alive hunter
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Storage Solutions HardDisk Price?
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Are you serious, I heard that it was coming down in April -- May period this year.
cooleagle
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It may be a wait too long as my current HDDs could die on me till then.
Well, even if the prices reduce, they will not come to either pre 10/2011 levels, and also, neither will the warranty.
cooleagle
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HailStonE
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cooleagle
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So Seagate made hay when the sun was shining bright by increasing their price & reducing warranty even when they were not affected by it much.
Now looking at the present scenario the normalization of prices will depend on what competition(WD) will bring to the table.
As in it all depends on when WD can again offer HDDs at lower cost to set the prices right.
Its finally going to be a Seagate v/s WD market as other players get taken over by these giants.
I don't think we'll get those prices / warranty to the pre floods level if both of these companies decide to keep prices high.
HDD prices may come back to Oct-11 state (Rs 2750 for 1TB) only after Oct-12, then too it may approach Rs 3500-4000.
What is worrying is that overall almost all pc component prices were raised in Dec-Jan by 10-12% due to the rise in $ rates (Was almost Rs53). Now that the rate is below Rs50 ......... No one has reduced the inflated rates
What will the Budget bring up shortly is "unpredictable"...... Will it go North or South ?
What is worrying is that overall almost all pc component prices were raised in Dec-Jan by 10-12% due to the rise in $ rates (Was almost Rs53). Now that the rate is below Rs50 ......... No one has reduced the inflated rates
What will the Budget bring up shortly is "unpredictable"...... Will it go North or South ?
I think they should come down as logically keeping it high doesn't mean you make more profit as demand decreases so the end result is just the same... In the long run you end up making more loss as inventory holding cost is very high. Also in case of IT products which have a very short product life cycle this can result in huge loses in later stages when new drives come and drive the older drives prices down, then you just get some salvage value for the original wholesale price you paid for... If this price hike is kept artificially high it will result in huge and I mean huge losses for distributors or the manufacturers in the long run...
As far as I understand, Japan recently also had the very unfortunate quakes and sea based calamaties... that did'nt send all the toyotas and hondas sky high... maybe thats not a good analogy but still!. To top it off, there's also the fact that if WD/Seagate think they can easily recover the costs/ losses incurred during these floodings thru increased pricing then nothing's gonna stop them. I guess millions of HDDs are sold around the world every month and once they see the old economies of scale returning it might ease up (a little
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But I think the real tragedy was the SSD; come to think of it, if there'd been no flooding, no inc in price, then can you imagine how many users would've switched to these by the end of 2012? damn!
Lets hope for the best,,, i;m busy buring data to dvds
But I think the real tragedy was the SSD; come to think of it, if there'd been no flooding, no inc in price, then can you imagine how many users would've switched to these by the end of 2012? damn!
Lets hope for the best,,, i;m busy buring data to dvds
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