I was going to say hurricane, but you’re right, it was flooding in 2011.
solrize@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I haven’t been following trends but I just looked on newegg, and HDD and SSD prices look about where they were before, or maybe a bit higher. It’s nothing like the Chia craze where every drive of any kind was snapped up by crypto miners. Or the simliar thing further back where a flood in Thailand(?) clobbered a factory so there were big shortages and price spikes. Right now you can get drives if you’re willing to pay for them. There just hasn’t been the usual downward price trend.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, hurricanes aren’t really a thing in that region, they have monsoons instead.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I’ve been buying refurbished drives from ServerPartDeals and looking at my invoice from March versus now the price of the same drive has gone up 10% from $180 to $198 (Ultrastar HC530 14TB)
phx@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Keep in mind Black Friday is also coming, and a lot of vendors like to raise their prices a bit before so they can claim a sale on the day
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yep. I thought $100 for 8TB was expensive when I checked earlier this year and now the cheapest one is $140. Fuck 😂
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
$100 is actually a great deal. I had a bunch of shucked 8TB WD EasyStore in my media server previously, bought between 2018-2023, and I think the best deal I ever saw during that time was around that price. Around $12/TB was always my benchmark for a great deal on some drives.