Anyone notice price increases on hard drives ?

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited November 2011 in The Clubhouse
...even in the used market. Was looking for a used sata 60 to 120 gig hd to revive my ole dell. Dam floods.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/244540/small_pc_makers_hiking_pc_prices_on_harddrive_shortage.html
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited November 2011
    Blame all those jerk downloaders putting CD's out of business. :rolleyes:
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited November 2011
    Yes I did notice. A drive I've been looking at that was 114 at amazon a month ago is at about 150 now. And newegg is having fewer discounted sales on drives as well. They used to have them every week.:evil:
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited November 2011
    I haven't been in the market for a hard drive recently, but went grocery shopping with my wife for the first time in a while today.

    Food prices are waaaaaay up, so it makes sense everything else is (or will soon be) up also.
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited November 2011
    Hell yaeh. hp $77 4 months ago now $109.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,273
    edited November 2011
    Seagate and western digital are built in Taiwan, with the horrific flooding has caused the shortage and price increase.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited November 2011
    Is this the buying power of our dollar?


    What I paid a year ago $80 is like $170 now :eek:

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited November 2011
    Wait a few months and they will be inexpensive again.
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  • rebuy
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    edited November 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    I haven't been in the market for a hard drive recently, but went grocery shopping with my wife for the first time in a while today.

    Food prices are waaaaaay up, so it makes sense everything else is (or will soon be) up also.


    Thursday night, at our local Wal-Mart people were throwing punches over TV's and Paula Dean Cookware.
    At least 3 fights in our local store, I didn't go but I ask a cashier the next day.

    I sure hope we're not fighting over toilet paper like they did in Japan when they had a shortage years ago.
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  • Quaildog
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    edited November 2011
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    Seagate and western digital are built in Taiwan, with the horrific flooding has caused the shortage and price increase.

    beat me to it, WD was hit harder though
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  • rebuy
    rebuy Posts: 695
    edited November 2011
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Is this the buying power of our dollar?


    What I paid a year ago $80 is like $170 now :eek:

    Yes, as the dollar gets weaker gold goes up. Takes more dollars to buy gold cause it's weaker.
    That's why it's good fight for junk from China as the economy goes to hell.
    People in this country just don't care, but this is exactly what happened in Yugoslavia.
    Their inflation rate was 100% per day.
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited November 2011
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Is this the buying power of our dollar?


    What I paid a year ago $80 is like $170 now :eek:

    No, it's a shortage due to flooding. Not only have prices gone up, but Newegg has been limiting the purchase of all drives to one each for over a month now, so they don't run out. A real pain when you need to build several computers. Things are supposed to return to normal in March or April.

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited November 2011
    There was a sign up at fry's saying drive shortages were because of Flooding.
    Just buy one of those cheap USB external Black Friday dives and pull it out of the enclosure.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2011
    I buy exclusively Western Digital, and the prices have all but doubled over the last month or so. As stated before, it's because of the Thailand flooding. External drives are cheaper than internal, but are usually restricted by lower spindle speeds and reduced cache.
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  • Glowrdr
    Glowrdr Posts: 1,103
    edited November 2011
    I got lucky as hell. My PC had the OS drive crash, so I decided it was an appropriate time for a rebuild. Decided to go with a RAID setup, and picked up (2) 500 gig WD Black drives for $49.99 on the egg. Literally a week later, they were $149, limit 1. Whew!

    Now I'm waiting for them to come back to reality so I can pick one up for an external enclosure for the Dish receiver. Oh well, as long as my PC is up and running the rest can wait.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited November 2011
    Thankfully I do not need to purchase any drives right now or I would be screwed. As sucks2beme mentioned, I noticed those signs in Fry's when I was there as well. Of course, with a B&M store there are easy ways around it. Go in, buy one, walk out and deposit in car, go in, buy another one, ad infinitum. The employees don't care enough to watch for that.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited November 2011
    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    Seagate and western digital are built in Taiwan, with the horrific flooding has caused the shortage and price increase.

