Hard drive prices - for those that don't go into General Hardware

ExRayTed said:
So now it has nothing to do with the widgets thing? It's more to do with good business being balancing your price on where the supply and demand meet?
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It's both, obviously?

A business has a right to make more of a profit
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The rest of your post is irrelevent because even this bit is true.

The purpose of a business is to maximise shareholder value. Of course it has a right to maximise profit where it can provided that it does so within the law of the country in which it trades!

Why on earth wouldnt it have a right to make more of a profit for seemingly any reason it chooses?

Ordinarily if there was no supply situation a company raising prices would simply be undercut by another. But in a low supply/higher price situation this becomes harder to do, giving the opportunity to increase profits to make up for the shortfall in sales as a result of disrupted supplies.
 
Interested to see what it does do to SSD production, as afaik it's only mechanical drives that are affected, obviously short term demand will increase but it should longer term be a positive.

One of the more interesting posts has been the suggestion that they relocate production somewhere else, while it does probably make more business sense (if there's anywhere else with equivalent cheap workforce), it would be so ethically dubious that it would massively tarnish the company's reputation.
"All our thousands of employees have lost their homes and are going to be without work while the plant remains closed, I know, let's close that plant permanently so that they don't have a job to go back to ever." It would be a contentious thing to do under normal circumstances, in the middle of a natural disaster, somewhat worse.
 
Like how my build price has gone up 3 times due to the seagate 2tb hdd going up nearly £50....

Would've ordered like 3 days ago if the store would accept my BFPO address....

Wish they'd get back to my webnote already.
 
jaybee said:
Why did they all cluster production between all major companies in one area of the world in a potential flood zone?
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Cheap cost of production. One of the reasons why HDs have become so cheap. They used to make them in Europe as well. Do you want to go back to European production and the old high prices?
 
I thought I was getting done when I paid £115 for my 2TB WD Caviar Black a while back while Samsung F4's were a measly £54 each.

Makes me feel superior to see all old price drives sold out and the remaining blacks looking set to break past £200 in a day or so.

;)
 
Talking about drives not working...

I've got a F4 that keeps vanishing.

It's empty but that's not the point, better not be bloody dying, at this rate the shop'd rather give me the money back than replace the drive.
 
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