How are you reacting to the Hard Drive shortage?

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How are you reacting to the hard drive shortage?

  • May give SSD a try now

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • USED!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Recertified

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sacrificing Size

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Huddling in a Corner until March atleast

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Forking over the cash because I need a drive

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • S'all good. I'm comfy with 3 TB over here.

    Votes: 2 33.3%

  • I'm buying now for when the prices get worse.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Deal Hunting

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Total voters
    6
Pyree

Pyree

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Apr 1, 2011
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Poll is not working.

I have enough HDD storage as of now so I just hope they don't fail and waiting for March.

If I knew I would have stock up on the 1TB HDD when they are around $65 and sell them now.
 
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Guest

Guest

"If I knew" could be applying to the whole economy, couldn't it?

I got myself used Caviar Blue, but it's only 1.5 months old and it was used as backup drive outside of PC.
 
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TheMLDrake

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Dec 5, 2011
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Annoying, looking to build a budget PC for christmas but it shoots up the price when you only have around £400-£500 to play with. Prices have doubled since last build, remember when a caviar black was around £70 and now its at £130. Could be possible deterant to new builders as well because of this.
 
spasmolytic46

spasmolytic46

Guest
Dec 2, 2011
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I've been contemplating a BD burner for additional back up to hold me over for the next year or so... Can't say I'm looking forward to go back to loading discs in and out and keeping track of archives and yet another password to remember. As expensive as they will get I can't see justifying new drive purchases.
 
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datakeeper

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Nov 29, 2011
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I'm going to Guatemala next month. At markets, you can get a TB drive for about $20. Now, I know what you're thinking. But yes, they're reliable. The one I purchased last year is not the fastest thing, it runs at 5400. But it works well. They're not sold online (to my knowledge/through a reputable dealer) because the company that makes them primarily makes them for government use and sells only .5% of their stock to Guatemalan markets. They're not quiet. But they'll make due.
 
Onus

Onus

Titan
Jan 27, 2006
37,037
12
89,965
Fortunately, I overbought drive space this past summer. My 2x2TB RAID1 is only half allocated as it is. I also have a couple of spare drives lying around; a 250GB (which just needs a complete format to kill a virus my wife got last year), a 320GB, and I have a 500GB drive that may have some data on it but I could clear that off. So, if I needed to build another rig for someone who didn't mind a used drive, I'd be ok.
 
Pyree

Pyree

Splendid
Apr 1, 2011
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^No problem fitting everything in for me as well, but if one fail, then the redundancy is gone and I don't know whether it is better to sacrifice the redundancy or sacrifice my money.
 
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datakeeper

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Nov 29, 2011
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Dammit. I JUST bought a 32 GB Kingston SSD. Damn, now I wish I had held off.

 
nikorr

nikorr

Champion
Oct 22, 2009
23,335
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54,960

I have Vertex2 for @227.99 when it got out : )

Best upgrade u can do for this price. If u didn't have an SSD yet, it will knock your socks off.

No more busy circle, CS5 loads in 5sec, Win starts fast, closing 200 tabs is instant. Most programs load instantly.

Its the fastest of SATA2 series.
 
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KonstantinDK

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Apr 16, 2011
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Bought SSD OCZ 120GB Agility 3
Gona reinstall Windows on it and use old HDD for moview storage. I'm gona have an interesting evening playing with SSD =)
 
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