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hard drive prices DOUBLE
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Wolfenrook
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Nice find tek-monkey.
Incidentally, once my daughter has her new pc I might have some bits needing new homes. I have no plans to re-use any of them as they are a little obsolete now, except maybe the OCZ platinum DDR2 sticks in there. I prefer Ballistix these days though, much more bang for buck.
On a different note, my best wishes go out to those directly effected by these floods. Higher prices on hard drives etc are an annoyance for us, some of these folks though may have lost their homes, ability to earn a wage etc.
Ade
Incidentally, once my daughter has her new pc I might have some bits needing new homes. I have no plans to re-use any of them as they are a little obsolete now, except maybe the OCZ platinum DDR2 sticks in there. I prefer Ballistix these days though, much more bang for buck.
On a different note, my best wishes go out to those directly effected by these floods. Higher prices on hard drives etc are an annoyance for us, some of these folks though may have lost their homes, ability to earn a wage etc.
Ade
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
A loss of earnings potentially for me, as many of my customers won't be able to afford hard drive replacements now, or at least they won't think it's viable.Wolfenrook said:
Having said that though, of course I couldn't agree more about the poor souls who have lost their homes etc. Totally devastating!
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Lets just hope that things don't take too long to return to normal.
I've heard that one of the manufacturers has now relocated to dry land, but no doubt it could still be several months of high prices.
I've heard that one of the manufacturers has now relocated to dry land, but no doubt it could still be several months of high prices.
Vault_girl
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Hitachi are the cheapest around at the moment :-S not great.
We ordered some hard disks from PC world as soon as we realised but I think everyone else did the same and they're having issues delivering them now (probably because they're out of stock) - they told us to cancel the order and reorder from the website - where the prices are now shooting up. hell no!
If you are planning on getting hard disks/know you will have to get some soon, buy now because prices are just continuing to go up. a 2Tb disk we bought for £50 on 18th Oct is now £165! it was around £110 this time last week.
Externals do seem to be cheaper still so we have had a look into going down the route of buying them and breaking into them. And PC world does seem to be behind everyone else for updating their prices. Those are the only real tips at the moment.
We ordered some hard disks from PC world as soon as we realised but I think everyone else did the same and they're having issues delivering them now (probably because they're out of stock) - they told us to cancel the order and reorder from the website - where the prices are now shooting up. hell no!
If you are planning on getting hard disks/know you will have to get some soon, buy now because prices are just continuing to go up. a 2Tb disk we bought for £50 on 18th Oct is now £165! it was around £110 this time last week.
Externals do seem to be cheaper still so we have had a look into going down the route of buying them and breaking into them. And PC world does seem to be behind everyone else for updating their prices. Those are the only real tips at the moment.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Not just hard-drives - Honda's Swindon plant is down to three days as result..
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Although argos and such places haven't hiked up external prices, everything is running out of stock because everyone is having the same idea.Vault_girl said:
I've just reserved the last 1tb external they had at either of the stafford stores for the £60 mark, but then the next ones up from that become much more expensive. There was a 1tb with free 4gb usb pen drive for £59.99, but only one left and that's at Rugely which doesn't make it worth the journey.
Wolfenrook
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SSDs are awesome, but just not big enough as data drives. I have a 120 gig SSD (Patriot Inferno, and yes, it's a scorcher of a drive. 
) as my system drive, and it rocks! Nowhere near enough room though for all my data (games mainly. lol), hence I have a 2TB striped raid array for my data and progs.
Oh and Hitachi drives aren't too bad these days, had a few deathstars myself and they have proven quite reliable. I usually go for WDs though. The worst I have found to be Seagates and Maxtor (Seagate have always been unreliable for me, Maxtor have always been noisy for me. lol).
If push comes to shove, I will move my MBR of my spare terrabyte WD, and use that in my daughters new pc. My wife I can reuse her current 1TB WD (her mobo is going south, seems to be experiencing CMOS corruption).
Ade
) as my system drive, and it rocks! Nowhere near enough room though for all my data (games mainly. lol), hence I have a 2TB striped raid array for my data and progs.Oh and Hitachi drives aren't too bad these days, had a few deathstars myself and they have proven quite reliable. I usually go for WDs though. The worst I have found to be Seagates and Maxtor (Seagate have always been unreliable for me, Maxtor have always been noisy for me. lol).
If push comes to shove, I will move my MBR of my spare terrabyte WD, and use that in my daughters new pc. My wife I can reuse her current 1TB WD (her mobo is going south, seems to be experiencing CMOS corruption).
Ade
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
How can we guarentee to keep data for periods of time greater than a decade or three?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Burn to DVD, twice. Put them in a sealed box, preferably keep a copy in 2 locations, and never use the disc again once you've ensured it works.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Not many 8 track players around today,do we seal the DvD drive too?tek-monkey said:
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Yup, 2 of them!
TBH there is no promise that MS word will exist in the future, or PDFs, or even x86 architecture PCs, so you may want to choose carefully when archiving electronic data for a long time.
TBH there is no promise that MS word will exist in the future, or PDFs, or even x86 architecture PCs, so you may want to choose carefully when archiving electronic data for a long time.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Only two per person at pc whirl
Wolfenrook
Well-Known Forumite
Slightly off topic but....
