hard drive prices going up

[GommeInc]

It's interesting to see people panic buying hard drives - it makes a change to bread, butter and milk It seems many are slowly becoming out of stock, so any price hikes are just going to reflect the demand and importance of restocking, ebuyer has got to make a profit and somehow manage to get some more in seeing as people seem to be panicking all of a sudden

[scottish]

mhm

Apparently when next Seagate drives are finished production they're going to ship them in bulk by air instead of boat to restore supply faster

So wonder if they'll actually manage to calm down the panic buyers, or if we'll be paying £150/TB by xmas :p

[N!ck]

@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


Not cool....

Yeah, I know I looked a few days ago. Aria is my standard place to shop since it is in walking distance meaning no postage costs and I get my stuff instantly .

[AgnesIO]

This increase is shocking.

Blatantly profiteering, the hdd's on sale would have been brought by companies such as eBuyer way before this.

Suddenly SSD's look slightly better value.

[scottish]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/201...ive_economics/

[Jutnux]

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).

Or you could just use Ubuntu and boot in 7 seconds :rolleyes:

[AgnesIO]

Or you could just use Ubuntu and boot in 7 seconds :rolleyes:

But we don't want to use Ubuntu..

[Recursion]

Or you could just use Ubuntu and boot in 7 seconds :rolleyes:

Ubuntu doesn't boot in 7 seconds.

[Stephen!]

Ubuntu takes longer to boot on an SSD than Windows 7 does for me.

[scottish]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/201.../hdd_flooding/

So far Acer has confirmed price rises on the next batch of shipments and rival ASUS revealed yesterday it will run out of disk drives by the end of this month. Other PC vendors have noted the challenges in securing HDDs but have not commented further.

DRAM is likely to feel the strain of a slowing mobile PC market as "any reduction in PC sales due to supply constraints will further depress the already oversupplied DRAM market", said iSuppli.

Some camera makers – including Sony, Nikon and Canon – have been disrupted by the natural disaster in the Far East as have car makers, with Ford, Mazda, Hino, Honda, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Toyota suspending production in Thailand. ®