I've been looking for a NAS drive and stumbled across this offer, 3TB Western Digital Red, £99.06 on Western Digital website. However when combined with the coupon code 'WDSTORECPN' (spend £100 and get £10 off) - means the drive is £89.06.
they've been this price for a couple of years, nothing to do with brexit.
benjai
20 May 174#22
Regardless of inflation, compared to 4 years ago, most computer parts are either substantially better for the same money, or much cheaper for the same spec. Hard drives are the main exception and that's a con (price fixing).
mogsog to robodan918
20 May 174#18
There are a lot of contributing factors but the main reason is the 3 giants gobbled up all the competition, below is a list of all the HDD manufacturers in the world today.
Seagate Technology, including its subsidiary brands Maxtor and Samsung
Toshiba
Western Digital, including its subsidiary brand HGST
Things started looking like a pseudo monopoly when hitachi was acquired by WD in 2012. Meanwhile flash memory has about 11 global manufacturers who own fabs and make the memory actual chips. Enterprise flash storage is still an emerging business with lots competition while companies grab for slices of the market and this is why you see such huge drops in the cost of flash memory. Meanwhile spinning rust has it's days numbered so I imagine they want to squeeze what revenue is left out the market before they have to shut the mechanical HDD arm of their company down.
friar_chris
21 May 173#34
Tomato Tomato. Color or Colour. "Wether" or Whether. Lag time, time lag, lead time You really didn't like my graph did you?
Begin rant - where you attempt to exert some God-like foresight to quieten down the plebs. You should use that to prevent future collapses in the global markets. Instead you show us a graph of the value of the Euro.......? Nothing to do with Brexit........? I would have thought you'd show me a graph of HDD prices in GBP NOT increasing since Brexit?!
Keep to point. Pound fell 20%, immediately this product started climbing 15%, we've had inflation of 3%, hard disk prices generally fall over time too. Yeah that's one hell of a coincidence.
I won't be buying any of your hedges. As a tax payer I probably own one of them already.
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margamboy
20 May 17#1
Been picking these up from CCL for just shy of £94 so this works out a bit cheaper and I get a case,
robodan918
20 May 173#2
Why'd hard drives get so expensive? I picked up two of these for my raid1 nas back in 2013 for just shy of 100 each.
Rich_T to robodan918
20 May 172#3
Flooding?
Thermobaric to robodan918
20 May 171#4
Combination of less demand due to SSD usage and HDD manufacturers price fixing.
russthedude to robodan918
20 May 17#14
if you paid £100 in 2013, then £109 is pretty much spot on for today. Retail inflation since 2013 is around 7.7%, so £109 is only £1.30 more than you'd expect to pay based on just inflation.
I bought a 3TB in 2014, and it was £83. i think i got lucky when there was a dip in price for a few months, because they soon went up to today's sort of prices.
mogsog to robodan918
20 May 174#18
There are a lot of contributing factors but the main reason is the 3 giants gobbled up all the competition, below is a list of all the HDD manufacturers in the world today.
Seagate Technology, including its subsidiary brands Maxtor and Samsung
Toshiba
Western Digital, including its subsidiary brand HGST
Things started looking like a pseudo monopoly when hitachi was acquired by WD in 2012. Meanwhile flash memory has about 11 global manufacturers who own fabs and make the memory actual chips. Enterprise flash storage is still an emerging business with lots competition while companies grab for slices of the market and this is why you see such huge drops in the cost of flash memory. Meanwhile spinning rust has it's days numbered so I imagine they want to squeeze what revenue is left out the market before they have to shut the mechanical HDD arm of their company down.
bobforward79 to robodan918
22 May 17#38
there is a lot less competition there has been a lot of mergers and buying of company divisions
From Wikipedia;
Seagate Technology bought storage divisions of Maxtor and Samsung
Western Digital bought HGST which was a merger IBM and Hitachi storage divisions .
I'm looking for 8tb-10tb
Might be worth it at 250/drive they currently for (8tb)
mccririck
20 May 17#8
Ok so thias isnt a NAS drive and even if it was you would need something to put it in. What's the best value up and running NAS drive just now?
speculatrix to mccririck
20 May 17#21
alan2simms
20 May 171#9
I can vote hot for the price absolutely .but WD UK store run by digital river is horrible , their customer support is the worst ever , . they give scripted answers and will keep repeating the same thing over and over again without actually giving you the answer to your question. one wonders if they actually understand english.
no problems if they ship the items as they say they do but if not go straight to pay pal,yes make sure you use pay pal.
otherwise you'll have a whole lot of grief if the order goes wrong.
formesyn
20 May 173#10
The exchange rate bombed after the Brexit vote making all imports (eg most computer kit is priced in US Dollars ) more expensive.
alexc648
20 May 172#11
For those who don't know NAS is network access storage usually used for storing media for access on tvs or for saving CCTV footage. They are designed to be on all the time so have a good endurance
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The cheapest item I've been able to find to push the total over £100 is this:- https://www.wdc.com/en-gb/products/accessories/my-passport-neoprene-case-black.html
Which means the HDD is effectively £93.05 including delivery. Cheapest I've been able to find it for the past few weeks.
Coupon code link from this site:- http://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/10-off-100-spend-using-voucher-code-western-digital-uk-store-1373502
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Seagate Technology, including its subsidiary brands Maxtor and Samsung
Toshiba
Western Digital, including its subsidiary brand HGST
Things started looking like a pseudo monopoly when hitachi was acquired by WD in 2012. Meanwhile flash memory has about 11 global manufacturers who own fabs and make the memory actual chips. Enterprise flash storage is still an emerging business with lots competition while companies grab for slices of the market and this is why you see such huge drops in the cost of flash memory. Meanwhile spinning rust has it's days numbered so I imagine they want to squeeze what revenue is left out the market before they have to shut the mechanical HDD arm of their company down.
Begin rant - where you attempt to exert some God-like foresight to quieten down the plebs. You should use that to prevent future collapses in the global markets. Instead you show us a graph of the value of the Euro.......? Nothing to do with Brexit........? I would have thought you'd show me a graph of HDD prices in GBP NOT increasing since Brexit?!
Keep to point. Pound fell 20%, immediately this product started climbing 15%, we've had inflation of 3%, hard disk prices generally fall over time too. Yeah that's one hell of a coincidence.
I won't be buying any of your hedges. As a tax payer I probably own one of them already.
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I bought a 3TB in 2014, and it was £83. i think i got lucky when there was a dip in price for a few months, because they soon went up to today's sort of prices.
Seagate Technology, including its subsidiary brands Maxtor and Samsung
Toshiba
Western Digital, including its subsidiary brand HGST
Things started looking like a pseudo monopoly when hitachi was acquired by WD in 2012. Meanwhile flash memory has about 11 global manufacturers who own fabs and make the memory actual chips. Enterprise flash storage is still an emerging business with lots competition while companies grab for slices of the market and this is why you see such huge drops in the cost of flash memory. Meanwhile spinning rust has it's days numbered so I imagine they want to squeeze what revenue is left out the market before they have to shut the mechanical HDD arm of their company down.
From Wikipedia;
Seagate Technology bought storage divisions of Maxtor and Samsung
Western Digital bought HGST which was a merger IBM and Hitachi storage divisions .
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Drive_Manufacturer_Consolidation.svg/800px-Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Drive_Manufacturer_Consolidation.svg.png
I'm looking for 8tb-10tb
Might be worth it at 250/drive they currently for (8tb)
no problems if they ship the items as they say they do but if not go straight to pay pal,yes make sure you use pay pal.
otherwise you'll have a whole lot of grief if the order goes wrong.