Bad time for HDD upgrades

[cycoextreme]

Thai Floods Hit Q4 Hard Drive Production, Says Research Firm | PCWorld Business Center

Rish just told me so i looked it up, this sucks, but SSD prices are fine

 

[Rishwin]

Bad time to buy, good time to be selling. The prices have increased purely due to a lack of supply since the factories & roads are flooded. The actual manufacturing costs haven't changed, so retailers paid the normal price for them and are now making 4-5 times their regular profit margin.

Just as well i picked up a 1TB 2.5" portable USB3 drive 2 weeks ago for $70, it's now closer to $150 lol.

 

[cycoextreme]

thats a good example, if i needed an HDD i would wait, even so the SSDs are now cheaper (for 60GB or lower) are under $100, so i plan on using them in my next build

 

[Junkers]

Hitachi Deskstar 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB.. | Ebuyer.com

That would've been tops £60 a fortnight ago... :*: thank christ I got my 1TB + 500GB external ages ago. God damn you mother nature!

 

[MapleWTF]

Samsung f3 1tb was 40€ a week ago now its 100€+ here xD.

 

[cycoextreme]

yea its all screwed up, but i think most SSD prices are good, the Patriot Pyro 60GB is still under $100

and i havent checked laptop prices, but i think it would effect them as well

 

[Samus.]

HDD prices up, SSD prices down?

 

[XcvcX]

That would explain the reason why I was confused the other day when I went looking to buy another HDD only to find them up in price by a ridiculous price.

 

[Sardaukar]

The 2tb drives around between 200-300 right now, some of them are right under 400 even! Gotta love it!