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Flooding - HDD prices
on: November 04, 2011, 20:12:53 PM
Crackers aren't they  :o nearly £200 for a 2TB!!!
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Re: Flooding - HDD prices
Reply #1 on: November 04, 2011, 20:34:03 PM
 Was thinking about replacing a couple of 1TB drives with 2TB as I’m getting a little low on room... guess I had better have a deleting session!  :P     
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Reply #2 on: November 04, 2011, 20:56:53 PM
That's pretty much triple the price from last time I looked! Samsung F4 @ £180!
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Reply #3 on: November 04, 2011, 22:02:20 PM
I read people saying prices were going to triple over a few weeks and completely dismissed it, but, they have. Unbelievable.

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Re: Flooding - HDD prices
Reply #4 on: November 05, 2011, 09:29:26 AM
I was going to get 4 3tb drives probably in the new year for my microserver, they'd been hovering around £130-140 and last week they'd got to £230, they have come down to £200 though, well according to my oh so scientfic method of checking one website :D
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Re: Flooding - HDD prices
Reply #5 on: November 06, 2011, 16:40:51 PM
I found some 3Tb Seagate externals on Argos last week and bought 2 of them for just over £100 each - getting £40 of vouchers back too, but now I've ripped them out to use in my Microserver they have no warranty, I've just got to prey they last! I would have posted the deal on here but forgot in all my rushing
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Reply #6 on: November 06, 2011, 20:30:04 PM
Had to buy one here recently with my new PC build. $60 on top and I hear gone up more since. Nuts.
Anyone remember when memory went crazy prices for a bit?
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Reply #7 on: November 07, 2011, 23:01:13 PM
Quote from: neXus on November 06, 2011, 20:30:04 PM
Had to buy one here recently with my new PC build. $60 on top and I hear gone up more since. Nuts.
Anyone remember when memory went crazy prices for a bit?

Like 5 times at least since i started using computers, lets be more specific anyone remember those elite TwinMoss 2x 256MB Kits that came out around the XP2500 / Abit NF7-S time that everyone was buying and then there was an earthquake or something which skyrocketed the price of them, and hunting around you found Komplett to be the best priced!
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Re: Flooding - HDD prices
Reply #8 on: November 07, 2011, 23:43:36 PM
Quote from: Bacon on November 07, 2011, 23:01:13 PM
Quote from: neXus on November 06, 2011, 20:30:04 PM
Had to buy one here recently with my new PC build. $60 on top and I hear gone up more since. Nuts.
Anyone remember when memory went crazy prices for a bit?

Like 5 times at least since i started using computers, lets be more specific anyone remember those elite TwinMoss 2x 256MB Kits that came out around the XP2500 / Abit NF7-S time that everyone was buying and then there was an earthquake or something which skyrocketed the price of them, and hunting around you found Komplett to be the best priced!
It was whoever still had stock at the previous prices you could get your hands on.
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Reply #9 on: November 08, 2011, 08:47:50 AM
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on November 06, 2011, 16:40:51 PM
I found some 3Tb Seagate externals on Argos last week and bought 2 of them for just over £100 each - getting £40 of vouchers back too, but now I've ripped them out to use in my Microserver they have no warranty, I've just got to prey they last! I would have posted the deal on here but forgot in all my rushing

I've just checked some of the argos stores near me and there £119, some stores have 1 so it would be a bit of a trek to get 4, plus I can't afford them at the mo should be getting a my roof replaced at home so I'd have to wait till after that's sorted and paid for.  I'll see what happens in the new year if they can get production back up and running in say the first quarter next year then prices should drop quite quickly.
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Reply #10 on: November 08, 2011, 17:21:39 PM
Picked up a 3TB Seagate drive from my local Argos today, cheers for the heads up  :cheers:

I would have got a couple but it was the only one they had they had in stock unfortunately, I deleted and burned quite a lot of stuff to DVD the other day and have over 1TB spare ATM, I might just leave it unopened for a few weeks and see what sort of money they are going for on ebay and if the shortage gets worse before deciding to keep it or not.
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Reply #11 on: November 08, 2011, 18:01:38 PM
One of mine is a parity drive in my new unRAID box, if I could have afforded a third I'd have driven to another store! As it stands, I'll just wait for prices to drop again now. I won't buy another until they hit £100 again.
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Reply #12 on: December 29, 2011, 14:21:11 PM
Seeing as I dont really keep track of anything in the computer hardware industry any more are the prices currently being asked (£110 for WD and Seagate on Ebuyer) decent enough?

I've finally decided to get my microserver up and running. Gonna need to buy at least 2 if not 3 drives.
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Re: Flooding - HDD prices
Reply #13 on: December 29, 2011, 14:32:17 PM
I'd wait a little longer and check HUKD for deals, I still don't feel prices are acceptible yet. I won't buy another 3TB drive for my microserver until they hit £100 again.
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Reply #14 on: December 29, 2011, 14:35:23 PM
Cheers, I'm in no real rush yet. I have all I need in 250gb at the moment so I'll just stick with those until the time comes where hard drives are nice and cheap.

Cheapest I found so far are WD 2tb elements drives on PCworld, currently £90. Not enough of a bargain to stop me waiting.

Has a newer version of unRaid arrived yet Clock'd? You were talking about 3tb support in a new version.
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