News on Hard Drive Prices... (Up over 200% and rising)

[EizikDarvish]

fuck them i wont buy a shit until is get normal, fuck them.

[ulgk]

I know, hard drives are so ridiculous. I just need a $50 dollar hard drive brand new, but now it's $150 and rising. Geez, I am on a tight budget, so I was forces to buy a $50 recertified hard drive from newegg.com. In my opinion, it's plain stupid to base all or most the manufacturing capacity of hard drives in Thailand!!!

[mindrapeart]

It's not flooding. those places are sinking under the ocean.

[cummings4409]

ssd is nothing but a waste of money for the storage space

[misterpc23]

@cummings4409 No it's not. It's well worth the cash. You obviously have never used a pc with a nice SSD and Cpu...

[STRIKER520]

@misterpc23 For mass storage it would still be cheaper to get a hard drive over ssd unless you are one of the idiots that would pay hundreds of dollars more so your computer starts up 2 seconds faster.

[misterpc23]

@STRIKER520 For sizes over 120gb yes, it would be cheaper to get a HDD. But quantities smaller than that it's better to get an SSD. It's not boot times that you notice the most. It's the responsiveness of the entire system.

[1misanthropist]

Yea, I was going to by a 2.5" sata6gb 750gb 16mb cache 7200rpm for $99 , a 2.5" sata 1tb 5400rpm 8mb cache for $105, and an external 3tb 7200rpm for $125 back in early October ( 2months ago) . Those prices are just a dream now, wish I had done it when I had the chance!!!! Damn. Oh, if we had but world enough and time..........................­..

[YTmurphy]

0:25 BOOM! Headcrash xD

[neomaximus13]

yep, prices gone up in some cases up to 300% their regular prices... really sucks!!

[stuntman7643]

Yeah i bought a 500gb drive for 30$ and i was going to add on to my system later but now the same drive is 80$

[Svigos13]

my hard drive starting to crash i have it about 4 years and i need new wtf what i am going to do i dont have so much money.....FUCK FUCK FUCK.......!

[darthspeaks]

Price gouging is a horrible thing. Yes some people drowned in Malaysia or somewhere (Thailand?). This is what these asshole execs get for shipping OUT jobs overseas. See how a small calamity can change our lives just from some country not having the infrastructure to deal with it's own shit does to us? All this over the fact that fat ass exec wanted to save on labor costs and taxes.

We suffer for their greed.

Fuck them.

[chikotube]

i spent $150 for my WD30EURS, now it's $400 on average!

[darthspeaks]

@chikotube This happened with memory. They want prices to go down as much as we do. I know Western Digital - the best HD maker in town. When something becomes scarce - it becomes valuable. If only I had bought my 2 TB before these 3rd world shits drowned over there.

[Fossillarson]

Just offered to trade a 640gb wd hd to a guy for his 8gb 2x4gb of ram then i go look at the price i payed $40 for it new its still wraped and sealed now ther over $100 omg stop fk moving are company's over sea's to shit holes

[evsidewinder2]

I won't be building my machine till... 2012 maybe? well till prices drop :(

[misterpc23]

@evsidewinder2 You could go with an SSD for now and keep your programs limited until they drop back down.

[evsidewinder2]

@misterpc23 Very true but I still find SSDs too price for lack of space and the reliability isn't the best with them yet. Even with their great performance, I still think I'll be sticking with mechanical drives for a few more years

[kakashi1548]

This stinks, because I don't know if one of my customers is going to need new hard drives at this point or not.... I am definitely going to try to get his current ones working again though

[misterpc23]

@kakashi1548 Yeah. I dont think it's going to get better any time soon :(

[AgentHydra]

I spent $40 shipped for my 5000AAKS, now its $116

[kippenkopjes]

no raid 0 for me

[misterpc23]

@kippenkopjes yeah no kidding lol.

[Voicesinme]

working today my ass!!!!

[CyberDruidtheModGod]

Hard to make had drives when your clean room is under 3 feet of mud. There are deals out there...but not for long.

[misterpc23]

@CyberDruidtheModGod yeah. I feel sorry for everyone over there :/

[JJROADSTA]

that explains so much I ordered an 750gb black and i was getting quoted £200 but found it on amazon for £54 so with a little research you can get m cheap

[ComputerTechTV]

This is sad news hope it doesn't get worse for them over there.

[misterpc23]

@ComputerTechTV Agreed and Same :/

[23hocke]

yeah i knew there was something up with the hard drive prices i was browsing on new egg too and it was insane

[misterpc23]

@23hocke Agreed.