<story><title>1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=62</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>HD prices right now are reacting the same way gas pump prices go up when crude does, even though their local tanks are full.&lt;p&gt;Quick to rise, slow to fall. The real crisis will be at the end of November. But the market won&apos;t recover until next year.&lt;p&gt;Good for SSD I guess which already had falling prices.&lt;p&gt;ps. HD103SJ is a fantastic drive but bad for price comparisons since it almost never went below $50 - Seagate also bought Samsung&apos;s HD division so who know what is going to happen to those great drives now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffdavis</author><text>&quot;HD prices right now are reacting the same way gas pump prices go up when crude does, even though their local tanks are full.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Isn&apos;t that what &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; happen? When there is a supply interruption, then the local inventory needs to last longer. The primary way to make that happen in a market economy is for prices to rise.</text></comment>
<story><title>1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month</title><url>http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=62</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>HD prices right now are reacting the same way gas pump prices go up when crude does, even though their local tanks are full.&lt;p&gt;Quick to rise, slow to fall. The real crisis will be at the end of November. But the market won&apos;t recover until next year.&lt;p&gt;Good for SSD I guess which already had falling prices.&lt;p&gt;ps. HD103SJ is a fantastic drive but bad for price comparisons since it almost never went below $50 - Seagate also bought Samsung&apos;s HD division so who know what is going to happen to those great drives now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>And good for Apple since they purchase all their SSDs years in advance for highly discounted prices.</text></comment>