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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: dogsinafen on November 01, 2011, 03:40:22 PM ---Prices have gone up on ncix and newegg... not impressed...
Guess I'll be waiting a few more months before building my file server... sure as hell not buying 9 drives while they are this high in price.
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It might take more than a few months for prices to go back to the level prior to this. A few large suppliers of parts of hard drives are located in the affected areas. Which means that even if they ramp up production at other places they have no parts to build the hard drives with. Then after everything is up to normal prices will remain high for a while as the retailers get rid of their expensive drives in favour of the cheap ones (the same drives, just at different buy prices for them).
kitamesume:
^ unless some ass retailer causes a domino effect by suddenly going to drop his/her price to match the "should be" price.
its a nice plan to pull in customers, specially if you're the only one selling them for a cheap price around the area.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on November 01, 2011, 07:29:36 PM ---^ unless some ass retailer causes a domino effect by suddenly going to drop his/her price to match the "should be" price.
its a nice plan to pull in customers, specially if you're the only one selling them for a cheap price around the area.
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There will be some sort of effect of that kind. Since there are different times for different retailers some will be forced to drop their prices to sell at all. The suppliers behind most smaller places will most likely move on to cheaper prices quickly, same with sites like newsegg (sp?) and other large retailers. It will depend on how large the stocks will build up and so on. I don't know enough to get a full picture.
Won't this drive up ssd prices short term where people start opting for them instead? To then bring it down afterwards when they have larger production?
Natheria:
Am so glad i bought my new drive a couple months back. Just looked at prices on Newegg and they're disgusting.
Freedom Kira:
Likewise. I got six 3TB Hitachis for $120 less $10MIR each. The price is freaking $260 now.
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