HDDs selling for 2-3x the price?

Suggested by others - buy the external enclosed HDDs from the likes of Currys/PC World, those prices haven't risen yet (old stock probably, with the retailers slow to react to price hikes), so you could buy one of these and rip out the HDD - do some research first, they might not have the correct internal connectors; keep the casing, as warranty might be invalidated if you try to claim and send off without the housing.
 
JCoquillon said:
The floods in Thailand have hit the Western Digitial plant in particular. From what I gather they are estimating a drop by as much in 30% in global HDD manufacture for Q4 2011.
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About a month ago I bought a 1TB portable hard drive for £50, a couple of days ago I bought another one for £80, it was the cheapest I could find.

We are so used to the prices consistently going down, it was a bit of a shock, though probably not surprising when you consider all the terrible problems with the floods.
 
Just watch Nikon price rise soon too.
Nikon's flood-hit DSLR factory in Thailand will be closed until January but full production is not expected to resume until the end of March 2012, the firm said in a statement today.

The catastrophe is expected to cost the company nearly £200 million in lost profit.

Nikon expects production to 'partially resume' in January and the disaster to cost it 65 billion yen (around £520m) in lost net sales.

Nikon is understood to manufacture around 90% of all its DSLRs and 60% of its interchangeable lenses in Thailand.
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Cost of rare earth metals was also beginning to affect HDD prices, but on scale negligible to that caused by the flooding
 
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