Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket

Discussion in 'Technology' started by cmdrmonkey, Oct 27, 2011.

  1. #1 cmdrmonkey, Oct 27, 2011
    The flooding in Thailand has resulted in ridiculously inflated HDD prices. They've doubled or trippled in most cases. Check out newegg. A 1TB WD Caviar Black drive which used to be like $60, is now going for around $160. It's like we've stepped into a time machine and gone back 6 or 7 years to when HDDs were expensive.

    http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/flooding-in-thailand-could-see-hard-drive-prices-skyrocket-20111019/
     
  2. #2 Phisix, Oct 27, 2011
    That island is hell for natural disasters.
     
  3. #3 monsly, Oct 27, 2011
    Thailand's an island? TO WIKIPEDIA...
     
  4. #4 khaid, Oct 27, 2011
    Indeed. I'm glad I got my 3TB external before this.
     
  5. #5 cmdrmonkey, Oct 27, 2011
    He's thinking of Taiwan.
     
  6. #6 monsly, Oct 27, 2011
    Or the Isle of Wight. Now THAT'S an island.

    A shit one.
     
  7. #7 knowname, Oct 27, 2011
    I was looking at ssd prices and their down to nearly 1.50 per gigabyte, steadily dropping as usual. Maybe this will catch up to them as well, I doubt their demand is as big. but it hadn't yet./
     
  8. #8 bfun, Oct 27, 2011
    Great. I bet my hard drive is going to fail at any moment.
     
  9. #9 khaid, Oct 27, 2011
    I know you meant gigabyte but I'm still waiting for 256GB ssd drives to get to a nice reasonable price. :(

    it should be affordable by my next upgrade period. which is still a whiles away. my i5 lynnfield and radeon 4870 1gb still holding strong.
     
  10. #10 bfun, Oct 27, 2011
    My 96GB SSD is tiny but I'd still hate to go back to a regular hard drive. SSDs are really the only way to get perceivable performance increases out of a PC these days.
     
  11. #11 khaid, Oct 27, 2011
    indeed, luckily I have 2 Samsung f3's in a raid stripe to help with load times.

    SOON
     
  12. #12 AKS, Oct 27, 2011
    This cost inflation works out for me. It helps me put off the bother and expense of switching to an SSD.