Hard Drive Prices

I can't help but thinking that the pre-flood prices were possibly due to over-production with the manufacturers basically cutting prices to ensure that they were getting something back on their investment. For them the floods may have been a stroke of luck as it allowed them all to reset production levels back to where the market actually was. If this is true then prices aren't going to return to pre-flood levels anytime soon.
 
I think they will return to preflood prices, I mean if they don't they aren't going to sell any as SSD's are becoming cheaper and increase in capacity.
 
It will be interesting to see how the price of drives holds up in the face of SSD's. I think we're going to be using both for a while though.

It'll probably settle around a 5TB storage/1TB SSD. That gives plenty of media storage and quite a lot for apps/games etc.
 
Mercutio said:
It will be interesting to see how the price of drives holds up in the face of SSD's. I think we're going to be using both for a while though.

It'll probably settle around a 5TB storage/1TB SSD. That gives plenty of media storage and quite a lot for apps/games etc.
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Yea I can't see the demand for hdds being as high as pre flood. Like you said with ssds outperforming hdds and becoming more affordable the manufacturers will have no choice but to lower hdd prices to match the lower demand
 
I did read somewhere that both Seagate and WD announced record profits for the first quarter of this year....

Western Digital shipped 44.2 million hard drives in the first quarter of 2012, and had a record net profit of $483 million—a 16 percent profit margin on its $3.04 billion in sales. Seagate, whose facilities weren't directly impacted by the flood, saw a 25 percent profit margin of $1.146 billion—also a record profit.
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http://arstechnica.com/information-...es-back-to-pre-flood-levels-but-prices-arent/

AFAIK they are the only two main players in desktop HD manufacturing now, I'm not sure that Toshiba count.
What with their record profits, reduced warranties and long contractual ties I can't imagine that there is much of a push on from the only two major players in the market to drop prices to the pre flood levels.
I was amazed that I could pay £50 for a 2TB HD and get a three years warranty on it for the manufacturers, distribution and retailers to make that much of a profit for it to be sustainable. Whilst there was a very real human tragedy to those floods the upside, more so for Seagate, has been a more realistic pricing of their products.
 
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