When at Uni I owned and used a Smith & Corona PWP word processor thingy that wrote to 3.5" disks. It also came with a dos app on 3.5" disk to convert the files to doc format on a pc...
A few years later, I bought my first PC. Now, I had a disk full of my poems, so I popped the conversion disk into the drive (was using Windows ME at this point, so still had dos on it. lol) with the intent of installing the converter so I could get all of my poems onto my computer.
There was a small problem, that been that at some point somebody changed the format of 3.5 inch disks completely, my PC didn't even recognise it as a disk. lol
The moral of the story, you CAN'T back something up and EXPECT to still be able to use the backup in years to come, no matter how securely you keep the backup. Heck, my current PC doesn't even have a 3.5" disk drive, I stopped putting one in years ago now.
Give it a few years and I reckon CDs will vanish as well. Already CD audio sales have dropped massively, whilst MP3 downloads are ever increasing. I'm all for it, as most times I purchase an MP3 I can redownload it if I lose it, where with CD if the disk gets damage you've got to buy it again. Plus I can fit 1000s of MP3s on a device the size of a cigarrete packet but thinner (or even on a device the size of a postage stamp!), rather than having cupboards full of CDs...
Merging this back into topic slowly, this is why we need such big hard drives now, and why so many of us feel it when prices get hiked (word is, this is going to impact other hardware as well soon, so watch those already volatile ram prices....). Put it this way, my 2 TB array, well I thought it was huge, I've half filled it already. lol
I still keep hoping that one day soon we will be able to buy a 1TB TRUE SSD though for a reasonable price, the performance on them is stunning! I don't really see the point in hybrid drives (they have an ssd 'buffer' but stil use magnetic hard disks for storage). My 120 gig SSD cost more than my CPU though as it is... lol The biggest true SSD I can find though is 960GB, and only costs £2649.98.... lmao What insane person is going to pay that kind of money just for data storage?!?!?!?!?
Ade
When at Uni I owned and used a Smith & Corona PWP word processor thingy that wrote to 3.5" disks. It also came with a dos app on 3.5" disk to convert the files to doc format on a pc...
A few years later, I bought my first PC. Now, I had a disk full of my poems, so I popped the conversion disk into the drive (was using Windows ME at this point, so still had dos on it. lol) with the intent of installing the converter so I could get all of my poems onto my computer.
There was a small problem, that been that at some point somebody changed the format of 3.5 inch disks completely, my PC didn't even recognise it as a disk. lol
The moral of the story, you CAN'T back something up and EXPECT to still be able to use the backup in years to come, no matter how securely you keep the backup.
Heck, my current PC doesn't even have a 3.5" disk drive, I stopped putting one in years ago now.Give it a few years and I reckon CDs will vanish as well. Already CD audio sales have dropped massively, whilst MP3 downloads are ever increasing. I'm all for it, as most times I purchase an MP3 I can redownload it if I lose it, where with CD if the disk gets damage you've got to buy it again. Plus I can fit 1000s of MP3s on a device the size of a cigarrete packet but thinner (or even on a device the size of a postage stamp!), rather than having cupboards full of CDs...
Merging this back into topic slowly, this is why we need such big hard drives now, and why so many of us feel it when prices get hiked (word is, this is going to impact other hardware as well soon, so watch those already volatile ram prices....). Put it this way, my 2 TB array, well I thought it was huge, I've half filled it already. lol
I still keep hoping that one day soon we will be able to buy a 1TB TRUE SSD though for a reasonable price, the performance on them is stunning! I don't really see the point in hybrid drives (they have an ssd 'buffer' but stil use magnetic hard disks for storage). My 120 gig SSD cost more than my CPU though as it is... lol The biggest true SSD I can find though is 960GB, and only costs £2649.98.... lmao What insane person is going to pay that kind of money just for data storage?!?!?!?!?
Ade
Vault_girl
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Just saw some 1Tb hard disks for around £50 each on ebuyer. We ordered 4 and the price stayed at around £200 right up until it asked for the verified by visa code at the end of the transaction where it showed the price to pay as being £700 odd. from when we looked at them to when we ordered they had already sold 13. I wonder if there are going to be some shocked people who think they've bagged a bargain and then haven't because they didn't get the verified by visa pop-up or didn't notice the price change...
We asked our account manager about it and he said their system went down the other day and since then it has been glitching. I would think they will be able to get refunds somehow but it's going to be hard to prove unless they have screen shots of the price they thought it was. Sounds like it was displaying one price on the website whilst charging a different one. eeeep
We asked our account manager about it and he said their system went down the other day and since then it has been glitching. I would think they will be able to get refunds somehow but it's going to be hard to prove unless they have screen shots of the price they thought it was. Sounds like it was displaying one price on the website whilst charging a different one. eeeep
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
www.1poundbackup.co.uk - that'sthe whole point in data backup being important because no HDD lasts indefinitely.John Marwood said:
Also, by using online backup, they keep your files stored in multiple locations so that you don't have to.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Sure and thanks for this butwmrcomputers said:www.1poundbackup.co.uk - that'sthe whole point in data backup being important because no HDD lasts indefinitely.John Marwood said:
Also, by using online backup, they keep your files stored in multiple locations so that you don't have to.
How do we know this business wont go to the wall, havent there been similar things come and go before?
Not being negative just cant get my head around data retrieval in say 20 years time - The William Salt Library it is not
Or is it?
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