Hard drive prices gone up?

[Crazyduckling]

Whats up with the increase in harddrive prices? In my PC build thread from October, the harddrive we looked at was only $60. Now its 150?

Anyone have any insight?


unrelated:
i never built that pc. life happened. hopefully next month.

[Goku]

Thailand had major floods months ago ruining production facilities that made hard drive parts. No other place made them so hence the higher prices. They are actually starting to go down again from what I can tell.

[Vancha]

I also seem to remember hearing the odd HDD manufacturer was "prolonging the effects of the flood". *cough*allofthem*cough*

[Crazyduckling]

I just read that prices might be up until 2013...ugh.

Anyone know if SSDs are affected?

[Goku]

SSDs are not, so their prices will only continue to decline.

[inigma]

It actually made more sense for me to get an SSD now than to get a new HDD. I am liking my decision. :)

[Oryon22]

Quick question: is it commonplace to use an SSD as your only storage device or is it recommended to buy one with a HDD?

[inigma]

It is common practice to use SSD for your OS and most common applications. HDD for storage.

I managed to cobble two old 80GB SATA II HDDs into a single 160GB array which I use for storage and non common applications (and windows User files and temp folders).