Hard drive prices

[Charlie98]

Read it and weep.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224221/Hard_drive_prices_to_remain_high_through_2014

"Prices will remain high for a number of reasons, including the higher costs associated with the relocation of production, as well as higher component costs because of flooding impacts among component makers," said Fang Zhang, a storage analyst for IHS iSuppli

Check out his name... sounds like a FPS player handle!

To me, $60-70 for a 500GB HDD is fine... only because I wasn't in the computer game at all until just November... and I don't know any better...

 

[exdeath]

Read it and weep.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224221/Hard_drive_prices_to_remain_high_through_2014

Told you. Just like gas prices, it will go up every time something bad happens, but mysteriously never come back down once the new price becomes the status quo. One way ratchet, or noose if you prefer.

Oh well off to hunt for more SSD steals.

 

[SickBeast]

I can't see prices staying high until 2014. They're going to come out with higher capacity drives that will drive the cost per gb way down.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I have great news, tomorrow is Friday.

 

[itakey]

Crazy how a drive I bought 2 years ago is more than an extra $50 today, ouch. Are SSD drives made in the same place? Seems like those drive prices are dropping so hopefully they keep on that trend

 

[magreen]

Me too. The articles say prices are up 30% over last year, but if you bought them on sale last year, the prices are up more like 300% now, because there are no good sales.

Absolutely. I love how all the articles show the hardware enthusiasts no respect!

 

[Pinecone-sw]

Originally everyone was saying the fllod would keep prices sky high for at least 2 years.

But we are already seeing drive prices falling back down. How far will they fall? It depends on how many they sell at the high prices. If sales are good, they prices will stay high. If sales slow down, the prices will come down.

Basic supply and demand.

 

[KentState]

On the enterprise side, I'd just like to see drive available. I have servers on backorder from HP because they can't get me enough drives to fill a server. For one cluster, I have one being shipped and another on backorder until May. It's almost to the point where filling it with SSD is the alternative. Even a large SAN purchased was in question because EMC didn't want to take a big hit on the HD costs since the quote was before the flooding. They had to suck it up since we got it before the quote expired.

 

[darckhart]

Told you. Just like gas prices, it will go up every time something bad happens, but mysteriously never come back down once the new price becomes the status quo. One way ratchet, or noose if you prefer.

+1 couldn't have said it better myself.