Consumer Alert - Buy Hard Drives Now. Prices To Rise.

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mshan

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Someone on CNBC said Seagate has the ability to ramp up production quickly.
 
ImpulsE69

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First the peanuts, now HD's. The end is near.

This just in. Wind blows. Gas prices to rise.
 
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Replay

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I bought a bag of peanuts on Tuesday, but ate most of them already.

This flood news is interesting, tough for the people living there, and the hard drive heads-up is welcome.
 
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you2

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One sure way to drive up prices of any item is to trigger panic buying.
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That's not to say prices won't rise (temporarily) but panic buying is sure to cause a short term shortage....
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We see this every year (esp with commodities) when there are natural disasters (floods, early freezes, earth quakes, ...) though I have to admit this is the first time I've seen such alerts on anandtech (and 2 in 24 hours at that).
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As a recent example the quake in Japan did drive prices up of some camera equipment but after 4 or 6 months it went back to normal.
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Anyways normally when I buy to 'beat' a price jump I end up getting burned but maybe I'm just unlucky. If prices do rise 60% on disks or Peanut Butter maybe I should buy some shares of ...
 
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cubeless

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and i just filled up my bunker with peanut butter and now this... guess i need to build another bunker for these...
 
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cubeless said:
and i just filled up my bunker with peanut butter and now this... guess i need to build another bunker for these...
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mmm..peanut butter n hard drive sammich.

This does kind of suck since I'm looking at finally building another system. Maybe I'll hold off till December now.
 
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jalaram

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This news brought to you by an independent agency funded by Seagate and Western Digital.

BTW, are parody threads allowed in Hot Deals?
 
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Jiggz

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I guess anything that can be exploited to generate sales and profits is news! I'll pass.
 
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locomo

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jalaram said:
This news brought to you by an independent agency funded by Seagate and Western Digital.

BTW, are parody threads allowed in Hot Deals?
Click to expand...

At least i posted a deal along with it.:)
As for peanut butter, almond butter tastes much better is more nutritious, and never has cancer causing fungus with it. Maybe just a little cyanide.
 
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"Due to Supply Shortages, Two Per Customer" sign I just saw over the MC store today.
The shelves are pretty empty as well.
WTH?
Artificial or real shortage?
 
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wirednuts

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ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGE. i bet we make more hdd's then god and they dont all come from tideland
 
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blackened23

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You're 3 days too late, hard drive prices for many models have already double/tripled, this has been talked about to death on ocn.

A seagate barracuda XT that I was eyeing last week doubled in price.
 
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I was wondering why prices on like a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive are so much higher than they used to be. This makes sense now.

Crap, was so nice to see Samsung F3 1TB drives for only $49 at Newegg!!
 
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