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Author Ever wondered why hard drives are so expensive lately?
Sam
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26th Oct 11 at 10:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hard drives from manufacturers like Western Digital are in seriously short supply at the moment due to the floods in Thailand:
adiohead
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26th Oct 11 at 10:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
This is when all our hard drives fail at the same time
Sam
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This may well affect consumer electronics too as there are other companies like Sony in that industrial park too.
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26th Oct 11 at 11:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Bet it will be hard to drive through that flood
John
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26th Oct 11 at 11:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Enta group?
Sam
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26th Oct 11 at 11:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah, how did you know?
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
Bet it will be hard to drive through that flood


yes, if you tried in a paper car, it would end up being a floppy drive
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26th Oct 11 at 11:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we moaned like fuck at our supplier this week as our WD drives had gone up buy 5quid per drive! they said it was due to floods we were not so sure lol!

maybe it was..
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Yeah, how did you know?


Got it here.
Sam
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£5 only? That's not bad... Most prices have gone up at least 20/30%...

I hope they get it sorted soon, Thailand only accounts for 25% of the global WD hard drive production so they'll have to increase production at the other plants in Malaysia and the USA to make up for it.
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Sam you are really concerned about this aernt you my lovely, would you like a cuddle?
Sam
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I'd like the price of hard drives to go down again, but yes I'll take the cuddle too.
Nismo
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Check the prices now! ouch! we got about 20 in but wishing we got 40 odd in now!!

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/cat/Hard-Drive---Internal
John
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I paid £60 for a 2TB Samsung a few weeks ago.
Nismo
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John you sould have not bothered with trying to make a profit on the iPhone, drives is where it was at! we were getting the 2TB's for 50quid, I could have made some good profit on them!!
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9th Nov 11 at 17:03   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I paid 54 for some 2Tb the other week.

They're not going for that much more used to make it worthwhile moving them on.
Nismo
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian

They're not going for that much more used to make it worthwhile moving them on.


WD drives 2TB's are now 150+
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Second hand ones aren't.
Nismo
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they wouldnt be used though, they would be brand new?
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No I opened them and used for half an hour.
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got 2 of these in store at asda in october, they scanned at £20
http://direct.asda.com/Verbatim-500GB-53014-Portable-Hard-Drive-USB-2.0-Black/000507971,default,pd.html?cm_mmc=Shopping%20Engines%20ASDA%20Direct-_-Google%20Base-_-Hard%20Drives%20%26%20Software-_-Verbatim%20500GB%2053014%20Portable%20Hard%20Drive%20USB%202.0%20Black&istCompanyId=71f4ae42-94c5-4821-aa58-05eff6da2486&istItemId=wtaqatxq&istBid=t

 
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