What you can do about soaring hard-drive prices

[morilihochili]

By Woody Leonhard

Floods in Thailand — and an ensuing worldwide purchasing panic — have pushed the price of hard drives to nosebleed heights and left us all with fewer choices.

Here’s what you need to know about the crisis, the fallout, and what you can do about it.

Have you tried to buy a hard drive in the past couple of weeks? I don’t know how things are in your neck of the woods, but out here the drive shortage is so bad you can’t find anyinternal drives on the store shelves. My friendly local computer shoppe won’t sell me an internal drive unless I buy a whole PC.

Read more HERE

 

[jfish]

itd mad.. EBuyer have a 320 GB SATA for 75 pounds

Western Digital WD3200AAJS 320GB Hard Drive SATAII.. | Ebuyer.com

and think 1TB are around 150 quid

6 months ago I got a 1 TB one for 45 quid and then another 320 GB one for around 20 quid.

 

[Spectre]

I was just reading a post on their forum and someone linked a drive for £30, showing as £85 when I clicked it.


I don't store much, I can exist using hand-me-down PATA drives.

 

[Exos]

April 2011: Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB ST2000DL003 Hard Drive - £58.79 @ Scan *Today Only*

November 2011: Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB ST2000DL003 Hard Drive - £143.98 Inc VAT

I paid about £76 ea 4 weeks ago.

 

[leemoo]

I thought i seen a few deals on Comet website only yesterday so maybe worth checking there out but they are defo increasing.....Xmas coming as well you see.