SwanNeck Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Just noticed that the price of computer hard drives have doubled or even tripled, 1Tb drive last week would cost around £40 - 50, is now £100. I've been keeping my eye on the Seagate Momentus XT 500Gb Hybrid drive, was on overclockers last week for £89, now it's £155!! Did a wee bit of digging about an I htink i've found the answer to why this has shot up in price, the Chinese are responsible!! http://latestchina.com/article/?rid=39354 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 This isn't a price hike. There's been mass flooding in Thailand, 80% of the worlds HDD's are made there. More specifically, the motors used in them. HDD prices are going to sky rocket over the next few months till things get back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanNeck Posted October 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 Ah ok, I should read the news more then I guess lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 I've been wanting to buy a new standard hard drive, something in the 1-2 TB region.Think I'm gonna update my system drive to a fast SSD first though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 It's moments like these where you kick yourself for not going for the upgrade while the prices were good. I was intending to go SSD for the "working" drive with a cheap few TB storage. D'oh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 @Spinner 72Yeah SSD drives are the way to go I reckon for your operating system drive.I've noticed massive differences in the read/write figures of the SSD's I've looked at, It's something I'll have to research further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 SSD's are starting to come down to £1/GB, making them a little more reasonable. I currently have a 1TB HDD for my main boot drive and a 2TB drive for work and Steam games (it has 913GB free... 98% of that is Steam games X_X). I was needing to buy a new 2 or 3TB HDD for my file server... I think it'll have to wait till this situation is sorted out. Still, good news for companies that bought a lot of HDD stock recently, make a huge profit off them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanNeck Posted October 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 Well if its SSDs your looking for then don't go for the traditional 2.5" SSD's, i'd be going for the PCI-E SSD drives, superior read/write speeds but slightly pricier... http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-x2-pci-express-ssd.html And if money is no object.... http://www.ebuyer.com/278529-ocz-480gb-revodrive-3-x2-pci-e-ssd-read-1500mb-s-write-1250mb-s-rvd3x2-fhpx4-480g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted October 28, 2011 Report Share Posted October 28, 2011 On the plus side - RAM prices have been dropping through the floor and are forecast to keep going for a bit yet. Now is an excellent time to load up a box for VM duties. My dosh is too thin on the ground ATM to even look at SSD drives. I would love one but they dinnae look nearly reliable enough to avoid having to replace them as seams to be their way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted October 29, 2011 Report Share Posted October 29, 2011 Looks like I upgraded at the right time then. I just built a rig with a 120Gb SSD and 2x2Tb HDD's. The SSD is awesome. 2 seconds from clicking the Firefox icon to browsing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 Nice, that exactly what I was thinking of! (minus FF of course! lol) Tempted to still go for the SSD and just use the external storage I have for now, but will probably kick myself for not waiting as SSD's continue to improve.. Not like its anything new - I remember swithering over whether or not to upgrade to ZX80 from the 4k to 8k ROM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlin13 Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 Paid £350 squids for a massive 1MB !!!! "gold card" ram upgrade for my QLThat must be over a grand in todays money !!!!!!!!!!This was when HD's were just becoming available well to ordinary punters, but i thought the 4MB was just to dear.Still got that QL somewhere will need to give it a run for old times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 ^^ Jealous! Stupidly I sold my QL ages ago during a clear out, regretted it since. A 32bit multitasking windowed environment released 12 days before that Mackintosh thing Apple made.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted October 31, 2011 Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 I wonder how a collection of SSD's in a RAID configuration, as used by video editing people, would work, how much better is it? if any? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanKZ Posted October 31, 2011 Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 On the plus side - RAM prices have been dropping through the floor and are forecast to keep going for a bit yet. Now is an excellent time to load up a box for VM duties. I bought 8GB DDR3-PC1333 for £40 yesterday from OCUK. To put this into perspective it cost me £100 for 4GB of the same speed in April last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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