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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Thailand Flood drastically increases Harddrive price!


Prices were reaching an all time low for all sizes until a monsoon hit Thailand. Prices are hovering around 50-60 for a terabyte (1000GB) hard drive now the prices are closer to $140. And its not just Western Digital's hard-drives Segate and Samsung also have manufacturing facilities in Thailand that have been effected by the flood.

Best solution? Buy and SSD drive instead as the prices are almost the same now :)

Hopefully in a few months the prices go back down.

12 comments:

  1. I can't believe how damaging the flood has been to Thailand.

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  2. @Nautral One yea same I was on newegg and was like wait somethings wrong here why are ssds cheaper than harddrives lol

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  3. Thats not good! Have to buy SSD's now!

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  4. good thing, cuz i just bought a 2tb this sumer, now having:
    1 80gb ide
    1 160gb sata
    1 500gb sata
    1 2tb sata, probably all add up to around 300 dollars lol

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  5. Hopefully they will go back down, SSD it is for now.

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  6. So water levels in Thailand and hard-drive prices are positively correlated... very interesting.

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  7. i have no idea wtf you're talking about.

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  8. I had to replace one of my HDD recently, man these prices suck :(

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  9. The trouble comes when there is not one (

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