[nycbug-talk] After the floods: hard drives

[George Rosamond]

On 01/17/12 09:33, Isaac Levy wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:20 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
>
>> Any decent outlets for getting hard drives after the floods in Thailand?
>>
>> Pricewatch.com has pre-flood pricing on drives, but they are all dead links and/or refurbished. . .
>>
>> George
>
> Depends on the drives you want- I've had no problem getting at drives through various online vendors, (bounce from pricewatch, general searches, etc…), they're all just 200-300% the cost, depending…
>

Oh, yeah.  I know the drives are available. .. it's a question of cost.

Don't want to dump $300 on 2tb SATA drives when they were $85 not too 
long ago.

Wonder to what extent there's real or false scarcity in the big picture.

g