Spinpoint F3 - €69.00

DermotOH

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=28152&agid=
http://www.itp.net/586854-thailand-floods-to-cause-50m-hdd-shortfall

Any idea of when we will see a reduced price again?

Tea_Bag

should have stuck this in bargain alerts!

trolololol

one of the articles i read, quoted Seagate CEO or some high up as saying that it will take 6 months to have production and manufacturing back to old levels.
if prices are affected for that long though i imagine SSD's will see massive increases in sales. happy days :P

PseudoFamous

DermotOH wrote: »

Any idea of when we will see a reduced price again?

It was 99€ earlier, so the trend is good!

DermotOH

Tea_Bag wrote: »

should have stuck this in bargain alerts!

trolololol

one of the articles i read, quoted Seagate CEO or some high up as saying that it will take 6 months to have production and manufacturing back to old levels.
if prices are affected for that long though i imagine SSD's will see massive increases in sales. happy days :P

There would be a 'significant impact," Seagate said, and it expected this to last over multiple quarters.

More like a year

deejer

What would be the best HDD to use for backup. See a few 2tb drives for around the Eur70-80 mark.

Blowfish

DermotOH wrote: »

http://www4.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=28152&agid=
http://www.itp.net/586854-thailand-floods-to-cause-50m-hdd-shortfall

Any idea of when we will see a reduced price again?

What's even better is that the 1.5tb is now cheaper than it.

PseudoFamous

Serious question: If I were to crack open a WD 1TB Elements External HDD (Looks to be 3.5"), what sort of harddrive would I find, and can it be connected directly via SATA? Or would I just irreparably damage it?

Edit: She's a WD 1TB Green, with SATA connectors. Happy days, money in pocket.

Voodu Child

Ordered a WD 2TB for £69 there on Amazon, seems mad because I paid £55 for a similar drive from them a few months ago.

I don't really need it now but i'll want one around Xmas and didn't want to take the chance of prices being even higher then. It won't ship for 3-5 weeks anyhow (probably even longer) but at least i've frozen the price by getting the order in.

Blowfish

Up to €85 now. I got mine almost 4 years ago for about €110, wont be long until it overtakes that at this rate.

Bad time for me to be running out of space...

Tea_Bag

Amazon can and will cancel if they want to. there is no set price you pay.

I once ordered 2x 120gb SDDs for €40. if only that snuck under the radar.

The Toff

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Amazon can and will cancel if they want to. there is no set price you pay.

I once ordered 2x 120gb SDDs for €40. if only that snuck under the radar.

Jesus christ. That would have been bargain of the year.

Tea_Bag

yea I got overly excited too cause it was processing my order for 2 days or something. I was actually starting to believe it was shipping

the screen cap is somewhere in this forum actually.

Serephucus

Blowfish wrote: »

Up to €85 now. I got mine almost 4 years ago for about €110, wont be long until it overtakes that at this rate.

Bad time for me to be running out of space...

You and me both. I got my 2TB drives for €108 each from Dabs I believe, so I suppose I could still order two more, given that they're still cheaper than what I paid, but...

mcgovern

Been holding out for 2TB HDD prices to come down, guess that was a mistake

Voodu Child

Tea_Bag wrote: »

Amazon can and will cancel if they want to. there is no set price you pay.

I once ordered 2x 120gb SDDs for €40. if only that snuck under the radar.

They cancel when there is a misprice.

They don't cancel if you order something and it has gone up a few quid by the time it is in stock. If the original price was correct (not a mistake) then that's what they charge you.

deejer

mcgovern wrote: »

Been holding out for 2TB HDD prices to come down, guess that was a mistake

Same here. Eur75 looks good now! Picked up an 1tb F3 on adverts yesterday for Eur30 so that will do me for a while

deconduo

I convinced my girlfriend to get an F3 1TB and an F4 2TB a couple of weeks ago instead of buying externals. When I told her what the prices were now she was like :eek:

Blowfish

Blowfish wrote: »

Up to €85 now. I got mine almost 4 years ago for about €110, wont be long until it overtakes that at this rate.

Bad time for me to be running out of space...

Unbelievable, I didn't think the above would be true quite this fast, it's up to €119 now.

Genghiz Cohen

€99 now...

Blowfish

Actually, it seems there's 2 versions with the same model number, €99 and €119.

[edit] My mistake, one is the Enterprise version.