Sample size 1: every 3 months I need to buy a large hard drive (14TB+). I buy external USB ones since they are the cheapest.
Since it was due, in the last couple of weeks I was scanning prices in Romania daily, in case I get lucky with a discount. In the last week, prices surged 60-100%, and stock disappeared for 4 TB+.
I panicked and after a lot of scanning I managed to buy a slightly smaller one than I needed with just a 20% surcharge.
Prices on Amazon UK are also out of control.
So now we are out of chips, CPUs, GPUs and hard drives. What a time to be alive :)
PS: I would love to hear Backblaze take on this shortage.
Since it was due, in the last couple of weeks I was scanning prices in Romania daily, in case I get lucky with a discount. In the last week, prices surged 60-100%, and stock disappeared for 4 TB+.
I panicked and after a lot of scanning I managed to buy a slightly smaller one than I needed with just a 20% surcharge.
Prices on Amazon UK are also out of control.
So now we are out of chips, CPUs, GPUs and hard drives. What a time to be alive :)
PS: I would love to hear Backblaze take on this shortage.