HDD Prices coming down again?

Before the flooding in Thailand a 500GB Momentus XT costed 90 euros, during the flooding it went to 160 euros a couple of days ago. Today the price was 110 euros, close to pre flooding levels.

 

Indeed it is. They may have gotten the factories up and running again.

 

So I guess all the people who said it was a bunch of baloney may have been on to something...

 

The factories are up and running again...like this report of the seagate factory. However, expect higher prices for the next 6-12 months while they try to fill the backlog

HDD makers plug Thai flood supply gap - a bit - Still short for 2012 | TechEye

 

Yeah I read that. It seems that prices are coming down much quicker than they're saying.

Seagate Momentus 750GB (non XT) came down from ~130 euros to 90 euros.

 

I'm not complaining, I could use a couple more 1-2tb drives when the price is right.

Maybe companies are realizing that no one will buy their inflated-price HDDs.

 

Who cares about Seagate, Scorpio Black 750GB is $200. That ain't right at all

 

Western Digital Drives are still high in price. Really the only brand I buy.

 

I think now Seagate started lowering prices others will follow.

The HDD manufacturers are all inter dependent.

 

Scorpio Blue 500 is $110, Black 500 is $150 and Black 750 is $180. No more free shipping for any of them so add another $6. Limit 1 per customer. They don't want you to buy more than one for some reason. This is Newegg.

 

I remember reading that Seagate's factories were the least affected by the flooding due to their geographic location. They were more bound by material and component supply in the wake of the crisis. On the other hand, WD was hammered.

 

Yea they were. A lot of there equiptment was on the first floor

 

Not a nice picture, here the prices exploded when the flooding occurred and they are SLOWLY, slowly going down (Czech republic).

Its not pretty picture at all either.
-Mel

Graph link: (left hand price in CZK (20 CZK = 1 USD, 25 CZK = 1 EUR), dates at bottom)

 

Picked up a 1.5TB drive for $69.99 off TigerDirect yesterday (the 320gb I'm currently using for backups is too small and failed to complete the last one I did due to running out of space), granted it's a two-day sale but still that's almost normal price.

 

It wasn't baloney. The flooding was real and production facilities were severely damaged.

This set off a panic and many people were running to buy drives. Retailers realized this and bumped up the prices by quite a lot. It was understood that once the panic died down prices would start falling. This is why prices are coming down.

It'll probably be a while before the prices are back to what they were a few months ago.

 

Hard drives are still mad expensive at my workplace, though the discount is still good. Everything is easily minimum 40% more expensive, the worst were 2 TB 7200 rpm drives at one point was nearly 300 dollars.

 

Did anyone actually buy those at that price? I'd imagine the type of people who would be buying hard drives separately are the kind of people who are also keeping up with tech news, and who know prices will go back down.

 

I did notice that my used hard drives on ebay aren't going for retarded prices any more. I start them all at $0.99 with no reserve and some of the prices a typical 320GB laptop hard drive would sell for made my eyes pop out. They are selling more at their older prices now but still a little on the high side.