Think Thrice Before Buying a New HDD This Year

DfgDfg Admin
edited November 2011 in Tech & Games
I just checked my download stats, in the past weeks, I downloaded around 500GB's of data. But I have limited HDD space and thought why they're cheap and I should get a new one. BIG mistake it turns out there is a huge market shortage of HDD's because of floods in Thailand. They're responsible for 70~80% of HDD supply and they make the sliders and other components for major HDD manufacturers. This means, the price of HDD's will double, this might be a scam but it's really mad timing for me. Considering I already planned a new HDD this month.

To top it off, the price list is removed from websites and now it's just call to confirm things. This is really bad, worse than any other crisis I can think off, especially because it directly hurts me, the worse part is, it's just the start.


I will most likely buy 1TB Seagate drive or just wait for things to settle down. In SHORT, HURRY AND BUY HDD's!
Read more:
http://www.blackfridaycountdown.net/2011/10/no-black-friday-2011-hard-drive-deals.html
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Thai_flooding_disrupting_hard_drive_supplies_999.html
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/news/hard-drive-shortage-expected-to-hurt-consumers-most

Comments

  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited November 2011
    I can probably weather out the shortage. I really hate my data anyway.

    I have a 150gig hardrive + two 40 gig harddrives lying about. I'll barely use 10% of it.

    If worse comes to worst i have a ten megabyte hard-drive from the early 90's that i can store half a pdf on. :p
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    I can probably weather out the shortage. I really hate my data anyway.

    I have a 150gig hardrive + two 40 gig harddrives lying about. I'll barely use 10% of it.

    If worse comes to worst i have a ten megabyte hard-drive from the early 90's that i can store half a pdf on. :p

    3TB Shortage, badly need 2TB.
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    Just talked to my local Vendors, 3000 Rs increase in prices, they're not even selling HDD"s to anyone unless you buy a full system. This sucks man. This really fucking sucks.
  • jehsiboijehsiboi Kanga Rump Ranga
    edited November 2011
    I bought a seagate hdd 2tb yesterday for $120. I'll sellit to you for 220 ... Deal?
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    jehsiboi wrote: »
    I bought a seagate hdd 2tb yesterday for $120. I'll sellit to you for 220 ... Deal?

    ... No thanks. I will just buy some DVD's and wait for the World to end :(. The shipping alone will kill me.
  • RemadERemadE Global Moderator
    edited November 2011
    Damn, never would have thought of this. Prices don't seem to have increased that much here in the UK, but I suppose it depends on what brand you go for.
  • chippychippy <b style="color:pink;">Global Moderator</b>
    edited November 2011
  • PacoPaco me administrator
    edited November 2011
    Just buy an External HD for your storage?
  • RemadERemadE Global Moderator
    edited November 2011
    chippy wrote: »

    Ah I go for external Hard Drives as I use a laptop. Got 2 x 1TB drives that are Western Digital. One of them broke 3 times and I had to keep returning it which pissed me off a treat. Would love a 2TB one but I just hope they are stable. I got the 1TB drives when they were relatively new and this is when they began to fudge up.
  • kfc v lotkfc v lot Regular
    edited November 2011
    Well I was rather lucky picked up a WD external for £50 before everyone raised their prices, I had a load of bits in a basket on a store for a potential system looked and the price had jumped up. I checked and basically all HDD had tripled in price and then I did some digg and fond the Thailand stuff..
    Not good
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    kfc v lot wrote: »
    Well I was rather lucky picked up a WD external for £50 before everyone raised their prices, I had a load of bits in a basket on a store for a potential system looked and the price had jumped up. I checked and basically all HDD had tripled in price and then I did some digg and fond the Thailand stuff..
    Not good

    I envy you :(.
  • kfc v lotkfc v lot Regular
    edited November 2011
    It's mad it's gone up to £90 which in comparison is mad http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/western-digital-elements-external-hard-drive-1tb-03661634-pdt.html which is cheap in comparison to http://www.ebuyer.com/174844-western-digital-elements-1tb-external-hard-drive-hi-speed-usb-retail-wdbaau0010hbk-uesn £125 :O
    At the back of my mind I wonder if it isn't an excuse to ramp up prices since they were so cheap £35 for 1TB..
  • white88enochianwhite88enochian Regular
    edited November 2011
    this is old news they said it would happen microcenter is had signs up for a month or 2 saying you can only buy one hdd at a time
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    this is old news they said it would happen microcenter is had signs up for a month or 2 saying you can only buy one hdd at a time

