I just checked my download stats, in the past weeks, I downloaded around 500GB's of data. But I have limited HDD space and thought why they're cheap and I should get a new one. BIG mistake it turns out there is a huge market shortage of HDD's because of floods in Thailand. They're responsible for 70~80% of HDD supply and they make the sliders and other components for major HDD manufacturers. This means, the price of HDD's will double, this might be a scam but it's really mad timing for me. Considering I already planned a new HDD this month.
To top it off, the price list is removed from websites and now it's just call to confirm things. This is really bad, worse than any other crisis I can think off, especially because it directly hurts me, the worse part is, it's just the start.
I will most likely buy 1TB Seagate drive or just wait for things to settle down. In SHORT, HURRY AND BUY HDD's!
Read more:http://www.blackfridaycountdown.net/2011/10/no-black-friday-2011-hard-drive-deals.htmlhttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/Thai_flooding_disrupting_hard_drive_supplies_999.htmlhttp://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/news/hard-drive-shortage-expected-to-hurt-consumers-most
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I have a 150gig hardrive + two 40 gig harddrives lying about. I'll barely use 10% of it.
If worse comes to worst i have a ten megabyte hard-drive from the early 90's that i can store half a pdf on.
3TB Shortage, badly need 2TB.
... No thanks. I will just buy some DVD's and wait for the World to end . The shipping alone will kill me.
1Tb £49.99
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/3-5-inch-hard-drives/715_7052_70056_xx_BA00003046-BV00252001/xx-criteria.html
or 3 Tb for £149.99
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/3-5-inch-hard-drives/715_7052_70056_xx_BA00003046-BV00252003/xx-criteria.html
seems to work out about £50 per Tb
Ah I go for external Hard Drives as I use a laptop. Got 2 x 1TB drives that are Western Digital. One of them broke 3 times and I had to keep returning it which pissed me off a treat. Would love a 2TB one but I just hope they are stable. I got the 1TB drives when they were relatively new and this is when they began to fudge up.
Not good
I envy you .
At the back of my mind I wonder if it isn't an excuse to ramp up prices since they were so cheap £35 for 1TB..
Well, I just found out about it today . I think this happened around 26th October.
When I was doing support at KSU the Assistant Director of the University Architects office got 3 virus in 3 weeks. The first time I just re-imaged his machine, re-added it to the OU, and gave ti back that day. The second time I went through his index.dat file as he was an IE user and found he was going to transvestite websites and sites the sold lingerie made for men to wear. I repeated the steps as before and gave him back the machine with the advise that he not go to sites that were not work related to avoid the problem in the future and left it at that. When it happened the third time I backed up his index.dat file on the nix box in my office, repeated the previous steps, and when I returned the system I showed him the index.dat file on the share. I showed him how it had his domain user name tied to the site he was visiting and let him know that if I had to fix the problem again it would cost him to keep my mouth shut. Oddly he never has a service ticket again for over the next year that I supported his office.
I just had a 640gb WD Blue crash (transportation from one hot dusty place to another couldn't have helped) so I'm in the market for a new HDD too..
If you need some dirty deeds done dirt cheap there's some Amazon sellers selling 4gb MicroSDs for $0.02 a pop. Not sure how that translates into AraBucks. Obviously they get you in shipping but maybe you could overcome that if you order a bunch, pay shipping once plus a percentage not sure how that works. Probably changes seller-seller. If you're into thermite you can get a Maxtor drive, they go pretty budget prices per gig. For porn space, make sure you ditch any duplicates or even replace them with shortcuts so it doesn't fuck with how you organize your porn. 7zip 7zip 7zip. If you can get your hands on an old computer you could rip out the drive format it and shove some less important stuff on there (drive might not be the most reliable). Even like 20gb that way helps -- that's a game or two right there. Maybe give up some stuff that's easy to get like iso's for Windows Whatever and such. If you have any uncompressed audio convert it into FLAC or even OGG if you're a jew. OGG has pretty good sound quality even at lowest settings. For software you haven't used in a long time or aren't sure you really need you can uninstall and keep the ISOs. Do disk clean up / sort through your recycle bin that's obvious.
That should tide you over until those Thais turn their peanut sauce into a floating harddrive factory. I'll edit if I think of anything new.