Hard Drive Costs
 

:eek:

Going up faster than petrol. Flooding in Thailand is causing a global shortage as around 25% of all drives are made there.

Not a good time to by a new PC etc.

Yeah it's crazy. On Ebuyer, all the 2TB disks which were around £60 have shot up to £130 overnight. It's going to last for quite a few months as well.

It won't be long before the supply of new PCs hits delays

Oh lord that is a crazy price hike!

It's nuts.

One of our trade distributors (Ingram) stopped selling any HDs last week but has now started offering them again. I was paying sub £70 for a WD RE4 1TB a few weeks back - now at £190 ex VAT :eek: :eek:

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB has gone from £40.78 to £89.96

:eek:

Damn! Was thinking of getting one of them .... :brickwall :brickwall

Dave

I'd wait a couple of weeks....

I just ordered, monday, a 2.5" 750GB drive - i paid 59 and it's now 77 on amazon!

i also ordered a 3tb FW800 drive from WD and it's still the same price.

The SSD's haven't moved that much.

I wondered why my 2TB drive went up from 60 to 129.99 glad I bought when I did :eek: http://www.ebuyer.com/264274-wd-2tb-...cache-wd20earx

If it were me that just bought one cheap I'd be selling it on to make a profit :D

Just grabbed a Crucial M4 SSD for £83...

So I can clean up one of my 1TB WD caviar black drives....

dunx

P.S. Should I put it on ebay ? :lol1: