Crackers aren't they :o nearly £200 for a 2TB!!!
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
That's pretty much triple the price from last time I looked! Samsung F4 @ £180!
I read people saying prices were going to triple over a few weeks and completely dismissed it, but, they have. Unbelievable.
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
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
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The version I've been running is v5.0 beta13 and it seems perfectly stable on 3Tb drives, there is a newer version available too. I still need to get around to writing up my unRAID setup guide, best get cracking while I've got some time off. I've nearly filled 3TB so I'm about to preclear my old 2TB drive to add to the array.
Well, looks like my gamble has come around to bite me on the arse, one of the HDDs is reporting read/write errors, doesn't spin up properly and seems to be at death's door, so that's £100 down the drain as I can't RMA it :( I need to get a replacement too and the cheapest are still around £140 (if you can find stock!)
The only good thing to come out of it is that I have more material for my unRAID guide to show what to do when your parity drive hoses itself...
I've switched the array offline until I can do further diagnosis on the drive or find a replacement. Thankfully its served its purpose, touchwood no data loss unless the other one craps itself - which it won't if I leave the array offline - anyone got recommendations on the best 3Tb model to go for?
Unlucky!
Did you have much stuff on the array? Its technically still there but if there's lots it'll take quite a while to rebuild once you get a drive.
I haven't really looked too hard recently as I can't afford them but I'll try and have a look around later and see if I can see anything. What was the drive you had that failed?
It was a Seagate.
I can still access the data fine, the parity drive which is the one that failed isn't striped or anything with the unRAID data drives, thats what makes it so good :) I can swap the drive whenever I want, but I won't use the other drives until I can rebuild the parity safely otherwise I'm not protected from another drive failure and statistically thats a little more likely given that I bought both these Seagate externals together.
Having just noticed I got a reply one of the guys on the Lime Tech forum who has had a look at the SMART data I provided for the drive, he seems to think the drive should be fine, so I'm attempting a parity rebuild and we'll see how it goes...
So it took about 9 hours to rebuild the parity drive :worried:
But it seems to be working fine - no errors reported - and the SMART logs obtained from unRAID appear to indicate that the drive is fine according to some of the guys on their forums. False alarm I guess! But I'll be keeping a close eye on it. ???
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hitachi-xl3000-3tb-external-desktop-hard-drive-store-comet-83-99-1126686
3Tb externals apparently £83.99 instore at some currys stores at the moment.
I'm also waiting for the prices to come back down, fingers crossed we get back to the £25 terabyte soon.
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on January 24, 2012, 20:20:33 PM
So it took about 9 hours to rebuild the parity drive :worried:
But it seems to be working fine - no errors reported - and the SMART logs obtained from unRAID appear to indicate that the drive is fine according to some of the guys on their forums. False alarm I guess! But I'll be keeping a close eye on it. ???
Bet that's a huge sigh of relief, 9 hours well spent if its a false alarm and you got some info for a guide :D
Quote from: sexytw on January 24, 2012, 20:26:16 PM
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hitachi-xl3000-3tb-external-desktop-hard-drive-store-comet-83-99-1126686
3Tb externals apparently £83.99 instore at some currys stores at the moment.
I'm also waiting for the prices to come back down, fingers crossed we get back to the £25 terabyte soon.
I know where I'm going tomorrow lunch time, I want an external drive for leaving at work with a backup of all my photos/music/junk and guess who got £50 from quidco last week :D Just have to buy it without the parents knowing, they've given me money to keep me going this month
Until I read this from the thread on hotukdeals
QuoteCalled Comet, spoke to helpful guy who checked the system and he said pretty much no stores in the North have them, discontinued item. Gutted!
bugger!
3 months and the prices are still sky high, this officially sucks :tinhat: I could do with some more space :thumbdown:
They're getting better though, hopefully give it another 2 months and we might be nearly there hope so I still need some hard drives for my microserver!
Don't expect prices to come down overnight, there was a lot of damage, plus Western Digital and Seagate are both affected. WD had to shut down up to 75% of it's production lines. Prices should be starting to drop slightly but it might be next year before the hike levels out.
They're not that far off though, in my not so scientific research (ie checking one website :D) 2tb are around £90-100 and 3tb are around £140 ish. They've both got about £30-40 to come down yet but they're getting there.
Pfft were just spoilt, go back to paying £1 per GB then you can complain :muttley:
15th June 2011
1 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI Spinpoint F4 SATA-II 3.5" Hard Drive @ 57.35GBP
I want cheaper damnit! :bow:
Quote from: matt5cott on February 09, 2012, 15:40:09 PM
15th June 2011
1 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI Spinpoint F4 SATA-II 3.5" Hard Drive @ 57.35GBP
I want cheaper damnit! :bow:
I need more space! I would buy like 5 drives if they were that price. I want to get my damn freenas box back up and running.
:tinhat: Price rises are all made up to get you lot to stop downloading! :tinhat:
Quote from: Bacon on February 10, 2012, 02:14:22 AM
:tinhat: Price rises are all made up to get you lot to stop downloading! :tinhat: