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reply to aurgathor

Re: Hard Drive Prices

reply to aurgathor

Nope, Now all Samsung drives will be Seagate drives.
And somewhere in the future, all restaurants will be Taco Bell.

Apples and Oranges.

Ummm, err, Apples and Androids.

reply to Kramer
lol here's how bad things are.. my friend who knows nothing really about hardware goes out and buys a external hard drive (WD of all picks) and it's a 1TB drive which I'm using right now he's like man this thing was expensive! I spent $120 on it

It seems like 1TB for $120 external is about the best price you are going to see? I really wanted a 2TB drive

reply to Kramer
Further reading, for those interested:

»hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/0···hs-later

However, I found many user comments quite useful/revealing. My favourite (and most useful, IMO) was from someone who lives in Thailand and is basically calling bullshit on the whole ordeal:

»hardware.slashdot.org/comments.p···38964487

There's a follow-up reply to this comment from someone arguing against it, but honestly it's the same head-in-the-sand BS I read during the many times where there were "DRAM shortages" as a result of catastrophes in Asian countries (and if I remember right, one of those turned out to result in a class-action lawsuit, which I believe Dell was in on as well). As such, I'm inclined to believe the bloke from Thailand.
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Making life hard for others since 1977.
I speak for myself and not my employer/affiliates of my employer.

did you read the follow ups on his post? That one guy says about how the buyer will move onto other drives.. well most did.. the SSD...

'Most' buyers have moved to SSDs? Don't think so, they are still a bit too pricy and small for mainstream use even compared to elevated HD prices. The typical SSD buyer wants the speed but is still using one or more HDs to store data.

SSD's are WAY too small for my use. One for Windows, yes, but not much else.

That's why people buy them for an OS drive and use a large magnetic disk drive to store their files. That way you get the best of both worlds.
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reply to pnjunction

Very easy to make up statistics eh?

Can you show something showing the sale of SSD going up a hugeeee amount and the sale of hdd plummeting?

I would guess not, so ya do say everyone or most or whatever you made up went SSD when you can back it up

reply to koitsu
Prices are already falling depending on what drive you are looking at. The WD Black series drives are still outrageously priced, but there are drives out there maybe not quite as reliable that are a good deal. The blacks are approaching a price point I would consider buying them againj. I'm going to put in a price because these links a month from now will just show the current price.

Seagate 2TB 129.99 »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22148681 Pretty close to pre-flood pricing
WD Blue 750GB 109.99 »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22136768 down $40 but still wacko
WD Black 1TB $159.99 »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22136284 Still crazy, but down 50 bucks
Seagate 1TB 124.99 »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···22148840 5 bucks more will buy you 2TB, no deal here, but the price will not make you cry

I don't know whether this is all bull, but I do know what goes up, has to come down.

reply to matt5
Pre-flood I was paying $69 for 2TB WD Greens. Pricing still has a long way to fall.

And ST2000NM0011 still hasn't come back in stock
in fact newegg doesn't have any 6gb/s sata Constellation drives

reply to Camelot One
Some good articles:
»www.extremetech.com/computing/11···ime-soon
»www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/busin···nted=all

From what I read, Thailand is in danger of losing a lot of jobs, not due to the flooding, but due to a lack of leadership. A lot of equipment got destroyed and I don't think these companies are just going to rebuild (In Thailand) unless something is done to reassure the business community that the government is serious about preventing this from happening again.

reply to matt5

reply to Kramer
Why would they build in a flood zone anyway? Maybe they thought it was just a one time thing?