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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.
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12 comments:

  1. AdamNovember 26, 2011 at 11:43 AM

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

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  2. LizardmannnnNovember 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    @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. dfk35232November 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM

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

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  4. HasadNovember 26, 2011 at 1:29 PM

    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. Alex J. CavanaughNovember 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    That's good to know.

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  6. Pat HattNovember 26, 2011 at 4:26 PM

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

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  7. AnonymousNovember 26, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    Very informative!

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  8. AnonymousNovember 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    That's bad.

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  9. Lot's WifeNovember 26, 2011 at 7:31 PM

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

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  10. TeddiNovember 26, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    i have no idea wtf you're talking about.

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  11. ShawNovember 27, 2011 at 3:06 AM

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

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  12. fotonowoDecember 2, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    The trouble comes when there is not one (

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