[Nfbmo] hard drive prices

[Dewey Bradley]

That does suck that labor is so much cheeper in other countries that we have 
to deel with flood in other places, but it is what it is.
Do they even still make hard drives in the U.S?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
To: <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] hard drive prices


> Bryan,
>   I bought a Seagate FreeAgent portable 500 GB harddrive from  Microcenter
> on November 8th for about $107.  I saw some 1 and 2 TB drives  that looked
> about the same price as 6 months ago but again, that was on the  8th. 
> I've
> not checked them lately.  I guess I'm lucky I bought  one before 
> everything
> escalated.
> Thanks for the info,
> Dan
>
>
> In a message dated 11/24/2011 11:29:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> b.schulz at sbcglobal.net writes:
>
> hi,
>
> i  didn't realize how bad the flood in thailand drove up hard drive prices
> until  i looked a few hours ago.
> i bought two wd 2tb ears 32k drives and a patriot  nas box for a guy and
> got him setup with a good way to backup his data and  share files about 
> this
> time last year.
> those drives were $80 from new egg  and now they are $200.
> i read a blog that said the wd plant had four feet  of water from the
> disaster and that plant may never crank out drives again and  it doesn't 
> matter
> if you prefer another brand because the other companies have  jacked up 
> their
> prices about the same amount under the same excuse even if  they didn't
> suffer plant damage.
>
> i have been using just a single drive  in an enclosure connected to a
> patriot gearbox for a few years because i found  out the hard way the 
> second usb
> port is a print server and can't connect a  second drive.
> the patriot valkryie is very easy for a blind user to  configure and 
> access
> the interface and i was wanting to upgrade to the same as  what i setup 
> for
> my friend.
> i have several spare drives but they are only  500mb or 1tb and it looks
> like i will skip buying any drives for a while and  will probably get the 
> dual
> valkryie box on cyber monday.
>
> Bryan  Schulz
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