Harddrive Prices

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad I wont be needing drives any time soon.

[root@borg ~]# df -hl
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             433G   11G  400G   3% /
/dev/sda1             190M   25M  156M  14% /boot
tmpfs                 3.8G   48K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/md0              4.5T  2.3T  2.0T  54% /raid1
[root@borg ~]#

Recently added another 1TB drive to my raid array. There is a hot spare, and I have 3 spare drives.

I also have 4 IBM SAN enclosures with drives in them, but I tend to leave those turned off, they are electricity vampires.

 

[Mike64]

What specific models are you looking for that have went up 100% in a few weeks?

I don't know what's wrong but the forum won't let me post multiple URLs and keeps mangling my posts. Newegg's prices really have shot up in the past 10-14 days. Suffice it to say, without hot linked examples, that until about 10-14 days ago, the Samsung F3 1 TB was about $70 shipped ($60 on sale recently, $50 last Spring when I got mine), and the F4 2 TB was $80-90. Newegg's prices tend to jump around but those are certainly the right range. Currently, they're going for $140 shipped and $237 shipped. I don't remember which brands/models, but you could get a couple different 3TB drives for $130, shipped. The cheapest is now nearly $300 shipped.

That being said, I've seen lower prices than Newegg's around the web, sometimes only in brick & mortar stores where available, not necessarily for OEM drives, etc. and since I haven't actually tried to buy any of them, I don't know if they're reliable sellers or necessarily in stock, etc.


I'm one of those people laughing at himself for waffling over whether to get a 2 or 3 TB drive, and deciding to wait to see what showed up with Seagate's 1 TB platters and/or Black Friday! I certainly am waiting now , though I'm not overly pessimistic and don't expect it to be quite the endless catastrophe some have suggested.

 

[greenhawk]

local store I was checking last night (2TB WD Green), gone up to over twice it's previous price and it is still going up ever few days by $5-10.

 

[thescreensavers]

Well I went to bestbuy today since the computer was ordered, and luckily I got the last seagate 1TB drive for 66 bucks.

I also need another drive only like 250gb but they wanted 60 bucks for it so ill wait until prices come down for that.

I also went to Compusa but the prices were dumb

Also at both bestbuy and Compusa had someone come in and buy 4-6k worth of Hard Drives. Holy damn someone is going to resell them ha

 

[choliscott]

Speaking of HD prices. I went to Fry's tonight & they had an Hatachi 3 TB Cool & Quiet for $159.99 In the ad (that starts tomorrow), they have the price as $169.99

 

[Sephire]

It was $109 not long ago.

 

[randomrogue]

I bought a couple WD 2TB Greens for $65 and they're $150 now.

Don't buy a hard drive unless you really need to. They're gouging.

 

[groberts101]

Don't buy a hard drive unless you really need to. They're gouging.

yep.. good advice right there. If they want to charge you $300 bucks for something that was just $129 last week?.. be offended and pass. When they eventually start collecting dust on their shelves?.. they will be forced to drop prices to sell their merchandise.

Supply shortages can surely drive prices up. But demand.. will surely bring them back down to earth. We as consumers, have more power to control the market than most realize. :thumbsup:

Not saying to start a boycott.. just don't be so quick to bend over.. and just wait a bit till that suppliers stiffy goes down a bit. Then it won't hurt so much later on, right?

 

[0roo0roo]

Speaking of HD prices. I went to Fry's tonight & they had an Hatachi 3 TB Cool & Quiet for $159.99 In the ad (that starts tomorrow), they have the price as $169.99

yea some amazon prices are insane, some are reasonable, pretty confusing.

glad i got some of those target clearance externals a few months back, im covered for some time to come..

in any case if you've ever dug out any old receipts for your stuff...omg these prices are nothing.

 

[Blain]

in any case if you've ever dug out any old receipts for your stuff...omg these prices are nothing.

I agree 100%