Anyone else noticed the massive increase in hard drive prices due to the Thailand floods, and the fact that they are all being bought by the system manufacturing giants.
Check out the prices here (and notice that it’s set for lowest priced drives first):
http://www.ebuyer.com/search?page=1&sort=pricelow&limit=10&store=33&cat=392&filtersubcat=3265
and more info on what’s causing it here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221409/Hard_drive_shortage_expected_to_hurt_consumers_most
Oddly enough … if you now wanted a 2TB internal hard drive … it would now be nearly £100 cheaper to buy one of these NAS drives:
http://www.ebuyer.com/283921-zyxel-nsa310-2tb-1x-2tb-nas-drive-91-016-007009b
and take the drive out of it, than to buy the same Western Digital 2TB green drive alone:
http://www.ebuyer.com/264274-wd-2tb-3-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-caviar-green-hard-drive-64mb-cache-wd20earx
or nearly £250 cheaper than the WD 2TB black edition:
http://www.ebuyer.com/247563-wd-2tb-3-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-caviar-black-hard-drive-7200rpm-64mb-cache-wd2002faex