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Natural Disasters In Asia

WildCat

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With my Core 2 Duo E8500 machine getting a bit long in the tooth for newer games (CoD MW3 min spec is E6600) and getting me killed by people who aren't even on my screen yet, I began to lust for an i7 machine, which requires a whole new build.

All fine, until I checked out the prices of hard drives lately... I figured $75 or so for a 1TB Caviar Black drive, only to discover they now cost ~$200!

Apparently floods in Thailand last October shut down Western Digital and Seagate drive factories, causing prices to skyrocket. :mad:

Very reminiscent of 3 years ago when I upgraded my memory, earthquakes in in Taiwan meant I spent well over $200 for 8GB of memory.

Isn't there some place in Asia to build a factory that doesn't get shut down by floods or earthquakes? Or gigantic mutant fire-spitting lizards?

I may just bite the bullet and build it anyway, I can salvage the 2 1TB drives in my current machine and add one more for a RAID 5. But shouldn't prices go down soon?

Anyone else notice how ridiculously expensive hard drives are now?
 
Yep. The prices are way up there for even for refurbished ones. It'll be at least 6 months before the prices drop back to where they used to be (provided that they don't have another natural disaster of course).
 
Save yourself a $100 and go with an i5 2500K instead of an i7. Then you can spend that $100 on half of a HD. :D
 
BTW, this is a perfectly good time to buy heaps of DDR3. It looks like prices are on their lowest.
 
El Greco said:
BTW, this is a perfectly good time to buy heaps of DDR3. It looks like prices are on their lowest.
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I got 16 gB on this thing now, 8 processors, and 4tB of storage. I think I'm set.
Anybody remember the joy of when memory came down to <$100(US)/mB? and 40mB was a HUGE disk?
 
Normal Dude said:
Save yourself a $100 and go with an i5 2500K instead of an i7. Then you can spend that $100 on half of a HD. :D
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I was thinking about that, the i7 is only marginally better for gaming, probably not $100 better!
 
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