Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly?

**Kain** · 10-30-11, 08:25 AM

Few months ago is was $79.99. Today is it $189.00. What is causing this?

10-30-11, 08:49 AM

Liberals

**Starscream** · 10-30-11, 12:54 PM

Prices for basically ALL hard drives are up right now due to flooding in Asia.

Most hard drive prices have doubled at the distributors I deal with. Luckily I've got a bunch of stock I bought before this insanity.

**bacon12** · 10-30-11, 01:03 PM

Yea it probably didn't seriously hurt supply that much, but it was a good reason to raise the price. I am not really worried, I have a bunch of platter drives. Over 5tb worth. My next HD purchase will be a handful of SSD drives in raid, hopefully it won't effect those prices as well.

Johnny C · 10-30-11, 03:05 PM

Yeah, not a single platter drive onsale off NCIX, I'm sure the egg is the same. Good news is that price of SSD's is getting better every month.

frenchy2k1 · 11-01-11, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by bacon12

Yea it probably didn't seriously hurt supply that much, but it was a good reason to raise the price. I am not really worried, I have a bunch of platter drives. Over 5tb worth. My next HD purchase will be a handful of SSD drives in raid, hopefully it won't effect those prices as well.

Supply is not immediately hurt, however, most HDD fabs in Thailand are closed and flooded right now. Some of those are the unique suppliers of parts for HDDs, so the supply will dry up. The answer from the channel has been to ration how many drives people can buy and raise prices. It may take a few months for the situation to stabilize.

SSD should be unaffected except that demand for them may increase as a result. Depending on supply, this may drive prices up or down.

**john19055** · 11-04-11, 01:16 PM

I started to buy another samsung 1Tb ,but I seen the price and I think I have plenty to hold me over ,I paid $119 for two Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM and now one cost $139.95

**nekrosoft13** · 11-04-11, 01:57 PM

that green that died on me, i got it for 70 some bucks couple months ago. once i get a refurb from WD i will sell it on ebay for 150+

**lduguay** · 11-04-11, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

that green that died on me, i got it for 70 some bucks couple months ago. once i get a refurb from WD i will sell it on ebay for 150+

Might as well ride the wave while it's still flooded

**nekrosoft13** · 11-05-11, 12:06 AM

true, i will be getting rid of all my green drives.

**bacon12** · 11-05-11, 10:26 AM

I have a bunch of drives I need to sell if they are that expensive on fleabay.

**FastRedPonyCar** · 11-07-11, 09:18 AM

I ordered another 2TB samsung F4 a couple of weeks ago for $89 shipped from newegg.

Today it's $230

I was planning on re-organizing all my movies on a few of the F4's inside this thing

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817576001

I guess not anymore. :/ Maybe prices will go back down in a couple of months. From what I've read, there's really not even a real shortage on anything right now. I think it's the market's hysteria partly to blame. Kinda like during hurricane season when an oil rig gets hit, all of a sudden the media makes it out like there will be a terrible gasoline shortage/famine and all the retards buy into it and gas stations suddenly are charging a buck more per gallon.

10-30-11, 08:25 AM	#1
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10-30-11, 12:54 PM	#3
Starscream Decepticook Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Cybertron Posts: 989	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? Prices for basically ALL hard drives are up right now due to flooding in Asia. Most hard drive prices have doubled at the distributors I deal with. Luckily I've got a bunch of stock I bought before this insanity. __________________ Maybe tomorrow I'll wanna settle down, until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on...

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bacon12 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3,536	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? Yea it probably didn't seriously hurt supply that much, but it was a good reason to raise the price. I am not really worried, I have a bunch of platter drives. Over 5tb worth. My next HD purchase will be a handful of SSD drives in raid, hopefully it won't effect those prices as well.

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Johnny C Passing you @ 192mph Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada, EH! Posts: 779	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? Yeah, not a single platter drive onsale off NCIX, I'm sure the egg is the same. Good news is that price of SSD's is getting better every month. __________________ Phenom II 965BE @ 3.9ghz 200X19.5 1.4625 vcore 2.8ghz NB 2.4ghz HT - Asus M4A79XTD-EVO bios 0604 - 12GB Corsair DDR3 1600 @ 1600mhz CAS 9 w/1T - XFX 6970 2GB 950/1450 - Xigmatek S1283 HSF - Antec 900 - Windows 7 Ultimate x64

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john19055 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: GREENVILLE,TX Posts: 3,851	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? I started to buy another samsung 1Tb ,but I seen the price and I think I have plenty to hold me over ,I paid $119 for two Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM and now one cost $139.95 __________________ Intel i7-3820+Corsair H-100+ASROCK X79-Extreme4+16gigs G.Skill PC1600DDR3+2-ASUS DirectCU II GTX-670 in SLI+Crucial 256g-SSD+2- Samsung 1-TB+2-WesternDigtial 640g+LG-12x Blu-Ray Burner+1100w CoolerMaster+Antec-P280 case+50" Plasma PM6700+Logitech Mouse+Keyboard+Pioneer VSX-1020+Polk Audio Speakers

11-04-11, 01:57 PM	#8
nekrosoft13 I'm Geralt Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicagoland, once a year in Poland Posts: 24,364	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? that green that died on me, i got it for 70 some bucks couple months ago. once i get a refurb from WD i will sell it on ebay for 150+ __________________ Windows 8 the next big failure, right after Windows ME

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11-05-11, 10:26 AM	#11
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11-07-11, 09:18 AM	#12
FastRedPonyCar Resident Tire Destroyer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montgomery, AL Posts: 3,007	Re: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB price increasing rapidly? I ordered another 2TB samsung F4 a couple of weeks ago for $89 shipped from newegg. Today it's $230 I was planning on re-organizing all my movies on a few of the F4's inside this thing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817576001 I guess not anymore. :/ Maybe prices will go back down in a couple of months. From what I've read, there's really not even a real shortage on anything right now. I think it's the market's hysteria partly to blame. Kinda like during hurricane season when an oil rig gets hit, all of a sudden the media makes it out like there will be a terrible gasoline shortage/famine and all the retards buy into it and gas stations suddenly are charging a buck more per gallon. __________________ - Desktop - Core I7 D0 revision 920 @ 3.75 ghz - XSPC Rasa 750 RS240 H2o Cooling - EVGA GTX 680 @1325mhz - ASUS P6T Deluxe - 128 gig Crucial RealSSD C300 - 150 gig Velociraptor +2.75 Terrabytes of WD Sata 3.0 storage - 12 Gigs Mushkin DDR3 1600 - 910 watt PC P&C PSU - Saffire Pro 40 firewire audio interface w/ Adam A7 studio monitors - Corsair Obsidian 650D case - Win 7 Pro x64 - PCBank 2700 27" LED - Laptop - MSI 16F2-012 - i7 2630QM - GTX570m @ 750Mhz - 8 gigs HyperX 1866 - 120 gig OCZ Vertex 3 SSD- 750 gig Scorpio Black - BluRay - 95% Gamut Screen - IC Diamond goop