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Why have hard drive prices gone up so much recently

Forum Storage : Hard Drives Why have hard drive prices gone up so much recently

It was not that long ago a 500gb drive was 35 dollars and a 1tb drive was $50.
those same drives I bought at those prices are now $49 and $79
these are all newegg prices

I am really looking for both a very inexpensive 500gb drive and a good deal on 2tb drive.

Reply to alohascott

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/s [...] 13802.html

Reply to De5_roy

Still going up now $59 and 1tb $79
when are they going to come back down to normal?

Reply to alohascott

When Thailand dries out and stocks build back up. According to the article, "several quarters." Bear in mind that the people on the scene may be giving first priority to housing, food, and sanitation over restoring drive manufacturing capacity.

Reply to WyomingKnott

They are use to it and have a lot of experience in responding to this, so it will not take too long. After a few weeks of rebuilding it will be all back to normal.

Reply to mlg626

update
500gb now $99
1tb drive at $129

Reply to alohascott

update
500GB now $109
1TB drive at $139.99

Reply to lp231

man these prices are outrageous.
I have looked around a bit and everytime i see a lower price listed on some shopping engine, when you actually go to the site its much higher or out of stock.

SSD are starting to look very attractive with sale prices on 120gb down in the $150 range.
I got 120gb corsair force 3 yesterday for $140

Reply to alohascott

And we're getting spanked twice as hard in UK:
500GB = GBP85 ($137)
1TB = GBP102 ($165)
2TB = GBP120 ($195)

A 2TB price per GB looks like a bargain now compared to the other options....

Reply to swi5h

Hdd prices dropped so low then came the flood. Now Hdd manufacturers got the price back in their grips and can control it as they see fit. They are milking the market on purpose now using the flood as a excuse

Seagate HD manufacturing plant in Wuxi, China.
Kuala Lumpur
Kumi, South Korea
Beijing
^What about those plants? Did they flood as well?

Message edited by gnomio on 11-13-2011 at 09:31:11 AM

Reply to gnomio

im glad i bought my 640gb back in june on a super sale of 45$. its like 129 now lol.

Reply to dontcrosthestreams

i saw a 1 tb wd cavir black for $220.00..... 0_0!!!!!!!!!!!! on newegg and amazon

Reply to gtx_560tiuser

i got a 2 TB external at walmart for $89 and with tax $93.75... but it was a Seagate and if you look in this forum you can see how that ended...

still, i dont remember seeing anything nearly that expensive besides the overpriced brands that break immediately.

where are you guys finding these statistics? idk much about computers [yet] so i would appreciate the info.

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Reply to digital dilemna

Makes me so glad I upgraded my storage array in September.

Reply to l0ckd0wn

I hear you there, I bought 4 3TB drives back a few months ago for 179.99 each and now those same drives are 430 bucks a piece!

Reply to extermintor981

I got a 750 GB 7200 RPM sata 3.0 drive 4 years ago for 60$ on clearance...

Im debating Ebaying it right now and sitting on my raid of 4/40 IDEs till price drops again haha

Reply to Teholdsedare

digital dilemna wrote :

digital dilemna
the real question is if you see better prices
where are they?

amazon
newegg
anywhere all have very high prices
i agree neweeg has raised prices more then the current market should dictate
but anywhere you look they are still very expensive

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Reply to alohascott

external and notebook hard drive prices were not as quick to rise.
but now they are starting to catch up with desktop internal drives.

Reply to alohascott

alohascott wrote :

if i understand you correctly then u wish to know where good deals are.
'the real question is if you see better prices, where are they?'
i have been told The Micro Center is very cheap and offers quality.

if i misunderstood the question then i guess just ignore me and chuckle i guess.

Reply to digital dilemna

yes micro center does have good prices.
but mostly for people who can walk into a store.
saw some great deals the site
95 or maybe 100 percent of the deals i wanted to buy were only available in the store.
sent them a note about allowing me to see only items that could be shipped on the site but never heard back from them.

Message edited by alohascott on 12-09-2011 at 03:26:14 AM

Reply to alohascott

$79 would be great for a 1TB HDD now.

I just got this email with a sale on the WD Black 1TB:

I bought this same drive earlier this year for around $75.

Reply to bishoplord

that sounds good.
I am pretty stocked up on large new drives.
what i need is small used drives.
looking for 10 160gb for around $160
or even
10 80gb for around $90

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Message edited by alohascott on 12-16-2011 at 04:40:10 AM

Reply to alohascott

In under 3 months ago I had brought a External HDD Seagate 2TB 7200rpm 3.5 USB 3.0 for 3600 Rubble around $110 AUD, I was looking on buying a internal hard drive, I was shocked at the price of hard drives and how much they have gone up by, in the same shop now for the same hard drive what I had brought it now risen to 5900 rubble around $185 for the same hard drive, this is a product of China and assembled in China on it Label far from Thailand and Japan, it looks like China wants to make money from other country’s misfortune, I would be happy to pay the extra $75 AUD if this money was going to help Thailand or Japan get their IT back to where it was 6 months ago, but for this money to make some ones wallet bigger with greed, I happy to wait on buying a new hard drive, and I hope others will wait too, until HDD come back to a price that is fare for all, in all countries, Redfox69

Reply to redfox1969

simple supply and demand.
drives are a commodity like anything else.

if there was a freeze in Florida the price of orange juice would go up.
even if that juice was made in California.

drives made in china would sell out if price was reasonable.
They do not have enough drives to make up for shortage from Thailand.
why should they sell out of their drives for less then current prices when they can sell at the market price and make more profits?

Reply to alohascott

alohascott wrote :

that sounds good.
I am pretty stocked up on large new drives.
what i need is small used drives.
looking for 10 160gb for around $160
or even
10 80gb for around $90

If you're serious about small used drives, you might want to look at computer-show.com?

http://www.computer-show.com/ccc1050-hard-drives.htm

My relationship to computer-show.com? Just another satisfied customer.

Later On,
D

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