    Well, I just found out about it today :(. I think this happened around 26th October.
  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited November 2011
    Paco wrote: »
    Just buy an External HD for your storage?
    This is what I do...^ Then rip it out of it's case and throw it into my computer. :D The externals seem to sell @ special prices more than the internals. I scored a 2tb for $60 NZ about a couple of months ago.
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    I have an external 160Gig but an asshole who I will not name but is generally known as fucking RAVEN is using it as his personal drive, according to him since I have TB of storage he needs it more, fucking asshole, yeah thanks for bumping this thread. I am really short on HD space, guess I should stop downloading porn but come on the new games are out as well and they're like fucking big.
  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited November 2011
    I've heard you mention raven a couple of times, who is he ? Is he in PK ?
  • chippychippy <b style="color:pink;">Global Moderator</b>
    edited November 2011
    (ask him about Raven's bike) :D
  • LSA KingLSA King Regular
    edited November 2011
    I just checked out Newegg today to window shop as I do once a week. Looked up HDD prices and saw 2TB drives went from $119-$139 up to $399. Holy crap, I guess they weren't lying about those HDD shortages after that flood over in asia. Well, I don't really need to upgrade, but that's what those cock suckers get for shipping our jobs overseas to those gooks. Hope it costs them billions. SSD's are now looking more feasible for a next upgrade.
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited November 2011
    That's insane. I mean wow.
  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited November 2011
    Dfg wrote: »
    guess I should stop downloading porn but come on the new games are out as well and they're like fucking big.
    You know I do computer repairs, yah? If it wasn't for porn on peoples HDs, I would lose interest in that job. Prying through ones HD is like unwrapping a present at christmas time. Keep up the good work!:thumbsup:
  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited November 2011
    bornkiller wrote: »
    You know I do computer repairs, yah? If it wasn't for porn on peoples HDs, I would lose interest in that job. Prying through ones HD is like unwrapping a present at christmas time. Keep up the good work!:thumbsup:

    When I was doing support at KSU the Assistant Director of the University Architects office got 3 virus in 3 weeks. The first time I just re-imaged his machine, re-added it to the OU, and gave ti back that day. The second time I went through his index.dat file as he was an IE user and found he was going to transvestite websites and sites the sold lingerie made for men to wear. I repeated the steps as before and gave him back the machine with the advise that he not go to sites that were not work related to avoid the problem in the future and left it at that. When it happened the third time I backed up his index.dat file on the nix box in my office, repeated the previous steps, and when I returned the system I showed him the index.dat file on the share. I showed him how it had his domain user name tied to the site he was visiting and let him know that if I had to fix the problem again it would cost him to keep my mouth shut. Oddly he never has a service ticket again for over the next year that I supported his office.
  • bornkillerbornkiller Administrator In your girlfriends snatch
    edited November 2011
    When I was doing support at KSU the Assistant Director of the University Architects office got 3 virus in 3 weeks. The first time I just re-imaged his machine, re-added it to the OU, and gave ti back that day. The second time I went through his index.dat file as he was an IE user and found he was going to transvestite websites and sites the sold lingerie made for men to wear. I repeated the steps as before and gave him back the machine with the advise that he not go to sites that were not work related to avoid the problem in the future and left it at that. When it happened the third time I backed up his index.dat file on the nix box in my office, repeated the previous steps, and when I returned the system I showed him the index.dat file on the share. I showed him how it had his domain user name tied to the site he was visiting and let him know that if I had to fix the problem again it would cost him to keep my mouth shut. Oddly he never has a service ticket again for over the next year that I supported his office.
    I repaired a computer for a prominent judge once and discovered it had lesbo pr0n on it. Man had good taste in porn. Nothing worse than a penis in the picture unless it's my own
  • ZAPcomixZAPcomix New Arrival
    edited November 2011
    This really sucks the milk off my cow's boob.

    I just had a 640gb WD Blue crash (transportation from one hot dusty place to another couldn't have helped) so I'm in the market for a new HDD too..

    If you need some dirty deeds done dirt cheap there's some Amazon sellers selling 4gb MicroSDs for $0.02 a pop. Not sure how that translates into AraBucks. Obviously they get you in shipping but maybe you could overcome that if you order a bunch, pay shipping once plus a percentage not sure how that works. Probably changes seller-seller. If you're into thermite you can get a Maxtor drive, they go pretty budget prices per gig. For porn space, make sure you ditch any duplicates or even replace them with shortcuts so it doesn't fuck with how you organize your porn. 7zip 7zip 7zip. If you can get your hands on an old computer you could rip out the drive format it and shove some less important stuff on there (drive might not be the most reliable). Even like 20gb that way helps -- that's a game or two right there. Maybe give up some stuff that's easy to get like iso's for Windows Whatever and such. If you have any uncompressed audio convert it into FLAC or even OGG if you're a jew. OGG has pretty good sound quality even at lowest settings. For software you haven't used in a long time or aren't sure you really need you can uninstall and keep the ISOs. Do disk clean up / sort through your recycle bin that's obvious.

    That should tide you over until those Thais turn their peanut sauce into a floating harddrive factory. I'll edit if I think of anything new.
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