Hard drive prices ! Whats going on ?

WeatherMan

WeatherMan

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I managed to get extremely lucky.

My mum's hard drive in her laptop recently took a dump, I've been scratching my head as to where to pick up a cheap one for a few weeks now.

Finally found a brand new 250GB Seagate (SATA/2.5") for £40 on Amazon.co.uk! The cheapest on Ebuyer right now is around £60, and that's for a 160GB IIRC. :rolleyes:
 
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pc_fanatic

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Okay so its not just me! I was on newegg and the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 that i bought for 59.99 is now 159.99! Glad I bought it when I did. Don't know whats causing this but hopefully things get back to normal.

If I knew this was gonna happen I would stocked up on them and undercut the new prices!
 
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voyagerfan99

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pc_fanatic said:
Okay so its not just me! I was on newegg and the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 that i bought for 59.99 is now 159.99! Glad I bought it when I did. Don't know whats causing this but hopefully things get back to normal.

If I knew this was gonna happen I would stocked up on them and undercut the new prices!
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pc_fanatic said:
Dude thats only like 2.5x over priced
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Flooding in Southern Asia

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/15/nation/9905701&sec=nation
 
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CrazyMike

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Just a note:

In my area HDD prices have increase dramatically, yet SSD prices have dropped. Average drop is approx $50 - $100 cheaper. This has been affected in the past 2 months. Prices have seem to get lower and lower.

Eg. Corsiar Force Series Sata III 120GB - was $256 now $200
 
voyagerfan99

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voyagerfan99

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CrazyMike said:
Off topic question:

I am at work, i try to click the link you provided yet an access denied page comes up (mainly cause we are highly restricted on which site we can go to). Yet i can surf newegg site all i want. Why and how is the link not working?
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Might be because this is newegg.com and not newegg.ca?

Try this one:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produc...k=Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1 2.5"

johnb35 said:
Thats the one I have except I bought it at Tigerdirect during the summer. It's an awesome drive.

However, I'm upgrading to the 128gb M4 drive really soon though.
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How much did you pay for it over the summer?
 
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Mosely22

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2yrs for prices to be the same? i don't think it will be that long bro, 2yrs from now they should have much more than 3tb external hard drive's available.....well, at least hopefully! have to love technology!
 
voyagerfan99

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Mosely22 said:
2yrs for prices to be the same? i don't think it will be that long bro, 2yrs from now they should have much more than 3tb external hard drive's available.....well, at least hopefully! have to love technology!
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Well we won't really know.
 
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Mosely22

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voyagerfan99 said:
Well we won't really know.
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true, i would just imagine that in a couple years from now there will be bigger hard drives......my buddy ordered a hitachi 3tb ehd 2 weeks ago and paid $119.99 for it! insaneeee. i told him about the floods and he was so happy he got his a couple of weeks ago. wish i did, lol
 
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Mosely22

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JHM said:
Not only are prices going up, but quality is going down. I bought a bunch of "NEW" HDDs for the machine I am building, then ran "TESTHDD" on them. 1 wasn't recognized by the bios, 1 had fairly bad sector damage all over the drive, 1 had solid minor sector damage from one end to the other of the drive, 1 was good with only a little minor sector damage, 1 was good except that it had fairly bad sector damage at the back of the drive, 2 were good except that they had a much lower read speed that the other 2 good ones, ETC. NOT A GOOD TIME TO BE BUYING HDDs!!
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where can i use the "TestHDD" program?? i think i saw it on here somewhere, but i can't remember where i saw it..
 
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