Hard Drive price increases

dipzy

dipzy

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Due to recent floods in Thailand, the Seagate and Western Digital factories have been flooded and production of drives have halted their. Many online shops have risen there prices quite high.

1TB Samsung F3 was about £46 or so,now it costs £65 on ebuyer and 2TB's were around the £56 - £60 mark, now they are around £80 on ebuyer.

On facebook, scan have said this issue could get resolved by end of Jan 2012 or later. They also they may introduce a one per customer' thing with hard drives

I hope i can find some for cheap, or it looks like many are in for a long wait for the prices to return to normal
 
Just saw a 2TB WD caviar black for £141
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Truthfully, as much as the prices increase in mechanical HDDs, they're still quite reasonable and very affordable. It's not like in the old days where HDDs cost similar to what a low cap SSD would cost. So, it's not bad at all.
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CocaCola said:
Truthfully, as much as the prices increase in mechanical HDDs, they're still quite reasonable and very affordable. It's not like in the old days where HDDs cost similar to what a low cap SSD would cost. So, it's not bad at all.
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That is true, I suppose when you look at the capacity you are getting now for the current price as opposed to back in the days it's not too bad
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In Norway, prizes are up 100-300% on hdd's
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Im so freaking glad i have all the disks i need for the next 5 years
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Its expensive here, because we got a really strong currency and we also have high taxes on import/sales. Its not always fun with this, but our system is good. Healthcare/education is almost free
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Azurite said:
Its expensive here, because we got a really strong currency and we also have high taxes on import/sales. Its not always fun with this, but our system is good. Healthcare/education is almost free
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In the UK healthcare is free education is aswell... until you get to university thats when they screw you over with £9000 a year fees
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prices have dramatically increased in central europe aswell. prices in belgium,germany etc have increased by up to 400 %. a few weeks ago a samsung f3 was about 40 eur and today i looked on the same website...

http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Samsung/HD103UJ_1_TB/3887/?

187 eur for a 1tb hard drive... Apperently it is because of the floods, so you UK guys shouldn't be too confident, you'll probably be concerned by this issue very soon. And in my case it is not a consequence of high hardware prices in general, prices are generally pretty low in my region.
 
Market forces and opportunism.

Retailers will exploit this as much as they would if only 100x GTX 580 graphic cards were made - total - in a quarter. The price would be well in excess of the mrrp.

The harddrives which can't be made or shipped, cannot be bought. The stocks currently are bought at old prices, assuming there's nothing coming from flooded distribution centers also.

So anything added onto the usual price is pandering to the customers demand. Supply really only comes into it in the sense that there isn't any.

Does make you think why they're also exploiting the price rises from manufacturers who aren't involved in the catastrophe.

Supply and demand hasn't arranged prices for years, it's "what can we get away with charging". Same goes for fuel, milk, bread, anything.
 
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