A Chance to Make Some Money on Hard Drives

[Lanny]

Not sure if anyone's interested, but I've just been browsing around, looking at black friday deals and whatnot. I saw this :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145299

it's $50 with the promo code EMCJJHE47 which is well below the market standard for a 500GB Hitachi drive. Considering the recent flooding in Thailand and spike in HD prices, you could pick up a few and offload them on ebay or craigslist or the like in a month or so for two to three times that price. A little hunting around might turn up some even better deals.

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

[quzok]

$50 isn't that much lower than regular market price for a 500GB Hitachi. Your margins on it will be awful.

Also if you wait too long you risk the factories starting back up - they've been flooded for months now and have to come back online sometime.

[mynameisfrankenstein]

anyone technically savvy enough to need to buy a hard drive by itself is going to buy from these places i'd imagine.

[Lanny]

You'd be surprised. In the last month I've seen comparable drives go in the 100 dollar range. As for factories restarting, it's pretty doubtful there's going to be a meaningful increase in drive availability before the year is out.