Hard Drive prices go through the roof
08-11-2011, 03:08
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Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Surprised this hasn't had much attention and probably why I didn't notice till I was about to buy a new drive. Due the floods in Thailand apparently.
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08-11-2011, 07:57
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
So its not just me. I was looking at getting another 1tb from ebuyer and couldnt believe the prices compared to when I bought my last HHD almsot a year ago. In saying that the price of RAM has gone down. I paid just over £65 from 4 gigs(2 X 2GIG) of RAM that exact RAM is now just over £20. I wonder if SSD has also driven up the price of HHD.
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08-11-2011, 08:00
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Yep. A couple of the major drive factories were under 6 feet of water at one point. Lord knows how long it will take to get the 'clean room' environment functional again. In the meantime the major system builders are talking about running out of drives before Christmas.
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08-11-2011, 08:29
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Horace can you post the link that you got that img from?
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08-11-2011, 08:39
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Scan will only let you buy one HD per order now. Basically there are no Western Digital drives being made in Thailand for the forseeable future
http://www.wdc.com/en/company/pressroom/
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In the quarter ending July 1, 2011, WD shipped approximately 54 million hard drives from its facilities in Thailand and Malaysia, with approximately 60 percent coming from its Thailand sites. The company's Thailand operations source much of its supply of components from local suppliers.
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That will be some big hole in capacity.
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08-11-2011, 11:19
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Yeah I was on Ebuyer the other day noticed that it was like over £100 for a 500gig drive.
Might be a good time to sell some spare HD's on ebay you'll get a good price for them at the moment lol
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08-11-2011, 14:42
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And there is me thinking I was going mad.
I suggested a friend bought a portable hard drive because they were cheap. But when I looked on line the price had rocketed.
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08-11-2011, 14:57
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Strangely the externals are slightly cheaper which has not always been the case.
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08-11-2011, 20:55
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
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Horace can you post the link that you got that img from?
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Not sure why the link didn't appear, iPad gets the blame  .
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Western-D...uct/B0036Q7MV0
Enter whatever part number or item you need a graph for by the way.
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08-11-2011, 23:27
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Perhaps this might persuade companies that out sourcing abroad is not always the answer.It should also remind them that putting all your eggs in one basket is one proverb to take to heart. 
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08-11-2011, 23:33
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
Doesn't matter how baskets you use, any loss is going to have an impact. If they didn't outsource, then the cost would be a lot more, not just now, but all the time.
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09-11-2011, 00:05
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
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Perhaps this might persuade companies that out sourcing abroad is not always the answer.It should also remind them that putting all your eggs in one basket is one proverb to take to heart. |
Yeah, cause the UK isn't prone to flooding at all
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09-11-2011, 00:27
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
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Yeah, cause the UK isn't prone to flooding at all |
Build all the factories on hills...simples!
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09-11-2011, 05:17
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
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Build all the factories on hills...simples!
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Being on a hill is no guarantee of safety. A Foxconn factory in Juárez, Mexico (elevation 1137m) stopped production due to a lack of water (no sprinkler system).
http://www.circuitsassembly.com/cms/...-juarez-plant-
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09-11-2011, 08:05
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Re: Hard Drive prices go through the roof
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Not likely in the UK though is it?
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