hard drive prices going up

I actually just grabbed myself two 3TB 3.0 USB externals off Amazon for 50% or so off. I'm good.

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Originally Posted by N!ck

That's clearly coming from someone who's never used a SSD as a boot drive ;).

I will never have a desktop PC that doesn't have one again (until there's something better of course).

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You would be correct ;) As it stands though, storage is more important than read/write speed in my view :P

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Originally Posted by Recursion

You would be correct ;) As it stands though, storage is more important than read/write speed in my view :P

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It's not about the continuous read/write speeds. It's all about the random i/o and access times.

Almost £100 per 1TB now, lmao.

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Originally Posted by scottish

Almost £100 per 1TB now, lmao.

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This man, isn't ********ing.

Link for people to see: http://www.ebuyer.com/173804-samsung...-cache-hd103sj

Just wow, I have two of those and they certainly didn't cost that much.

Cheapest 1TB 7200RPM;

Overclockers.co.uk - Seagate Barracuda - £91.99 (I paid just under £45 just over a month ago)
Aria.co.uk - WD Caviar Blue - £100
Scan.co.uk - Hitachi - £82.80
Microdirect - Seagate - £90
Dabs.com - Hitachi Deskstar - £79.99

Some double the price of earlier this month, others over double.

Gah, should have bought a new 2 TB storage drive when I had the chance @ £60 :(.

Edit: Just grabbed one at £85 :P.

I might be wrong but there looks like a lot of profiteering going on here by technology firms. Prices on eBay look barely unchanged, suggesting no real shortage yet.

It's distributors

They put the price up like mad, so e-tailers need to put their price up to reflect this (otherwise for example, ebuyer will buy all of arias stock @ £45 for 1TB then aria needs to buy more stock from dist at a much higher price

But yeah they'll be profiting a good bit as well from their existing stock


@Nick, Aria was selling 20 of their 2TB drives earlier at £65, but was only for last 20 so doubt theres any left now :p

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