Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...e-st95005620as

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...-in-st750lx003

On Dec 16, 8:01*pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...

They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.


NT

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On Dec 16, 8:01*pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

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On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

I know, the 500 Gig one was about £95 a few weeks ago, its now about £180.

The 750 Gig one is £135, which is about what you would have expected had the
500 Gig one not shot up.

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:41:38 -0000, "dennis@home"
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NT writes:
On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

I know, the 500 Gig one was about £95 a few weeks ago, its now about £180.

The 750 Gig one is £135, which is about what you would have expected had the
500 Gig one not shot up.

3TB, 7200 rpm Seagate externals were under 100 quid at the start of
November if you knew where to buy them from - not the usual 'trade'
suppliers who had anticipated shortages and had already started hiking
prices and restricting supply. Stripped of their case they are
'identical' to what now costs around 240 quid.

There are reports of a team of employees buying well over 1000 drives
in a few short hours at one chain of retail outlets across the
country. A day or so later the retail chain caught up with the
crisis and prices jumped 60%, which was a moot point as supplies were
now near zero.

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:41:38 -0000, "dennis@home"
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NT writes:
On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

I know, the 500 Gig one was about £95 a few weeks ago, its now about £180.

The 750 Gig one is £135, which is about what you would have expected had
the
500 Gig one not shot up.

3TB, 7200 rpm Seagate externals were under 100 quid at the start of
November if you knew where to buy them from - not the usual 'trade'
suppliers who had anticipated shortages and had already started hiking
prices and restricting supply. Stripped of their case they are
'identical' to what now costs around 240 quid.

I suspect that is what happened to the £30 lidl external drives.

Anyway i decided to buy myself a pressie and now have a 750 Gig hybrid in a
box next to me.
All I need now is to remember where I put my esata case so I can image the
drive in my laptop.

Ebuyer shipped it next day Sat delivery for free.

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:40:18 +0000, The Other Mike
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There are reports of a team of employees buying well over 1000 drives
in a few short hours at one chain of retail outlets across the
country. A day or so later the retail chain caught up with the
crisis and prices jumped 60%, which was a moot point as supplies were
now near zero.

****s should be fired for that.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

s/Taiwan/Thailand/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...tage-pc-prices

JGH

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On Dec 16, 8:01*pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

Bangkok, even


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In article ,
NT writes:
On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, "dennis@home" wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...
They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Also, there's a massive world shortage, due to the floods in Taiwan.

Bangkok, even

Don't walk through turnstile sideways then.

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On Dec 16, 8:04*pm, NT wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:01*pm, "dennis@home" wrote:

Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...

They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.


I've bought PC components from ebuyer and never had any problems.

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On 16/12/2011 20:04, NT wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...

They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Actually I have found ebuyer to be pretty good... Been using them since
2004 and must have ordered many many tens of £K through them by now, and
have very rarely had any problems.


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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:27:46 -0000, John Rumm wrote:

On 16/12/2011 20:04, NT wrote:
On Dec 16, 8:01 pm, wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...2-5-hybrid-ssd...

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...in-7200rpm-hyb...

They're combined hdd and ssd, nice idea. Plus its ebuyer, not a
company I'd choose to deal with.

Actually I have found ebuyer to be pretty good... Been using them since
2004 and must have ordered many many tens of £K through them by now, and
have very rarely had any problems.

Ditto. Excellent customer service too (I've had the odd postal breakage) - not a single item has been faulty though.

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On 16/12/2011 20:01, dennis@home wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...e-st95005620as

That has 8GB of SSD

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...-in-st750lx003

And that has 4GB - its the SSD size driving the price in this case.


note prices of 2.5" mechanisms ought not be as badly affected by WD's
problems, since that impacted their 3.5" drive production capacity.

(although the Toshiba factory that makes 80% of the worlds head sliders
is also underwater!)




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On 16/12/2011 20:01, dennis@home wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...e-st95005620as

That has 8GB of SAD

But it's the cheaper one that has 8 gig, that one only has 4 Gig.


http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...-in-st750lx003

And that has 4GB - its the SSD size driving the price in this case.

That's the 8 Gig one.

note prices of 2.5" mechanisms ought not be as badly affected by WD's
problems, since that impacted their 3.5" drive production capacity.

(although the Toshiba factory that makes 80% of the worlds head sliders is
also underwater!)

Maybe SSDs will be cheaper as there is likely to be a jump in the number
being made and sold now they are closer to the price of spinning disks?

On 16/12/2011 22:20, dennis@home wrote:


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On 16/12/2011 20:01, dennis@home wrote:
Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...e-st95005620as


That has 8GB of SAD

But it's the cheaper one that has 8 gig, that one only has 4 Gig.


http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...-in-st750lx003


And that has 4GB - its the SSD size driving the price in this case.

That's the 8 Gig one.

Yup, sorry my mistake... in which case - yup odd pricing.

Still there is lots of daft pricing about. I can buy external 1TB drives
for £20 - £30 less than internals at the mo.

note prices of 2.5" mechanisms ought not be as badly affected by WD's
problems, since that impacted their 3.5" drive production capacity.

(although the Toshiba factory that makes 80% of the worlds head
sliders is also underwater!)

Maybe SSDs will be cheaper as there is likely to be a jump in the number
being made and sold now they are closer to the price of spinning disks?

Well they have gradually been coming down and the capacity going up for
a while. However they never seem to close the gap on spinning disks in
terms of £/gig.

They are however at a price that makes them quite handy now. A 64GB
drive is a very effective performance upgrade for many machines, its
large enough to carry the OS and all the apps in most cases, even if you
keep the data on traditional disks.

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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:20:04 -0000, "dennis@home"
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Maybe SSDs will be cheaper as there is likely to be a jump in the number
being made and sold now they are closer to the price of spinning disks?

Or they may go up in price, due to increased demand.
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Any idea why the pricing of these drives is so odd?

http://www.ebuyer.com/222310-seagate...e-st95005620as

http://www.ebuyer.com/321969-momentu...-in-st750lx003