Suspicions rising about the still inflated hard drive prices

As the article states, the "floods ruined our manufacturing plants and now there's a shortage" excuse for the insane HDD prices we've been having to put up with since about October time won't last forever. I'm beginning to think now that manufacturer's are just cashing in high prices now. Recently I've been trying to configure budget PCs for customers and the one thing that is preventing me from making the system cheap, other than Windows, is the cost of hard drives. At the moment a 500GB drive will set me back £70, it's ridiculous! I was reading through some old quotes I wrote for customers back in May 2011 and back then I could get my hands on a 500GB drive for roughly £30, and if you think that's bad, my 2TB WD drive cost me about £60 back in December 2010, now the same drive costs over £100 in most places. I'm not sure if the prices of HDDs will ever go as low as they were before, but I think SSDs will get bigger, faster and cheaper.

And yes, it's not a very-well written article to be honest.
 
Yes but the base of the article is fact, if anything the prices have crept up a bit higher, i have been browsing for a hard drive tonight and it is £50 for a crappy sata 2 160gb.

You would think the prices would a have dropped quite a bit by now, the floods reason has run out.

Then you add to that the reports that the quality of the drives are lower, and you see it has become a scam.
 
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The author of that article is basing everything on this quote from Digitimes:
Due to increased costs of components and materials, HDD prices are likely to rise 30-40% from the level before the floods by the end of 2012, the sources indicated.
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He's confused because they say the price is going to rise, however 30-40% over pre-flood prices would still be a drop. So he's automatically assuming that they mean 30-40% over current prices, which is clearly not what's being stated.

He must be out of the loop, because hard drive prices have already started falling. IIRC, preflood prices for a 320GB 2.5" Western Digital Blues were about $55. After the flood they peaked somewhere around $120 I believe, but have now dropped down to about $90, and there was a sale on them a few days ago for $70. Prices are clearly dropping.

That being said, I very much believe that HDD manufactures will milk this disaster for as long as they can. Every day that the prices remain elevated means huge profit margins for the manufactures. I'd like to believe that big corporations wouldn't abuse such a thing just for money, but I don't live in a fantasy land.
 
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Yes they have started to fall *a little* but they are still very high, too high in fact. Even in November 2011 when configuring a gaming system for a customer I could get a 750GB WD drive for just £34. I don't think anybody really knows when or if the prices will fall back to where they were only 4 months ago. This could possibly be the beginning of the end to mechanical hard drives.
 
No the prices have fallen, just a little bit, maybe by £10. That 500GB drive costs me £70 now, or there about, but a month ago it would have probably cost me £80. They are very slowly dropping...
 
Well after reading alot of wining about harddrive prices i went and looked on e-bay,i must be the only one that can type e-bay,lol

samsung 40GB $10 / maxtor 80GB $14 / seagate 146GB $14 / Hitachi 80GB $15 /
WD 80 GB $15 / Seagate 120 GB $17 / WD 320GB $19 / Seagate 200GB $20 /
WD 500GB $60 / WD 250 GB $40 / WD 300GB $40

took me around 15 minutes to find these
 
I wish they were that price on ebay uk, cheapest i found was £20 for a wd 160gb, seems a bit like the price of the larger drives is a bit lower, but not the smaller drives, so you have to pay £20 for a 160gb but you can get a 500gb for £30.

That seems to be the same for new drives as well, the price gap between small drives and large one has narrowed
 
All of this started when Americans spent too much money on a war in Iraq that were directed by president Bush.Everything started from him...and the banks...

The country is in a big crisis and most of the people don't have a job and most of them lost it and they still do every single day.Those who do have a job work a lot like slaves for a small pay check to be able to pay the debts.Only those debts are not theirs...

Considering the current crisis which is pretty big and which especially is vulnerable for smaller and weaker countries,most of the people die from big famine every single day and 50% of population lives on 2 dollars per day.Hard disk drives are the last thing on their minds...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are...

One this is for sure:

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG...

Slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers,...while the European plan is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages (pay checks).

It's a system of modern slavery...and people are not aware of that.

People are in debts more and more and therefore they take the loans in the banks...

Money is created out of debt,and what people do when they are in debt?
They submit to employment in order to pay it off.
But if money can only be created out of loans...then how can society ever be debt free???

IT CAN'T...AND THAT'S THE POINT...

So by the end of the day...who do you work for?

The banks...
Money is created in the banks and always ends up in the banks...
They are the true masters along with the corporations and governments they support.

Physical modern today's slavery requires people to be housed and fed.Economics slavery requires people to feed and house themselves.

And that my dear people is the most genius scam for a social manupilation ever created and at it's core it is an invisible war against the population and it is the reason why hard disk drives are so expensive...

Debt is a weapon used to control the society and interest is it's prime amunition.

And as the majority (people) walks around oblivious to this reality.......,the banks in colusion to governments and corporations continue to spread and expand their tacticts of economic warfare.....such as the World bank and international monetary fund while also inventing a new type of soldier:

THE BIRD OF ECONOMIC HITMAN...


So why are hard disk drives so expensive?
Ask the corporations...





Cheers!
 
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No the prices have fallen, just a little bit, maybe by £10. That 500GB drive costs me £70 now, or there about, but a month ago it would have probably cost me £80. They are very slowly dropping...
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Prices have indeed fallen. Multitronic (a store in Finland) shows the price development for every item they sell and when looking at hard drives (like WD Caviar Green 2TB) you can see that prices have fallen quite a bit from the peak.
 
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