Have HDD prices gone up because of shortage?

The massive flooding in Thailand the other month may have affected the supply of hard disk drives globally and it’s expected that prices of storage devices will increase in the following months.

I have a classmate from high school working for Western Digital in Thailand and have asked for details how the company is really affected and what to expect (apparently, most HDD manufacturers operated in Thailand).

In the same note, I have also been monitoring the prices of HDDs in local market.

While prices of HDD in most local stores have remained stable so far, I’ve noticed they’re all pushing their inventories to include even the old ones (smaller capacities down to 80GB).

However, in some stores, I’ve noticed prices of 1TB HDDs have increased from under Php4k to about Php5k. That translates to about 25% price hike. Haven’t really seen a trend across the entire line but we might soon find out in the next couple of months.

Anybody else noticed the price increases in hard disk drives lately?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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33 Comments

Benchmark says:

13 years ago

well I recently bought 1TB HD at one store in Gilmore…the price is around 3K to 4K. I bought mine for Php2,950 WD, but there are cheaper ones like Hitachi and Samsung that is Php100 less…I think its PC Options.

But I remember months ago (I think July), I bought HD 500gig for Php2,100, as I asked before, if I remember it right, it is now Php2,400.
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dvancleef says:

13 years ago

Street prices in Japan on 2TB drives have doubled in the last week.
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froi says:

13 years ago

it does. suppliers are not even selling their stocks. prices are up dramatically. some stores maintained their prices but i doubt they can sustain that. they’ll follow what the market says. price up!
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Anime says:

13 years ago

WD Elements 500gb bought for 2500Php, don’t know if it went up or something
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aron hinanay says:

13 years ago

even seagate sore up their prices dut to mose part of theit hdd is made in thailand. terrible.

maybe inventories for rma is also limited so my wd 1tb hdd was still on hold. =(
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hd says:

13 years ago

samsung f3 1tb bought for Php2600 last july, now when i checked tipidpc it went up to Php4000
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crazyadmin says:

13 years ago

yes, notice ko din, yung sa isang store na pinagchecheck ko ng price.. it has gone up to around P700.. from 2k to around 2,700..
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Jhay says:

13 years ago

Oh shoot! Just when I had made up my mind that I will get a new HD this November to increase my home storage capacity. Pfft.
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Florence says:

13 years ago

I saw stores in SM Manila selling WD 1 TB for Php5,500+. Akala ko normal price yun. Yun pala may shortage na. Haha
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razorous says:

13 years ago

I was just looking at getting the WD My Book Live, yesterday at Power Mac in MOA, for 2TB cost P8960. Nag increase na kaya yung price na to?
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