    Yep and its bad too. Theyre saying its going to be well into next year before stock is back to something resembling normal. In the meantime prices are going to continue to be pretty high. On the plus side, if youre building a new rig, you might as well go with a SSD now that they cost about the same price as a 7200 RPM hard drive.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited November 2011
    MacLeod wrote: »
    Yep and its bad too. Theyre saying its going to be well into next year before stock is back to something resembling normal. In the meantime prices are going to continue to be pretty high. On the plus side, if youre building a new rig, you might as well go with a SSD now that they cost about the same price as a 7200 RPM hard drive.
    Hmmm, this actually has me thinking. I was considering purchasing myself a new laptop for Christmas, however, I'm wondering if this will affect prices. I suppose most large manufacturers would already have a good stock of HDD's, but I don't know. If it does affect the price, I wonder if they will let me order it without a drive since I'd be moving my SSD over to the new laptop anyway. Plus, I have spare 2.5" HDD's.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited November 2011
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Is this the buying power of our dollar?


    What I paid a year ago $80 is like $170 now :eek:

    Oh Christ.

    No.

    Between the massive flooding in Southeast Asia and the nuke disasters in Japan, 2/3rds of the world's manufacturers in both hard drives and semi-conductors are not operational. You can expect prices to go up more on hard drives, memory, flash drives and even cellphones as well because demand is quickly out stripping supply.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited November 2011
    I asked a question asking if this was the issue, John so give me a break sir.

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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited November 2011
    I noticed a 33% price increase in the crappie spinners I buy on a regular basis. Went from 1.86 to 3.13 day before BF. It's a scam! For sure and for certain!

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2011
    Are the price inceases due to flooding in Thailand? I wasn't sure.































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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    Are the price inceases due to flooding in Thailand? I wasn't sure.



    :biggrin:

    No, it's due to the U.S. Dollar not being worth the paper it's printed on. :rolleyes:

    It's all tied to downloaders and their "virtual" files, theft and money in their war on CD sales. :rolleyes:

    It's a giant currency market bubble conspiracy! :rolleyes:

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited November 2011
    Wrong answer. Dig a bomb shelter, fill it full of canned food and water.
    Then buy lots of goats. Why goats? I don't know, but all the stylin'
    nut jobs are doing it, so it must be good, right?
    I bet they leave the factories down until the end of next year.
    $150 per drive sounds a lot better than making a whole bunch just for $49.
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  • nwohlford
    nwohlford Posts: 700
    edited November 2011
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Then buy lots of goats. Why goats? I don't know, but all the stylin'
    nut jobs are doing it, so it must be good, right?

    I think that you can substitute sheep for goats. Colbert gave the details on this a while back. Skip to 4:30 in the following video for the scoop.

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/258566/december-15-2009/prescott-financial---gold--women---sheep
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited November 2011
    If you dont need storage right now wait. Hard to believe a couple months back you could pick up a 2 TB Western Digital drive for $60-70 now.....yeah.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    edited November 2011
    Yes, factory in Thailand was flooded. Was reported 2 weeks or so ago on CNBC, possibly on Mad Money with Jim Cramer. BOOYAH!!!!!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,769
    edited November 2011
    That's the downside of the current fashion of running supply chains with zero inventory, just in time. Works fine 'til there's a glitch. Oops.
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  • Glowrdr
    Glowrdr Posts: 1,103
    edited November 2011
    For $300 I'll give up the HDD in my laptop. All 250 gig. Not willing to split. :mrgreen:
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2011
    Seagate 2tb drive, today only - $99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681&Tpk=N82E16822148681

    Keeping in mind I don't usually recommend Seagate anymore, I'm actually thinking about buying one, as my current 1.5tb array is full. But I'm also considering waiting until the WD drives become available again.... HMMMM
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited November 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    Seagate 2tb drive, today only - $99 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681&Tpk=N82E16822148681

    Keeping in mind I don't usually recommend Seagate anymore, I'm actually thinking about buying one, as my current 1.5tb array is full. But I'm also considering waiting until the WD drives become available again.... HMMMM

    I am with you. The Barracuda's series circa 2005 was bulletproof, not since then. I have one 1TB circa 2008 that was replaced (under warranty) and exhibited same issue. And it gets very hot. Samsung and WD are now my workhorses.
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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