Reply to: Price of storage

[PAH]

SSD's don't seem to be affected which I had overlooked when I built my PC, extra RAM used to be the cheapest way of boosting performance but nowadays when most people have plenty the SSD is the best boost per buck upgrade.

Yep. I've 2 x 60gb SSDs in my PC. One for O/S and one for several virtual machines with auto expanding drives so smallest only taking up 2gb. Best upgrade ever (SSDs and Virtual Box for the VMs).

Though I've had SSDs as main drives in my laptop and PC for years, while AtW was banging on about reliability and not yet ready for mainstream.

Larger drives only really necessary for long term storage. Got a few hundred gig left on my NAS before I need to worry about mechanical HD prices. Hopefully prices will come back down by then.

[gingerjedi]

Well I never.

I bought a 1Tb WD drive for £36 last month, £105 now.

SSD's don't seem to be affected which I had overlooked when I built my PC, extra RAM used to be the cheapest way of boosting performance but nowadays when most people have plenty the SSD is the best boost per buck upgrade.

[TheFaQQer]

I've just been configuring a possible new laptop.

It's significantly cheaper to put a 1TB drive in than a 640GB or 750GB drive (all the same spec as each other)

[PAH]

I read that Seagate etc will be ramping up production to take market share from WD, as only WD are badly affected.

So there's a chance that prices will become reasonable again soon, providing there's no artificial (and illegal ) price fixing going on, cashing in on the opportunity to raise prices.

It's currently like petrol stations putting prices up when there's a fuel blockade, surrendering to greed. I'm boycotting buying until prices come down again.

[TheFaQQer]

So, a good reason to go SSD?

HDD prices have got to go significantly higher before a 1TB SSD becomes worthwhile

[d000hg]

So, a good reason to go SSD?

[Sysman]

I know the feeling If I had got wind of it sooner I would quite happily have bought 100 3.5" drives as could have doubled money. Not sure the Mrs would have like me storing them in the living room and giving her the job of posting them all when sold on ebay though .

It could have been worse. I'm just glad I bought the ones I needed back then

[administrator]

Rats. I bought a couple of drives the other week. Should have bought more.

I know the feeling If I had got wind of it sooner I would quite happily have bought 100 3.5" drives as could have doubled money. Not sure the Mrs would have like me storing them in the living room and giving her the job of posting them all when sold on ebay though

Where do you normally get them from? Just to add somewhere else to the list of potential places to buy from

What, standard hard drives? I use ebuyer for pretty much all my gear but have looked at overclockers recently for a pre-built PC as not got the time to build myself any more. Have also used Dabs, MicroDirect and Scan in the past. Bought the external harddrives on Wednesday from the Comet down the road! Bought some on offer ones from PC World as well - a 2TB one for £69 which was a bit of a bargain but they were limiting purchases to three drives per customer due to directive from head office as all drives being bought up.

[TheFaQQer]

Seen the price of hard drives over the last week or so?

Bought 4 1TB drives on 14th Oct for £153 they are now £129 each

All hard drive stock has shot up in price due to the floods in Thailand apparently. Resellers making a lot of money out of this but sounds like supply may be low until 2nd quarter next year.

Where do you normally get them from? Just to add somewhere else to the list of potential places to buy from

[Sysman]

Rats. I bought a couple of drives the other week. Should have bought more.

[administrator]

Unlock TPD and see how we go

On a much pokier server than when I had to close that down, just had a quick play on it and it is not too bad. With a few server tweaks it could be manageable. Nick was going to have a look at some optimisation tricks as well and need him to do some more patching work on here soon so will definitely look into it

[TheFaQQer]

Was not aware the forums were flaky...

Unlock TPD and see how we go

[administrator]

No onder the forums are so flakey if you are buying cheap HDD

Was not aware the forums were flaky... These were just some standard SATA drives for a backup machine here.

I spent a bit of time Wednesday trying to track down what drives I could but everywhere was pretty much sold out. Best I could find was some external 1TB drives at £50 - everywhere now has them on at £70-80 so will look flog them on when prices rise a bit more. Happily have no plans for new servers or desktops here for the foreseeable future. Some quite cheap desktops still on ebuyer where the cost of the machine is only a few quid more than the cost of the hard drive inside it, might buy 10 or so of these to flog on next year when they will be double the price.

[eek]

What have HDD got to do with Thailand?

Its where they moved the factories to once China became too expensive.

[chef]

What have HDD got to do with Thailand?