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Hard Drive Prices Falling Already?
- Thread starter tonyb
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They're inching back down, probably the market overreacted at first and prices went artificially high. As the manufacturing plants come back up they'll continue to come back down. Still pretty high considering over the summer I bought a box of 2TB Samsung's for $75 ea.
Here's one data point, hard drive selection at newegg:
$10 to $25 (14)
$25 to $50 (16)
$50 to $75 (4) <- all four are recertified 250GB or less.
$75 to $100 (25) <- 7 are recertified; of the new ones, one is a $99 750GB Hitachi and the rest are 500GB or less
$100 to $200 (51) <- cheapest 1TB drives are $130; cheapest 2TB is a Hitachi with not great ratings that sold for $60 on Black Friday and now sells for $150.
Supplies (and therefore prices) are now expected to be the worst in February 2012 and are not expected to get back to normal until 2013:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222522/Impact_of_hard_drive_shortage_to_linger_through_2013
$10 to $25 (14)
$25 to $50 (16)
$50 to $75 (4) <- all four are recertified 250GB or less.
$75 to $100 (25) <- 7 are recertified; of the new ones, one is a $99 750GB Hitachi and the rest are 500GB or less
$100 to $200 (51) <- cheapest 1TB drives are $130; cheapest 2TB is a Hitachi with not great ratings that sold for $60 on Black Friday and now sells for $150.
Supplies (and therefore prices) are now expected to be the worst in February 2012 and are not expected to get back to normal until 2013:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222522/Impact_of_hard_drive_shortage_to_linger_through_2013
collegeboy69us
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I have a feeling the market over-reacted.
I've been trying to sell (in the FS/FT section) a 3TB used once WD Green drive I don't need for 180 shipped - and nobody has bitten.
Kinda feel for the guys that ran out and bought 1000 dollars worth of drives hoping to flip them and double their money.
I've been trying to sell (in the FS/FT section) a 3TB used once WD Green drive I don't need for 180 shipped - and nobody has bitten.
Kinda feel for the guys that ran out and bought 1000 dollars worth of drives hoping to flip them and double their money.
Since early in the crisis I'm thinking the price would settle down quickly, so I didn't buy anything at crazy prices (but I was still able to stock 27TB at good prices). Settling down doesn't mean back to normal, unfortunately. Supply and demand dictates that until production is back 100% (and probably even 120%, since we're talking about a growing market, and there will be catching up to do), prices won't be what they were. They'll probably stabilize to something like 30% more than before the floods, for a long time.
Yes, it would behoove them to keep the prices higher than they "should" be to offset the costs that they've incurred, at least for a while.
Supply/demand is not a cost. But when supply is short, it's of course an incentive to increase the prices, because if the manufacturer doesn't do it, the others down the line will do it anyway.