A Bit Off Topic : High HDD price is making me think a lot before buying a game

everyone knows that it's just a reason to raise the price, even the distributor knows that, it's not the real reason for the high HDD price, and besides i wasn't asking about the reason of why the price is rising.

Edit : besides there is no limited stocks, i know this because i knew one of the distributor, HDD stock is not limited because of the flooding, the flooding only halt the production for a short amount of time.

wow - I did not know that... was wondering why I was having a hard time finding good deals on hard drives. Guess they're dealing with a lot worse than 10 cents a gig.

Still sux tho' I need one of those 1 or 2 TB monsters and would like to set up an external backup as well.

well games are different in sizes, most indie games are small in sizes, but AAA games are too big, i have the total war collection, and 3 of them are 20 Gigg each, and btw i have around 121 games.

I have at least 2 games that by themselves take over 50 GB

EDIT: don't know what I was smokin' - did a check and don't have anything close to 50 GB - do have some hogs but the biggest currently installed is Richard Burns Rally with the RSRBR mod just under 20 GB - doesn't take long to fill up a hard drive anyway...

the things that is making me thinks before buying a games because of low HDD space is :

1. When will the HDD price drop, is it soon ? or is it still a long time from now ?

2. if i bought the games that goes on sale now, what if the game price drops when i finally bought a new HDD ?

3. if i bought the games now, when i can finally download and install it, will i still be interested in that game ?

and lots more reasons.

well i also only bought games that i'm interested in, if i bought every game on steam sale, i think my library wont be just 121 games, i can't play a lot of them because of available HDD space.

i don't think they still sell them on MB size.

and that can not be called as HDD shortage, that's called the seller trying to scam you.

Are you sure you don't mean GB? 120MB isn't enough for anything worthwhile. :)

and they may not return to normal, if they satisfied with their current profit, from jacking the price up.

and it's a 2 company monopoly right now, since the competitor for internal drive is bought out by them.

They're already going back down to normal... If you take time to shop around (5mins on google/pc hardware websites..) you'll be able to find a bargain. After the floods, HDD's here went up 2 to 3 times the regular price but since maybe mid-November, they've slowly been coming down again. This is because people have stopped buying them as stores have marked up the prices so much but now the stores are slowly reducing the prices again because they have too much stock and realise people are just waiting out till they go back down in price again.

If you're lucky, you might be able to find a store having a sale on a few HDD models and you'll be able to pick them up for the same price you could 6 months back. I actually picked up a 2TB WD Caviar Black for $99 earlier this month.

i built my pc around 2006, and i think my HDD is 200GB seagate, and i think i bought it around 60-70$, can't remember the exact price.

YEEEESSSSSSSSS..!

bad things happen if they're not - and I have to have a minimum of 3 running at any one time so I can alt+tab to each
and something paused on the PlayStation 3

really ? but i can assure you that what's in my store is not the high end product type for samsung HDD, they did not put any detail, so i didn't know which one is the one sold here, but i'm guessing the cheapest product that samsung HDD has.

My problem is that I never finish games except for the occasional casual game that doesn't take much space anyway.

mine is only 1TB, and it got my ripped music, steam games, and japanese animation, and i got less than 100GB left.

that's the reason why i wanted to upgrade to 2TB, i thought that 1 TB is enough.

besides nowadays games are huge, 3 Total war game @ 20GB each, TF2 @10GB, and another 100 titles.

steam gave me orange box, during the steam holiday sale.

the first computer I had was a Packard Bell 75mhz pentium with an 850mb hard drive...
I remember thinking "WOW - 850mb! that's huge I'll never have to worry about that getting full"

even thought some expensive games are on my wishlist, it doesn't meant that i'm gonna buy them right away, it meant that it's on my pending till it's affordable lists, or till the price is right.

i did not downloaded any hentai, and i already moved some of my anime to my backup HDD, but my backup HDD is already reach it's limit.

besides my thread is for asking "did you guys experience the same thing as me ?", not for looking at a solution to my issue, because i already know the solution, and i just wanted to know how many of you guys are on the same page as me.