HDD Price have become INSANE!

[HAVOC]

Has anyone seen the HDD prices lately? They have been on the rise since October. I see that the same HDD's I bought back in July for $89 are now $199-$250. (WD 2 Terabyte Caviar BLK). Read a few reports that said most HDD's are up 150% in price. Also PC prices from major companies are up 20% because of cost of HDD's. Many sources saying that Thai plants are dry as well as Japan Flooding after the tsunami.

I wonder if this will cause a push towards SSD's and more product usually means lower pricing. Which is obviously the case with Less Product and higher pricing.

 

[patonb]

Dude, did you not have seen my post last month? The "offical" reason was due to the flooding in S.E Asia.

 

[office politics]

this site shows seagates ~ 100. I think you just gotta find a distributor with stocked (warehouse) inventory

SATA 2TB Hard / Removable Drives at Pricewatch - Lowest prices, Sales | Page 1

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Find a place that still has a good healthy stock left, or if you REALLY need a hard drive for storage purposes, look at 2.5 inch drives, I have noticed laptop drives are a lot cheaper usually compared to 3.5's. One thing is for certain, datacenters can't really use 2.5's in hot swaps because even with a tray, the drive doesn't line up with back planes. Which is very good for us, though now I am seeing companies make full on adapters for there backplanes so they can use 2.5's in their own hotswap bays...

 

[tj_extreme]

Has anyone seen the HDD prices lately? They have been on the rise since October. I see that the same HDD's I bought back in July for $89 are now $199-$250. (WD 2 Terabyte Caviar BLK). Read a few reports that said most HDD's are up 150% in price. Also PC prices from major companies are up 20% because of cost of HDD's. Many sources saying that Thai plants are dry as well as Japan Flooding after the tsunami.

I wonder if this will cause a push towards SSD's and more product usually means lower pricing. Which is obviously the case with Less Product and higher pricing.

Dude, you've been ninja'd by 75% of the internet.

 

[HAVOC]

Dude, did you not have seen my post last month? The "offical" reason was due to the flooding in S.E Asia.

DUDE! I did not. Sorry. I should have searched perhaps? Mods can nuke this thread if need be.

Dude, you've been ninja'd by 75% of the internet.

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[PP Mguire]

hehe.

 

[patonb]

However... Anyone notice SSDs are coming down? OCZ 120Gig for $129.99cdn
OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5IN SATA2 Indilinx Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD - OCZ Technology - OCZSSD2-1VTXPL120G
or for You Yankees
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[PP Mguire]

In case anyone was doubting me at all about their fixed prices and taking advantage of the situation, take a read here.

Seagate Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend Increase by 39%, Share Repurchase of $1 Bl - techPowerUp! Forums

39% increase in profit.....gee I wonder why.

 

[tj_extreme]

However... Anyone notice SSDs are coming down? OCZ 120Gig for $129.99cdn
OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5IN SATA2 Indilinx Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD - OCZ Technology - OCZSSD2-1VTXPL120G
or for You Yankees
NCIX US - Buy OCZSSD2-1VTXPL120G - OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5IN SATA2 Indilinx Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD - OCZ Technology - Great price and fast delivery

I got all excited when I saw this, then read that it was a SATA 2 drive. FML.