Prices are going up all over the world, not just the United States, and they're going up for hard drives of all sizes, not just the big ones. 3 at Pricewatch: WD Digital Caviar Green 3Gbps from, listed at $109.95 "updated 1 hour ago." Click through and GoHardDrive wants $209.99 for exactly the same drive, up 91 percent. That ad was "updated 2 days ago." But if you click through to PC Connection Express, the same drive is listed for $149.95. ![]() 2 choice at Pricewatch: a Western Digital Caviar Green 6Gbps, for $104.95 from PC Connection Express. ![]() Today you have to either walk into a store and pay a 50 percent premium over the advertised price, or order online and pay an extra 80 percent. Bottom line: "1 day ago" the drive was offered at $92.39. There I found the same drive at "in stores only" for $139.99, or online for $165. According to Pricewatch, the ad was "updated 1 day ago." Clicking through to the MCM Electronics site, I found the drive was out of stock, but alternatives were offered via WinBuyer. 1 choice, a Seagate Barracuda 6Gbps drive from MCM Electronics, was listed at $92.39. I went to Pricewatch and looked at the best prices for 2TB SATA hard drives. Whether the profiteering can be attributed to manufacturers, distributors, or retailers is unclear - the middlemen don't post their prices - but consumers, businesses, and IT organizations are getting gouged.Īfter reading about sporadic hard drive price increases all over the Internet, I tried a simple experiment late Sunday night. ![]() In the past few days, the price of big-name hard drives - Seagate, Western Digital Hitachi, Samsung - at major online retailers has shot up 40 to 90 percent or more.
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