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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
NaRu:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 07, 2012, 02:51:10 PM ---ehhhhhhhhhhhh... i wish i could get HDDs at those ridiculous discounts too...
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Before the floods I was able to buy a 3TB HDD WD Green for $130 on Newegg. I want those prices back!
AnimeJanai:
Well, back last year, there were more HDD competitors than just two. So even if two companies decided to "peg" prices relative to each other (informal price fixing), the third competitor would upset the party and undercut the prices. So we had a "price war" where the drive prices kept going downwards quite a bit.
Since former competitors' HDD divisions (Samsung and Hitachi) have been bought up by Western Digital and Seagate, there are only two main drive sources in the USA consumer market. Here's hoping some Chinese or Taiwanese company will enter the market and force the drive prices down. It makes you sort of wonder why hasn't this happened yet????
kitamesume:
^ its because this scenario is currently running on the HDD manufacturer.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 08, 2012, 01:16:55 PM ---scenario:
"you usually sell candies for 1$ each and alot of people buys, suddenly the market became expensive making you sell candies for 2$ each but since people knows about it they'll still buy, the market settles and you can now sell candies back at 1$ each but people got used to buying 2$ each, will you go back to selling 1$ each?"
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replace "candies" with HDDs.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: AnimeJanai on January 09, 2012, 05:01:34 AM ---Well, back last year, there were more HDD competitors than just two. So even if two companies decided to "peg" prices relative to each other (informal price fixing), the third competitor would upset the party and undercut the prices. So we had a "price war" where the drive prices kept going downwards quite a bit.
Since former competitors' HDD divisions (Samsung and Hitachi) have been bought up by Western Digital and Seagate, there are only two main drive sources in the USA consumer market. Here's hoping some Chinese or Taiwanese company will enter the market and force the drive prices down. It makes you sort of wonder why hasn't this happened yet????
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When drives were so cheap it would have been pointless for a company to get into the HDD market. Now since the price is so high they have a better change to make so money. I think we will see a third company coming into play.
kitamesume:
^ expect that to happen after months of wait, can't really see a no-name brand appearing out of nowhere being so popular all of the sudden.
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