HDD price

[BlueScreen]

It's been half of the year since the flood on Thailand and HDD prices haven't gone down almost at all.

Do you happen to know how long it may take before we see significant changes in prices?

I was going to buy buy a new computer, but I don't really want to pay twice the price.

 

[Rastalovich]

Milking it, imo.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

where you've been looking? prices dropped almost 3 times from what they were, now you can actually buya 1tb within 80£ range unlike before where they were for over 200, dont expect ssds to be cheaper since they jsut came out and are worth what they are listed for

 

[dukeReinhardt]

apparently ssd prices are gonna get outrageously competitive some point in the near future, though i've only read a few sources for that info. as for hdd prices, they're defo using the flood as an excuse. it's been long enough, but they probably won't go back down until near the end of the year or something. in the meantime, i'd wait to jump on an ssd purchase if that's in your mind at all. there're already sub-£90 128gb drives out there, and not just old ssds. if you want to buy a hdd though, some places are setting acceptable prices; depending on where you look you can get decent 2tb drives for £90.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

So glad I bought 4 F3s just before the flood for £40 each, going to be using one in my main rig, one in a 8120 rig arriving May 9th, another in a second 8120 rig if there are still 8120s around by then, and a fourth in a shared ownership rig with someone later down the line which should involve folding on a 2600k while he's not gaming on it!

Floods were nonsense from the start, no other industry would just sit there and let their factories be submerged and stand there like lemons just watching, they could easily have moved it all to safe ground within a couple of days. You can't tell me they didn't know the place was going under beforehand.

Flash drives are quite cheap now, so I'd say if you don't need much storage just get a 16-32GB pen drive or SSD.

 

[BlueScreen]

where you've been looking? prices dropped almost 3 times from what they were, now you can actually buya 1tb within 80£ range unlike before where they were for over 200,

I didn not mention SSDs at all.

Are you serious 1TB HDDs were for 200£ ? I've never seen one so expensive.

Anyways I wanted to buy western digital 5002aalx. It's a nice 500gb HDD. I don't think I need bigger ones. Even this particular one will probably be too big for me

Before the flood it was for like 220 PLN. Now its 470. I am not going to pay twice the price for a damn HDD...

Seriously the flood might have been big, but anyone who sets up factories in Thailand and other places alike must know that some day it may just get flooded or other bad thing might happen to it.

Moreover the production must have been resumed by now.

So I really have no clue why the hell the prices are not going down.

It pisses me off because I wanted to buy a new PC, but like I said I am not going to spend so much money on HDD. I prefer to wait and spend saved money on better graphics card for example.

 

[dipzy]

Aria now and again have deals on the 2TB Seagate green drives for around £77 to £80, I've seen this happen a few times recently. The prices are still not what they use to be but are changing slowly, i'm thinking by end of 2012 or Q1 of 2013, we should see them somewhat similar to what they were before the flooding. I should have got a few drives myself but i didn't

I got a 4TB at start of the year for nothing, so it should last me hopefully for a few months

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I don't know what their prices were beforehand so can't compare, but does anyone know if SAS drives were affected by the flood? That would certainly flag up if consumers are being milked while businesses remain unaffected.

 

[hmmblah]

I don't know what their prices were beforehand so can't compare, but does anyone know if SAS drives were affected by the flood? That would certainly flag up if consumers are being milked while businesses remain unaffected.

SAS were affected as well. Dell wouldn't even sell any to me unless I bought a server to go with them. I had to buy the drives from another source (was upgrading a Dell server).

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

SAS were affected as well. Dell wouldn't even sell any to me unless I bought a server to go with them. I had to buy the drives from another source (was upgrading a Dell server).

What if someone's server had one drive in a RAID1 fail or something and needed another to get their system back online? - that's just stupid!

 

[Gothique Doll]

From articles I have read I have gathered that one of the reasons the price is remaining higher than pre floods is that the companies are using the money to build new factories in other locations, as well as repairing the damaged ones. Clean room standard manufacturing plants are not very mobile or cheap to build.

That and the fact that due to a couple of takeovers, there are now only two HDD manufacturers behind all the brands, Western Digital bought out Hitachi's HDD division and Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD division, both last year. There isn't much in the way of competition to push the prices back down at the moment and that might be the most important factor in the foreseeable future.