October 20, 201114 yr http://www.infoworld.com/t/hard-drives/the-impending-hard-drive-shortage-and-possible-price-hikes-176453 It would be weird to see an increase after the constant $ per GB decline....
October 20, 201114 yr The HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630 went up $50 since this morning on NewEgg!! $70 since Monday...:'( :'( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145561
October 21, 201114 yr The HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630 went up $50 since this morning on NewEgg!! $70 since Monday...:'( :'( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145561 they were $109 all weekend last week. I had 5 in my card but i forgot to hit "buy". I starting to run into my yellow zone. That is where I am at about 75% of my total capacity used. At 75% i consider myself in danger of running low space before the next big sale if i average a sale once every 30 days. Had i known... I would have stocked up. maybe even invested in drives for ebaying.. (at a low price of course) EDIT: Hrmm.. not only has newegg jacked the price WAY up on all drives. I looked in my my sale emails for the last few days, newegg lists all mechanical sale drives as sold out and micro center all turn up "item not found" when you click the links.. .. SSD'd might now end up cheaper per gig then a mechanical soon.
October 21, 201114 yr Tiger Direct still have 3tb Hitachis for $139 + shipping... cheapest I've found so far. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=149703&CatId=4357 Glad I'm not in need at the moment... :-\
October 21, 201114 yr Tiger Direct still have 3tb Hitachis for $139 + shipping... cheapest I've found so far. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=149703&CatId=4357 Glad I'm not in need at the moment... :-\ I bought 3x 3TB retail Hitachi right after my last post for $129 +free shipping off amazon. the last 3 they had at that price. $20 more then newegg had them for last week. I'll pay the few extra $$ to make sure i have a few in case of need... I think I have an addiction...
October 21, 201114 yr Yup. I see all of the 2TB drives have gone up by nearly 50% here (~£55 to ~£78), The 3TB drives only went up by about 15-20% however (~£120 to ~£145).
October 21, 201114 yr http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/10/21/thailand-floods-hard-drive-supply/ hrmm.. I bet apple is hording drives right now. It looks like enterprise drives are not effected. just consumer. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan-business/2011/10/22/320583/Thailand-floods.htm.
October 21, 201114 yr Guess there goes my plans of stocking up on drives on Black Friday. Don't need drives currently (got 4 2TB unused) but thought I might pick up a couple 3TB if they were cheaper than the $109 sales. Guess I'll wait and see.
October 21, 201114 yr Hey let us pick the poorest country to build a slave like workshop to make hard drives for the world. Who cares if the building is sub-standard and people only get paid $5/hour or less. Hard drive technology has been around for many years now. They aren't inventing anything new at all, just making them better. I would guess HD manufactures get back %100 on their HD sales.
October 21, 201114 yr The far east will probably start outsourcing their manufacturing to africa before long.
October 21, 201114 yr I'm deleting stuff and selling hard drives! They are worth more if you leave the p0rn on them... I decided to order a bunch more 3Tb drives from micro center since they were still on sale. I'm just going to leave them in the package on a shelf for 30days and see what happens. Figure I have a 30day price protection. Also, If the prices don't skyrocket, I also have their awesome 30day no questions asked return policy. this is the age of the SSD anyways... the 1TB SSD is now a reality. now we need more companies making the memory chips for them so they can go down in price. It wont be long until we have a 24+TB SSD server for a low price. who was it that predicted by 2016 everyone will have a TB on their phone and petabyte NAS's in the home?
October 21, 201114 yr Well if anyone really needs drives, there are plenty on Ebay at the old prices. For now at least.
October 22, 201114 yr http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/10/21/thailand-floods-hard-drive-supply/ hrmm.. I bet apple is hording drives right now. It looks like enterprise drives are not effected. just consumer. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan-business/2011/10/22/320583/Thailand-floods.htm. I think Apple uses more SSD than rotational now tho....
October 23, 201114 yr Last I checked, CDW's prices don't seem to have changed, at least not on their Seagate GoFlex External drives which we've been buying at work. Perhaps their internals have, but I hadn't really priced those lately. Speaking of which, the Seagate GoFlex 3TB is $10 cheaper than the 2TB model (same model number other than the capacity) at CDW right now.
October 24, 201114 yr The new mac mini is selling like hotcakes. thats mechanical. I have not looked at the latest pro or macbook pro. Last I checked those were spinners too. I was just reading apples comment on the situation and that they thought it was going to hurt them.
October 24, 201114 yr I use these in my server: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6 They are usually around 140 or so and drop down to 125 on sale. I got three to start with a couple months ago. When I heard about the flooding I picked up three more when they dropped back down to 125 a couple weeks ago. Now they're higher than ever.
October 24, 201114 yr Guess the two 1.5 TB drives I have sitting on my desk might have to be put in service until prices come back down. I have no need to hit the panic button yet. I still have about 3.5 TB free in the array.
October 24, 201114 yr Another link :- http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/24/disk_drive_economics/ WD-Centric Register Article :- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/20/wd_floods_prices_shortages/
October 25, 201114 yr Oh dear, I better order some drives. I'll need more 3TB drives before early 2012. edit: Ordered 2 more 3TB drives for AU$191.00 each. Most of the stores I usually order from have already moved their prices up.
October 25, 201114 yr Had to move manufacturing to a third world country and couldn't stay in the US, huh?
October 27, 201114 yr I ordered 5x 3Tb drives for work just before the prices shot up. Paid just shy of $900NZD for them, now the price is around $1200. It's set to rise even more.
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