The new cryptocurrency provoked a twofold increase in prices for hard drives

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In just a few weeks, retail prices for hard drives have grown exponentially. In particular, 8 TB drives on the Savelovsky market in Moscow cost from 40,000 rubles, the Vedomosti correspondent was convinced, while at the beginning of April they cost about 20,000 rubles. The 10 TB drive, which cost 30,000 rubles in April, is now being sold for almost 90,000 rubles, confirms one of the sellers. According to him, the larger the disk capacity, the more the price has risen. Over the past month, hard drives have doubled or tripled in price, employees at other retail outlets confirmed. Accumulators are becoming scarce, they admit. Some of the sellers with whom Vedomosti spoke, recommends ordering discs in advance, others say bluntly that deliveries are not expected in the near future.

The rise in prices for hard drives is also confirmed by data from Yandex.Market. For example, the Seagate SkyHawk 8 TB model has doubled in price compared to the beginning of April to RUB 39,990. The price of a device of the same capacity from Toshiba increased by the same amount. A 10-terabyte Seagate disk on Yandex.Market was offered on May 10 for 56,450 rubles. – this is 2.5 times more expensive than in April. At the same time, many disc models disappeared from sale. A similar situation at Ozon: “Over the past two weeks, compared to the same period last year, sales of hard drives in units have grown by 70%. First of all, the demand for drives with a volume of 4 terabytes or more is growing, ”says Natalya Selikhova, head of the Computers and Notebooks department at Ozon.

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