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Thanks for the info! I was going off of Camelegg but it seems like they lost their data.Before the floods a 2tb 5400 rpm drive from Hitachi/Samsung/Seagate went for $59.99.
Now almost a year after the "crisis" the prices have "stabilized" around 119.99-129.99.
I think it is time we face the fact. HDD manufacturers now know that people would still buy HDD even if the price double in price. The pre-flooding prices are gone forever.
Prices skyrocketed because HD's because a commodity. Clearly it cannot stay at rare commodity pricing forever.
A month before the flood I bought a bunch of Samsung F4 2TB's for $75, which was the pretty standard price, now it's at $129 and probably not going lower. Can't complain too much, my first hard drive I could afford new was a 4GB that was $399.
No, they didn't skyrocket because HDDs became a rare commodity. Prices soared because vendors feared there would be a shortage of HDDs....I don't recall seeing any of the HDDs on NewEgg or any other major going out of stock in the last year any more than usual. Lots of industries have done this kind of crap. As a cyclist, back when gasoline and fuel prices skyrocketed a few summers back ALL the vendors hiked their prices blaming shipping costs by a factor of 2x to 3x. Oil and fuel prices tumbled a while later, and guess what-the prices were and still are exactly at the same elevated levels and higher. The industries find people will buy the same amount of something at a much higher price...guess what, they';ll sell it at a higher price because they can.
To quote the Wizard's First Rule: "People are stupid, they will believe something because they want it to be true; or because they're afraid it might be true."
Prices on HDDs will not come down. They'll stay exactly where they are at at the various storage/performance tiers. Capacity will improve in future generations, but $100+ for an HDD is here to stay. The flood "disaster" was used simply as an industry cover to jack prices.
6 months later and HDD prices are about 1/2 of what it was late Oct '11, the analogy with Oil prices are not the same with HDD cause storage usage increases all the time while it's only gonna be increasing encouraged to the mass public to decrease Oil usage. Your're right when you say $100+ HDD are here to stay... maybe for a 4TB+ one soon enough, unless storage consumption remain the same, developers while coded their new and improved application at the same time optimize their size, companies stop developing bigger storage sizes and there was zero competition, prices will lower eventually
2TB Hitachi 5K3000's at Compusa for $59 each.
The other thing about Gas prices is that EVERYONE need Gas on a daily bases to survive, Not everyone need to purchase a 2TB Harddrive on a daily or weekly bases. But it nice to see the prices has come down, but has quality been brought back?
There are effectively two companies selling internal disks. High prices are here to stay. The flood is irrelevant.
no, actually the cost of SSDs has held fairly steady at about $1 per GB.
you're never going to store your movie collection on SSD. only a fool would suggest such a thing.
The people who suckered WD into buying Hitachi were smart. The era for mechanical drives is nearing its end and WD pretty much bought a Yugo.
oh wait, i forgot about marvell ... makers of wonderful mass storage chipsets and even more wonderful network chips ....
No, they are price fixing and racking in HUGE profits.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/HDD-...Western-Digital-Post-Big-Profits-266676.shtml
I tihnk what happened is people are missing the other multi-page thread on this topic that lets a bit more light in on what happened. But this thread is more fun for the tin-foil hat crowd. Nice that we can have threads for rational people and the tin-foils.
no, they really aren't recouping anything. they found people are willing to pay ~$1/GB for premium 'desktop' performance so that is what they charge.
btw, the SSD market is as bad as mechanical. apart from sandforce you have indilinix and intel controllers. not sure if intel white labels their controller but indilinix is now owned by ocz who likely wont whitelabel it so basically in the consumer market everyone is using sandforce controllers.
great competitive market right?
oh wait, i forgot about marvell ... makers of wonderful mass storage chipsets and even more wonderful network chips ....
spinners will be around until some sort of 3d optical storage that hits petabyte sizes supplant them. you can't get enough flash into the same space as platters and worse still flash is going to get worse as it gets smaller. higher latency, worse wear, just pretty shitty.
memristors, those have promise but are brand new tech. flash isn't new, flash has been around for years. look how long it took for flash to really catch on for large/fast mass storage. i don't expect meristors to have the same densities as flash for at least a generation or two.
spinner tech isn't stagnant either. we'll see 10TB per drive in 2-3 years. performance will still suck but you just can't do downplay how incredibly good they are at packing in the bits.