Any idea when hard drive prices will drop again?

Posted by: Bart on 15 December 2011

I really need a NAS but have been put off by the current high costs. I'm looking at a Synology 2-bay unit, a DS 212j, with two 2 tb WD enterprise drives, but that is looking like close to $900 right now.

I've got a kludgy network backup solution in place for my uServe (using my Macbook and an external usb drive) so this is really for music files. Thus, I'm not in a HUGE hurry.

Posted on: 15 December 2011 by rich46

they are holding back supplies to make a killing

Posted on: 15 December 2011 by garyi

2013 apparently.

Posted on: 15 December 2011 by sktn77a

I've been looking at Seagate Constellation enterprise drives (similar to those in the HDX) which were about $100 for 1TB here in the US last year. They're over $200 now (if you can find them). Be patient.

Posted on: 15 December 2011 by Geoff P

Originally Posted by rich46:

they are holding back supplies to make a killing

Actually the flooding in Thailand crucified HDD production. Virtually all the drive manufacturers have fabs situated there and lost their backend read/write head process capability. Fabs were flooded to a depth of 2 - 3 feet.which ruined a lot of specialised equipment. Expect it to take a year for them to get close to normal capacity.

Posted on: 16 December 2011 by BigH47

A shame these manufacturers didn't have a backup plan?

Posted on: 16 December 2011 by andrew mcmullins

I work in the industry and am being told anywhere between the end of Q1 2012 and end of H1 2012 - that is into large industrial partners so I would expect it to take a bit longer into consumers.