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Tool tracks hard disk price increases

Wondering how high hard disk drive prices are rising because of the flooding in Thailand? Computer retailer Newegg offers a quick way to track HDD pricing.

For example, a search on a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM, model ST31000524AS drive shows that the price jumped to $149.99 from $49.99 a couple of weeks ago.

(And that same drive is $179.99 at major reseller CDW. And see Nextag price history of drive here.)

Or check out a Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM, model RE4 WD1003FBYX. That drive jumped in the same time frame to $249.99 from $107.… Read more

Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog

November 20, 2011 5:56 PM PST By Brooke Crothers

Topics:

Desktops,

Laptops,

Dell,

Storage,

Server,

Hewlett-Packard

Tags:

HDD,

shortage,

price increase,

Newegg,

Camelegg,

hard disk drive,

Western Digital,

Seagate,

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