It's very grim. The flooding in Thailand has meant that Asus have announced that they will actually run out of hard drives before the end on November. Obviously there is a knock-on effect as a large chunk of manufacturing is underwater so everyone is trying to get their disks from a smaller manufacturing base. Prices go up, it's expected, but they will go down again once Thailand returns to production once the floods subside and they clean all the factories out (if they can) but that could take quite some time.
Thankfully I have 720Gb on this machine, a 500Gb external (100Gb NTFS, the rest WBFS), a 1Tb external, 500Gb on the PYT's laptop, 0.5Tb on my other desktop, assorted other smaller hard disks AND I'm getting another "dead" PC (methinks it's only the PSU and I have a spare one) soon so I'll have another 500Gb disk to play with......
Should do for a couple of weeks........