HD on one of the PCs has died and I need a replacement. I'd probably go with a [3.5"] SATA drive about 250gb+.
Had a look at scan.co.uk and dabs so far. Anybody found a good deal recently?
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Need a new hard drive - any good deals out there?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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Ebuyer is normally where I look. But HDD prices have rocketed since the flooding in Thailand as a large number of the warehouses were damaged and stock levels are low - or so I heard.
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Hard drive prices have rocketed recently due to the floods in Thailand. I'll ask Mr Toast, I know he's been looking at hard drives lately.
EDIT: Prezet beat me to it.
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possibly the worst time to buy a hard disk. due to flooding in east asia production of hard disks are seriously down. what used to be £30ish for a 1tb drive and £50ish for a 2tb drive
you're now looking at £120ish minimum for a £2tb drive.look into getting a ssd for just the os. and a stanadard sata for the rest.
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Apparently*, there's bin extensive flooding in SE Asia which has affected production, so prices are very high atm...
*A little bird told me...
There was a thread about this recently. Seems that the trick might be to but an external drive, then gut it for the drive inside the casing.
All very annoying as I need a new SATA drive myself. Might look in places like Tescos and that.
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haha hahaha hahahahaha
Yep defo wrong time, WD have stopped making them for the moment and Scan is limiting to 1 HDD per customer !Posted 6 months ago # -
The Velociraptor drives don't seem to have increased in price though, still expensive it you don't need one.
Posted 6 months ago # -
buy second hand if you can you can put a laptop drive in your pc if you want doesnt have to be a 3.5" - I'd scout out on ebay or any geeky mates
Posted 6 months ago # -
Some background informationabout the problem.
If you need a drive in a hurry, and have the cash, then an SSD might be a good option.
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^ that was a wry laugh BTW, I could do with a new hard drive
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Awww booger
I did think the prices seemed to be pretty high! As it happend I've got a spare 7gb SSD that I can put the OS on and an old small IDE drive that will do for a bit of storage so will do that for now and then buy a bigger SATA when priecs drop again and move the OS onto that.Posted 6 months ago # -
7gb SSD that I can put the OS on...
What OS is that? Win7 is a bitch to distribute over hard disks.Posted 6 months ago # -
good old XP. Should be able to have the OS only on the SSd and everything else on the IDE - unless someone corrects me!
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I was going to build my own PC until I saw the current disk prices...could buy the whole PC for £90 more than the hard disk so went for that....
http://www.ebuyer.com/251310-zoostorm-desktop-7873-1036Posted 6 months ago # -
A further update - There's going to be a shortage for the next year
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