Topic: Hard Drive Prices Going Up Up Up...

[H₂O]

Is it just me or have hard drive prices increased dramatically in the last 2 weeks (like 50% or something).

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Is it just me or have hard drive prices increased dramatically in the last 2 weeks (like 50% or something).

yeah, it's a supply issue.

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Won't someone please mop the clean rooms?

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[adrianf74]

Won't someone please mop the clean rooms?

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Thanks for the pictures.   I just noticed prices were jumping pretty quickly, too, as I was in need of picking up another 8TB of storage.  Guess I'll be waiting a while.

[H₂O]

I thought it only affected WD - I guess WD supplies enough to drive up costs 50%

[Gordon]

damn!  my go to storage drive has gone up $10 ($69.99) with $8 shipping.  non sale price is usually $59.99 with free shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

[adrianf74]

damn!  my go to storage drive has gone up $10 ($69.99) with $8 shipping.  non sale price is usually $59.99 with free shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

That's nothing.  Check the price on the F4 2TB.  A few weeks back, it was around US$60-65 and is now double that.

[rastasean]

The drive I was eyeing was right about $70-75 and now about $120.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

Funny how its not mentioned the negative effects of a "global economy market" crap until after things like this happy. i hope the people of Thailand are okay but recovering from something as bad as this will take a long, long time.

[Gordon]

damn!  my go to storage drive has gone up $10 ($69.99) with $8 shipping.  non sale price is usually $59.99 with free shipping

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

That's nothing.  Check the price on the F4 2TB.  A few weeks back, it was around US$60-65 and is now double that.

that is insane!!  glad I'm set on drives for a while.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Right when I was about to move all of my data to 3TB drives (I'd just need 2. 1 for data and 1 for backup).

Still have plenty of room on my existing drives. Sure would have made backups a lot easier.

Oh well. Life could be worse.

[Gordon]

what 3tb drives are you looking at?  Hitachi seems to be the big one but I don't trust Hitachi.  been reading about lots of issues with them already. 

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

what 3tb drives are you looking at?  Hitachi seems to be the big one but I don't trust Hitachi.  been reading about lots of issues with them already.

I've pretty much moved to using only Western Digital drives.

I don't trust the 3TB drives 100% either, but I plan on having 2 copies of everything on two 3TB drives and then I'll keep my off site backups on a variety of 1 and 2TB drives.

All that will have to wait. I was holding out to 3TB drives getting close to the $100 mark.

[adrianf74]

what 3tb drives are you looking at?  Hitachi seems to be the big one but I don't trust Hitachi.  been reading about lots of issues with them already.

I've pretty much moved to using only Western Digital drives.

I don't trust the 3TB drives 100% either, but I plan on having 2 copies of everything on two 3TB drives and then I'll keep my off site backups on a variety of 1 and 2TB drives.

All that will have to wait. I was holding out to 3TB drives getting close to the $100 mark.

At this point, I'm with you as far as trusting 3TB drives.  I wouldn't go near a Hibachi DeathStar if you paid me to take the drive. I have one that's been RMA'd twice and still died the third time (drive health is 81% at present with a whack of bad sectors and runs REALLY hot... in fact, I could use it as a Hibachi - I'm not making this up).

As far as WD drives go... well, I've had two WD20EADS drives go back for RMA's out of 5 that I use in my setup.  I find they run relatively warm (about 34-38c) under moderate useage.   I have 1 Seagate LP drive which runs around 32c and then I have the two Samsung HD204UI's which run between 29c and 32c under moderate useage.   I had been hoping to pick up (6) of those drives and replace the rest in my storage boxes but I'm not interested in paying $120 a pop at the moment.

The sad part is that Seagate recently purchased Samsung's Hard Drive division so, I'm guessing, we'll be seeing these drives phased out (which is really unfortunate).  They run the coolest, quiest and have offered me the least number of headaches.

[Gordon]

The sad part is that Seagate recently purchased Samsung's Hard Drive division so, I'm guessing, we'll be seeing these drives phased out (which is really unfortunate).  They run the coolest, quiest and have offered me the least number of headaches.

yea I'm not happy about this!  I doubt they'll phase them out but they will be shitty seagates with a samsung logo on them.  I use to swear by seagate and still have a few 500gb's that are rock solid.  their quality control has gone to shit over the last few years.

[Brian E.]

yeah I was just looking at some 3TB drives, thinking about upgrading to them - but at $180 each for WD, it's hard to swallow.