Mechanical Hard Drive Prices Going Up And Up

Post by **madman045** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:49 pm

<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20124 ... -analysts/" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20124 ... alysts/</a>

Due to all the flooding in Thailand, 70-80% of the motors used in HDD's are produced in Thailand, also WD produce a vast amount of drives in the country

2TB drives are now around the Â£80 mark and might get higher

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:53 pm

Just got in on 2tb for 65 on misco ebay shop

Post by **Hammer** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:56 pm

Prices went up 4% last week and they are expected to rise between 10%_20% this week.

Post by **Trig** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:39 pm

SSD's ftw..

Be interesting to see how retailers respond to this, the drives they have in stock and the ones currently "in the chain" wont be effected but newer ones will, so tbh prices shouldnt go up for ~2 months..

See how many cash in on the floods...

Post by **Rasputin** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:57 pm

Aria have already added Â£30 on the 1 TB drives!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Nellyboy** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:05 pm

The prices have gone up on existing stock too. Thread on ocuk lambasting the boss directly. Expect it is taken down already

Post by **Claw** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:34 pm

Hmm... not good news... this is going to have an impact on a lot of areas...

Post by **Trig** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:45 pm

Nellyboy wrote: The prices have gone up on existing stock too. Thread on ocuk lambasting the boss directly. Expect it is taken down already

Wouldnt be the first and wont be the last thread about Spie being a cock tho..

Post by **Hammer** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:12 am

Scan had put a post up two weeks ago on their Facebook page saying of the price increase of around 4% from last week. Also they posted last week about the 10%-20% price increase from this week. They also said that they would hold prices until yesterday and that they would keep their stock for retail customers and stop supplying to the trade until after Christmas.
Even Ocuk said last week on their Facebook page about price increases from this week.