Read more.Consumers indirectly affected by problems with hard disk production.
Read more.Consumers indirectly affected by problems with hard disk production.
I know that a few SIs are having problems shipping systems because hard-drive inventory is so low.
Building my brother a PC on a tight budget at the moment.....looks like he's going to have to rough it on a spare 320GB drive I got kicking around.....at least until prices drop.
5 months until prices start to recover - *sad panda*
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Well that's going to kill the budget on those shiny storage arrays I had planned at work!
The pricing is absolutely mental. Some of the drives have literally jumped in price by over 100%
Was hoping to build a new system after christmas. Gutted. No chance I'm spending £200 on a decent sized hdd. Was only looking about £50 before the shortage. I'll wait it out.
Hmm, I was looking for a 1TB WD USB3 bus-powered drive at the weekend and was shocked to see that not only was Scan more expensive than PC World, but Western Digital's own store was cheaper too.
Wonder if these shortages are to blame - with PC World and WD having larger stocks of drives at the old prices than Scan?
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I'm starting to fill my current hard drive so it looks like I better hunt down a cheap one whilst I still can.
If you can.
As for the shortage, I'd say the extent of damage to production facilities key. How long will factories be out of order? Can factories elsewhere pick up the slack, and to what extent?
Personally, while I was about to add some capacity, I'm not in any great hurry, so I'll wait it out. If that takes a year or two, so be it. I'm certainly not paying prices that look to me, judging by the speed of increase, to be sheer profiteering .... though by who and at what point in the chain is not clear.
prices are Crazy atm, I mean 100%+ increase on some drives!
Glad I bought another 2TB drive for my file server last month now
Meh this will just push sales of SSD. The mechanical drive pricing is rediculous
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