When did hard drive prices go through the roof?
10 January 2012, 07:36 PM
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When did hard drive prices go through the roof?
Just been looking for another 1TB drive to put in the NAS
I paid about £45 last august....just been looking at my local emporium..
almost double for the same size...
When did this 100% rise occur, or is this again a bit of cynical marketing on the back of the problems in china last year
Mart
I paid about £45 last august....just been looking at my local emporium..
almost double for the same size...
When did this 100% rise occur, or is this again a bit of cynical marketing on the back of the problems in china last year
Mart
10 January 2012, 07:54 PM
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prices and availability are slowing coming back to normal, here's an overview with what happened to each manufacturer
http://www.scan.co.uk/info/wd/page2
http://www.scan.co.uk/info/wd/page2
10 January 2012, 08:28 PM
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As above, its down to the Thailand floods. We had to react quickly when it happened otherwise we would have been unable to fulfil orders for $100K+ telecomms systems for the want of $300 disk drives. I suspect lots of companies had to do the same and this has driven the price up.
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11 January 2012, 12:56 AM
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SSD drives are manufactured at other locations than the regular HDD's, which got hit by the Thailand floods. That's why the availability is much better. Even if the large factories for regular (moving) HDD's are rebuilt and again ready for production, you still have to keep in mind that it takes about 130 different component manufacturing companies to build/assemble a Harddisk drive in the large factories. Most of these companies were also hit by the floods. 
That's why the situation is really bad and unfortunately lots of our customers have close to zero tolerance towards this situation. Sometimes I have the impression that all they care about is that they will receive their PC or notebooks in time. Shipping TAT's are more important than the tragedy of the individual families and workers in Thailand. That's a pretty sad fact and makes you wonder. There are speculations that the situation will become better sometime in the next 6 months as the 'order backlog' is so large. It is also likely that the quality of the HDD could suffer from putting so much pressure to the manufacturing componies to keep up the production for these quantities. I am sure that some Desktop/Notebook manufacturing companies won't care about the quality as long as they can deliver its orders in time and faster as the competition.
That's why the situation is really bad and unfortunately lots of our customers have close to zero tolerance towards this situation. Sometimes I have the impression that all they care about is that they will receive their PC or notebooks in time. Shipping TAT's are more important than the tragedy of the individual families and workers in Thailand. That's a pretty sad fact and makes you wonder. There are speculations that the situation will become better sometime in the next 6 months as the 'order backlog' is so large. It is also likely that the quality of the HDD could suffer from putting so much pressure to the manufacturing componies to keep up the production for these quantities. I am sure that some Desktop/Notebook manufacturing companies won't care about the quality as long as they can deliver its orders in time and faster as the competition.
11 January 2012, 08:53 AM
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I've been looking for a 2.5" 750gb drive (7200rpm) and it's going to cost me £114 
Waiting 6 months+ for prices to recover isn't really an option so all you can do is bend over and take it. To drop to 5400 would drop the price to £89 but that's still ridiculous.
Waiting 6 months+ for prices to recover isn't really an option so all you can do is bend over and take it. To drop to 5400 would drop the price to £89 but that's still ridiculous.
11 January 2012, 10:25 AM
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SSD drives are manufactured at other locations than the regular HDD's, which got hit by the Thailand floods. That's why the availability is much better. Even if the large factories for regular (moving) HDD's are rebuilt and again ready for production, you still have to keep in mind that it takes about 130 different component manufacturing companies to build/assemble a Harddisk drive in the large factories. Most of these companies were also hit by the floods. That's why the situation is really bad and unfortunately lots of our customers have close to zero tolerance towards this situation. Sometimes I have the impression that all they care about is that they will receive their PC or notebooks in time. Shipping TAT's are more important than the tragedy of the individual families and workers in Thailand. That's a pretty sad fact and makes you wonder. There are speculations that the situation will become better sometime in the next 6 months as the 'order backlog' is so large. It is also likely that the quality of the HDD could suffer from putting so much pressure to the manufacturing componies to keep up the production for these quantities. I am sure that some Desktop/Notebook manufacturing companies won't care about the quality as long as they can deliver its orders in time and faster as the competition.
That's why the situation is really bad and unfortunately lots of our customers have close to zero tolerance towards this situation. Sometimes I have the impression that all they care about is that they will receive their PC or notebooks in time. Shipping TAT's are more important than the tragedy of the individual families and workers in Thailand. That's a pretty sad fact and makes you wonder. There are speculations that the situation will become better sometime in the next 6 months as the 'order backlog' is so large. It is also likely that the quality of the HDD could suffer from putting so much pressure to the manufacturing componies to keep up the production for these quantities. I am sure that some Desktop/Notebook manufacturing companies won't care about the quality as long as they can deliver its orders in time and faster as the competition.
11 January 2012, 10:31 PM
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It is odd. I purchased a 3TB WD external drive a while ago for $179 (now $259 due to increased prices!) and the bare drive was about $230, same spec as well, which I found most strange, plus a little annoying as I've got a fair few enclosures hanging about and so could just whack in a bare drive, but not with that price difference.
12 January 2012, 04:35 PM
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I've got one of these reserved:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/verbat...88065-pdt.html
Apparently you can rip the drive out of it but I bet it's too big to fit in a laptop (Dell).
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/verbat...88065-pdt.html
Apparently you can rip the drive out of it but I bet it's too big to fit in a laptop (Dell).
12 January 2012, 04:58 PM
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I'd read somewhere the Dells (xps bays) will only take upto 750gb drives as anything bigger wont fit? If it does fit then this would be perfect as a 2nd drive.
12 January 2012, 05:53 PM
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12 January 2012, 06:23 PM
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