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Need more storage space? If you don't fancy yourself a gambler, it's a good idea to shop hard drives now rather than roll the dice that prices for mechanical storage will stay dirt cheap. The flooding in Thailand hit the hard drive industry pretty hard and it's now expected that HDD prices will go up as component costs rise and inventory gets low.
According to DigiTimes, all hard drive makers are affected by this, including Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi, and Toshiba. The flooding has also washed through the factories of several supply chain component makers, which has a trickle down effect. New reports suggest it will take longer than initially anticipated to resume production at previous levels, or at any level at all. With that in mind, DigiTimes' sources are confident prices will go up starting in November.
Demand for HDDs has fallen flat in recent months because of the demand for tablet PCs, but is suddenly picking up as HDD makers worry about the flood causing shortages.
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ez223
October 27, 2011 at 1:19am
Newegg has now increased the price of Western Digital RE4 2TB drives $100.00, to $299.99. Crazy!
ez223
October 20, 2011 at 11:33pm
Newegg has already increased prices $40 - $50 per HDD for the larger sized ones.
germanogre
October 19, 2011 at 6:23pm
Who didn't see this coming? I'll be expecting another 'costs will go up by 10 percent, so we'll be charging 30 percent more' like we heard from Jif peanut butter.
fygquas
October 19, 2011 at 5:56pm
It's speculations like these that jack up prices. Yes, there's a shortage in supply but there's no reason to jack up prices. It's not like Japanese cars cost much more after the earthquake/tsunami disasters.
Coldrage
October 19, 2011 at 10:48am
Going up?
I bought a 1TB SS F3 last year for £39
This year it's still sitting around £39 - £43 so prices don't seem to be going anywhere.
iheartpcs
October 19, 2011 at 12:09pm
They're not talking about the last year, they're talking about in the future.
