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It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« on: 15 November 2011, 21:47:52 »
Just been to look at hard drive prices, and tget have doubled.

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pricelow&store=33&cat=392&filtersubcat=3265&limit=50&page=1

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/SATA+%28Serial+ATA%29/?x=12&p_order=price_asc&p=cF9vcmRlcj1wcmljZV9kZXNjJnBfc3R5bGU9JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=

Paid this at the end of august from Ebuyer

1 x    Samsung 2TB External Hard Drive Hi Speed USB

£53.82    £53.82



Even this was January 2009 from Aria

Samsung HD103UJ SpinPoint F1 1TB 3.5" SATA-II Hard Drive    £ 64.95


Plus VAT and del of course.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #1 on: 15 November 2011, 21:49:07 »
I really do miss the edit button  :-\
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #2 on: 15 November 2011, 21:59:44 »
Many Hard Drive fabrication plants are in Thailand, around Bangkok, and most of them are under some amount of water. This has resulted in a world wide shortage so prices have risen.... and will probably rise further...  :(

This is just Western Digital ..  :(

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2118449/production-hdd-severely-disrupted-thai-floods

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/27/wd_flooded_factory

(and the "modify" button top right of your posts - for a limited amount of time - works just like "edit" ..  :)  .. see  :)  )

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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #3 on: 15 November 2011, 22:16:28 »
Cheers, understand the reason why now  :y, I dont keep up todate with technology news anymore.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #4 on: 15 November 2011, 22:35:53 »
Yep, bad time to buy hard drives. Just as I was about to re-disk the servers in the office (bites nails). ::)
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #5 on: 15 November 2011, 22:56:03 »
I still have 2  or 3 brand new unused ones, but just wanted something bigger as I am finally upgrading to windows 7.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #6 on: 16 November 2011, 19:17:20 »
Yeah, do not buy HDDs now. Or for the foreseeable future.  There will still be shortages this time next year.

Expect prices to double again in the next 3 months ;)


I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #7 on: 16 November 2011, 19:42:26 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 November 2011, 19:17:20
Yeah, do not buy HDDs now. Or for the foreseeable future.  There will still be shortages this time next year.

Expect prices to double again in the next 3 months ;)


I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(


Totally agree, and I was just about to double the 6 hard drives in my server from 6 x 1TB upping them all to 2TB, should hae done it whilst I was thinking of it. ah well.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #8 on: 16 November 2011, 19:49:35 »
The floods :'( :'( and I wanted to add another drive
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« Reply #9 on: 16 November 2011, 20:52:06 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 November 2011, 19:17:20
I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(
I've had my Crucial C300 (256GB) for a fair while now and could never go back to an electro-mechanical storage medium, they really are painfully slow and quite fragile in comparison to SSD's.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #10 on: 17 November 2011, 18:49:54 »
Quote from: Martian on 16 November 2011, 20:52:06
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 November 2011, 19:17:20
I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(
I've had my Crucial C300 (256GB) for a fair while now and could never go back to an electro-mechanical storage medium, they really are painfully slow and quite fragile in comparison to SSD's.
Toyed with one for OOF back when we were having troubles...  ...didn't in the end due to reliability due to massive write rates (with YaBB), and the fact there was no definative answer about compatibility with the SMART P400 controller we use.

Disk issues not a problem currently, so I get to enjoy the clatter of a good SQL query ;D
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« Reply #11 on: 17 November 2011, 19:03:13 »
Quote from: Martian on 16 November 2011, 20:52:06
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 November 2011, 19:17:20
I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(
I've had my Crucial C300 (256GB) for a fair while now and could never go back to an electro-mechanical storage medium, they really are painfully slow and quite fragile in comparison to SSD's.

I have SSDs as boot devices in all my computers, but I wouldn't like to build a NAS with them.. that'd be awfully expensive  :o well, to replicate the 8x 2TB I have right now, anyway.

I knew I should have swapped to 3TB drives when the prices were.. well, slightly less eye watering than they are now - they never really became 'cheap' like 2TB drives. :(
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #12 on: 17 November 2011, 19:08:19 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 17 November 2011, 19:03:13
Quote from: Martian on 16 November 2011, 20:52:06
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 November 2011, 19:17:20
I suspect most of us will have to start buying flash drives instead :(
I've had my Crucial C300 (256GB) for a fair while now and could never go back to an electro-mechanical storage medium, they really are painfully slow and quite fragile in comparison to SSD's.

I have SSDs as boot devices in all my computers, but I wouldn't like to build a NAS with them.. that'd be awfully expensive  :o well, to replicate the 8x 2TB I have right now, anyway.

I knew I should have swapped to 3TB drives when the prices were.. well, slightly less eye watering than they are now - they never really became 'cheap' like 2TB drives. :(
3Gb were still the premium product, so carried premium prices, despite being SATA.  2G fell into that far better value mainstream upgrade.
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Re: It must be Chrimbo - Computer components?
« Reply #13 on: 17 November 2011, 19:10:34 »
Indeed - there was a world of difference in the price-per-Mb (or Gb, whatever we measure that in, these days).. ah well, I'll just have to stop collecting quite so much.. whatever it is I've filled it with  ;D

Much like my house, the junk has expanded to fill all available space.
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