Want to buy a HDD in Akihabara? Bad Timing.

Getting a new HDD was always easy enough to do. Until recently with the Thailand flooding. Now it’s hard to get a new one, and if you do, the price increase quite a bit. For those who can read Japanese: http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/hotline/20111105/etc_hdd.html and for those who don’t here an English translation.

Prices increased to about 15000 Yen/TB, which is about 3 times as much as before the flooding. Seagate works again but Western Digital is in worse shape it seems.

I was lucky: bought a 750GB 2.5″ HDD for (compared to now) cheap just about 2 weeks ago.