup a Samsung SSD when the price is right...
[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="superclocked"]Nice SSD's (500MB/s read) are only about $100 now. So for me, it's just an excuse to get something better...superclockedThat's only get you like 60GB. Waste of time and money, imo.I guess it all depends on the user really. I want speedy load times. Even little programs take too long to load on these old hdd's, since I have to wait for the hdd to spin up. I'm going to use these for storage and pickup a Samsung SSD when the price is right... But at least get something that will comfortably fit Windows and your programs. I'm considering getting an SSD for my next build, as prices have come down a bit. If I do get one, it'll be a 120GB, which I think is a fair balance between capacity and cost.
might as well buy a used cheese pizzaIs it really hard for people to just buy some used hard drives from a store locally or from people locally in your classified ads ? Do it and don't buy these drives at inflated prices so we are not paying this on regular basis in the future.
DeViLzzz
[QUOTE="PC_Otter"]Interesting, I was watching Tekzilla on Revision3.com yesterday, and they were talking about the HDD price increase due to the flooding in Thailand. They hinted at the idea of Intel, being all big and powerful it is, could pull something crazy and release high capacity SSDs at heavily reduced prices (even at losses) in order to take advantage of the HDD price hikes. Yes, while HDDs would still be drastically cheaper per GB, it could put a dent in the sales of the old tech, while Intel could take out other players in SSD production. It would also increase the foothold of SSDs in the laptop market, as they can drastically improve the performance of a computer while of course benefiting power usage performance.PBSnipes
That is literally the exact opposite of what Intel wants to do. Their focus is on the enterprise market since the margins are so much better -- the last thing you'd do to maintain those fat profit margins is flood the market with cheap SSD 320s and 510s. I could see someone on the consumer side like OCZ, Crucial or Samsung take the plunge, though.
That's also the reason why HDD prices won't stay high: consumer hardware is a commodity market. If your competitors are selling a near-as-makes-no-difference identical product, short of forming a cartel there's no way to raise your prices and expect consumers to still buy your product.
I didn't think of the enterprise issue, but the idea of killing your opponents in the desktop market struck me as a bad idea as lawsuits over monopolistic practices would start coming in. Anyways, are not the SSDs Intel produces and sells kind of, you know "meh"? If that's the case, that would be bad for us consumers, if Intel killed off the quality SSD makers by marketing cheap alternatives.Please Log In to post.
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