Recent HDD price increase?

[Wardrop]

It seems only a month or two ago, most 6TB consumer and NAS hard-drives were under $200. Now I look and with the odd exception, most are hanging around $220 to $250. Even locally here in Australia, our dollar is the strongest it's been in like a year, yet the hard-drives are more expensive than they were a few months ago, but about ~20%.

Anyone know what the go is? Is it just a matter of supply and demand?

 

[Hellhammer]

At least Amazon's price history doesn't show any dramatic changes. Of course, there have been sales in the past few months with lower pricing, but the long-term price trend is still in a decline. Perhaps you just looked at HDDs during sales.

 

[nanaki333]

At least Amazon's price history doesn't show any dramatic changes. Of course, there have been sales in the past few months with lower pricing, but the long-term price trend is still in a decline. Perhaps you just looked at HDDs during sales.

yeah, i think you're right. the sale prices kind of make you think those are the new norm. when i go looking for new SSDs, i always think "oh, ~$220 for 960GB+" but then it's quite a bit more online. then i see a sale later.

 

[Wardrop]

Perhaps it's a combination of recent price stagnation, with not as many good deals around. I typically look at the prices of Toshiba and HGST drives, and they do seem to have trended slightly up over the past few months.

It's crazy, even 2TB don't seem to have returned to the prices they were pre-flood.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Perhaps it's a combination of recent price stagnation, with not as many good deals around. I typically look at the prices of Toshiba and HGST drives, and they do seem to have trended slightly up over the past few months.

It's crazy, even 2TB don't seem to have returned to the prices they were pre-flood.

They're at about the same level. But they're also much better drives. (Higher platter densities, fewer platters, faster throughput.)

We've also seen the GB/$ sweet spot go from 1-2TB drives to 4TB drives now. So storage has gotten cheaper.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Perhaps it's a combination of recent price stagnation, with not as many good deals around. I typically look at the prices of Toshiba and HGST drives, and they do seem to have trended slightly up over the past few months.

It's crazy, even 2TB don't seem to have returned to the prices they were pre-flood.

I've seen Toshiba "bare drive" 3TB desktop HDDs at Newegg for $75 USD, and 2TB Seagate for $60.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I've seen Toshiba "bare drive" 3TB desktop HDDs at Newegg for $75 USD, and 2TB Seagate for $60.

2TB drives were available for <$80 pre-flood. Seagate doesn't count anymore. Finding plenty of other 2TB drives in the ~$70 range, and personally don't consider ~$10 all that big a difference, personally.