Theyve calmed down a bit now, they were really bad up till about a month ago, 500gb went up to 150-200$ here for the same drive I paid $50 for in november, not they are about $100, still high but not as bad as it was.

About a year ago I got a 1TB WD SATA3 HDD for about $70. That very same hard drive now cost almost $200.

They make SSD's look cheap!

SSD's are cheap.
cheaply made, and even more of a scam than this fraudulent shit the HD companies are doing.
about 2 dollars worth of flash memory components on about 1 dollar of PCB for about 900 dollars?
dude you just made the most ignorant comment of the year.

about as ignorant as the claimed 28% increase, which is realistically more around 280%.

An SSD was the best upgrade I personally ever did for my PC.

Pricey, but definitely worth it.

this whole thing is just a market shifting technique, notice how the price of hd's has gone up steadily and the price of ssd's has come down. this so-called "trend" will continue until the all factories that produce hd's are either set up to produce ssd's or simply closed down.

and the rotational hard drive as we know it will soon go the way of the floppy disk and the dinosaurs and in another five years it will be like they never existed. kids will look at you like you just crawled out of a cave and call you grandpa when you use the phrase "hard disk"...

HDD's are still the best and most reliable way to store large amounts of data. Large storage SSD's are still too pricey, ($1,000's of $$$) and have been known to have issues.

HDD's will be around for awhile still. Tho the market share will certainly drop.

people thought crt's would be around forever too.

I didn't say forever. I said awhile longer.

CRT's are also still around btw.

"five years" is "a while", wouldn't you say?

btw who is manufacturing crt's these days; in what quantity and for what market? i haven't seen them being produced for pc monitors or tv's in almost a decade...

They are a hit in South America, they outsell flat panels. And some image quality enthusiast insist that CRT's still produce the better picture.

i was one of those people, i used to play 2048xsomething on my old 22" diamondtron's until i saw 1080p. i find it to be a very satisfactory standard for all purposes. a couple years ago i got a 37" vizio for my desktop and since that day i've never looked back.

on the other hand, rotational drives will never match the speed of ssd's and the capacity of ssd's is going up daily as the price tag to own one diminishes. rotational drives are a soon to be an extinct species. this "shortage" is just to pave the way...

Hmm... let's see how the laser imprinting on Magnetic surfaces will evolve.
I wouldn't say that classic HDDs are a thing of the past yet.

Hey, don't forget about table salt!

Table Salt Could Increase Hard Drive Capacity

Intel i7 2600K + 2000GB Samsung Hard Drive: $465.00

Intel Celeron G530 + OCZ 240GB Vertex III SUPER FAST SSD Drive: $465.00

I know what I choose....