Hard Drive Prices rant.

grabme

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Isn't it about time for computer retailers to bite the bullet and started selling hd's at cost to try to bring the prices down significantly? I am not buying any storage at current prices and there must be thousands more like myself.

If the prices came down though I would buy several. I usually buy drives every few months but the last time was just before the price bubble and I purposely stocked up.

This price hike must be stifling demand for computers and other devices worldwide and can't be good for jobs or the economy. I'm even put off buying a new laptop/desktop because of the additional costs and limited storage capacity so countrywide this must be hurting retailers.

Get the blinkin' prices back to normal and we all win due to the volume sold, surely Thailand have sorted out their mess by now?
 
As much as it sucks that harddrives have almost doubled in price, I don't think it helps when the factory's making them are under water; or that factory workers are homeless. Even If they've managed to pick themselfs back into production the last report I read said they will be a 50,000,000 units short for the next 12 months.
 
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grabme said:
Isn't it about time for computer retailers to bite the bullet and started selling hd's at cost to try to bring the prices down significantly? I am not buying any storage at current prices and there must be thousands more like myself.

If the prices came down though I would buy several. I usually buy drives every few months but the last time was just before the price bubble and I purposely stocked up.

This price hike must be stifling demand for computers and other devices worldwide and can't be good for jobs or the economy. I'm even put off buying a new laptop/desktop because of the additional costs and limited storage capacity so countrywide this must be hurting retailers.

Get the blinkin' prices back to normal and we all win due to the volume sold, surely Thailand have sorted out their mess by now?
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all of the red is irrelevant and will not happen

all of the green is what you should be researching
 
The manufacturers are at fault they should produce their products in their home nations rather than in some third world country that is easily affected, even the Japanese (Hitachi) and South Koreans (Samsung) are guilty of it all to make a little bit more profit off the low wages of the Chinese or Thai labourer.
 
grabme said:
This price hike must be stifling demand for computers and other devices worldwide and can't be good for jobs or the economy.
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I doubt this....

As Harddrive haven't always been dead cheap and they use to sell just fine ;)
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I guess we should also double the price of food again as there are poor people that are homeless in a country less fortunate than us. Appears that the rich on here aren't feeling too much pain.
My point was, yes there was a disaster BUT surely doubling the price is stifling demand and its surely better to keep the costs low and ship more units and quickly recoup costs rather than the loss of revenue on all other electronics dependant on storage. Then again I'm not a vulture capitalist so what do I know?
 
The companies that make hdds are probably more concerned about being underwater rather hat you having to pay a bit more for a hdd
 
grabme said:
its surely better to keep the costs low and ship more units and quickly recoup costs rather than the loss of revenue on all other electronics dependant on storage.?
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I'm sure the drive manufacturers would love to ship more units, how're they going to ship what they don't have?

Are you really expecting web stores to sell the drives at cost price? They have wages and overheads to pay, would you work for nothing just because someone was too tight to pay you?
 
I agree with the OP, I have needed a new HD for a while now, and was thinking about getting one just before prices shot up but never got round to it. There is no way I am buying any HD's at the current prices, so I am having to basically delete old/unused data to make space for more.

If the HD's were back to their pre flood prices I would have bought at least 2 new ones by now, so yes the manufacturers are definately losing money by keeping prices so high, from me anyway. :)
 
Just as well I grabbed 3x 1TB's at £45 before the disaster struck. We're going to have to suffer until Thailand (or were ever they're manufactured) sort themselves out and sure enough prices will come back down.

Nightglow said:
Should have built their factories on higher ground.
Some of WD's buildings were flooded by 2' others by up to 6' of flood water.
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Cpt. Hindsight, fair point but next it'll be "why did they build the factory on a fault line?". It sucks but no one could have been prepared for such disaster. Last thing on any ones mind was "OH NOES WHAT ABOUT THE HARD DRIVES".
 
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Psyoletic: WD must know that Thailand is prone to monsoons, & a certain amount of flooding, (but what they got was excessive), but someone made a error in choosing the location.
 
They've already come down a lot. They were at rock bottom prices before the flooding. Prices are now what I'd consider 'normal'.

They will slowly trickle down as more and more drives are produced.
 
olibb said:
I thought Seagate released their figures this / last year and they were UP on what they usually are?
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They didn't get affected by flooding that's why. And you're wrong saying the demand on HDD isn't great. You'd be surprised how much of a demand there actually is for HDD's.

I guess the same scenario could be applied to petrol. The petrol prices keep rising yet people still keep paying for it. With computers being used in the majority of every day items. These systems can't run without some form of storage.
 
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