Pre-flood HDD Prices

I'm doing an economics report on the the effect of the Thailand floods on HDD prices. Looking up current prizes is easy, but I don't really know where I would find the pre-flood prices. Simply put, if you know what pre-flood price you paid for your HDD, just post here!

I got some Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C drives (1TB) For about £40 ($63 USD) each around xmas time 2010.

The exact same disk from the same website is now: £79.99 ($126 USD)

bought a 1tb wd black 6gbs 64mb cache for $90 usd on newegg dec 2010

Internet archive:
Newegg right before the flood.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110313...re/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives

Check out the Newegg price history on the Samsung F3 1TB drive. It's INSANE!!!

http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822152185



The sad thing is that even though the manufacturing is finally picking up speed, the price gouging won't end anytime in the near future.

drka0tic said:

The sad thing is that even though the manufacturing is finally picking up speed, the price gouging won't end anytime in the near future.

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I'm sure you are correct.. My drive is currently dying so they will remain high till i buy one, then plummet a week later.

drka0tic said:

Check out the Newegg price history on the Samsung F3 1TB drive. It's INSANE!!!

http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822152185

The sad thing is that even though the manufacturing is finally picking up speed, the price gouging won't end anytime in the near future.

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WAIT A SECOND.

A Newegg price tracker?!

This is insanely helpful, thank you so much .

1TB 7200RPM Samsung drive was $59, 1.5TB 5400RPM was $89 and I think the 2TB 5400RPM was $119 through UMart Online...... I know as I only ever bother buying Samsung drives. Fast, quiet and reliable..... Why oh why did Seagate have to buy Samsungs HDD division..... Damnit!

It's weird how some computer parts we get cheaper here in Australia than the US, and then other parts (CPU's and mainboards mostly) cost more here than the US....

drka0tic said:

The sad thing is that even though the manufacturing is finally picking up speed, the price gouging won't end anytime in the near future.

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Just to elaborate on that.. A lot of the top companies like Dell for example are going to be high on the priority list for the new drives, not the people who are going to pay less and take smaller quantities. It'll take a while until the biggest companies are content, then supply will catch up on the lower end.

Good point. I can say goodbye to my plans to build a NAS server this year

I got a Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB (SATA III/64MB cache version) for $70 last Christmas (the one 15 months ago )

5/3/11

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136769
Standard Return Policy
This item is serviced by the Western Digital. Please call 800 832 4778 for service.

$89.98
($44.99 ea)

2/8/11

2

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD2500AAKX 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136771
Standard Return Policy
This item is serviced by the Western Digital. Please call 800 832 4778 for service.

$89.98
($44.99 ea)

11/25/8

2

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822148261
30 Day Return Policy
This item is serviced by the SeaGate. Please call 800 -732-4283 for service.

$99.98
($49.99 ea)

Most others I get local and the last big ones I got were a 2RB for 99 at BB and an external 2TB at BB for 109

The last I bought were 500GB lappy drives for a raid 10 on 11/27/11.

HITACHI 0Y30055 500GB 5400 RPM 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822145447
Standard Return Policy

$149.97
($49.99 ea)

Got mine 2TB F4 sometime in 2011 at $79.99 shipped.
It was spring or early summer.