When are Hard Drive prices going to fall?

[Segg]

Does anyone know when or if the hard drive prices are going to fall back to the "pre-flood" prices?

 

[reactor_sa]

Never. That is my opinion.

 

[Zarathustra]

When the Rand/Dollar exchange rate is in our favour again...

 

[dualmeister]

Never. That is my opinion.

+1

 

[ben dover]

That's like saying "When will the petrol Price fall again"?

When companies get used to making more money, why on earth would they revert back to a year ago?
It's simple business and economics...

 

[grok]

Methinks it's not the manufacturers fleecing us, it's the supply chain.

 

[OMB]

bloody bunch of pessimists

HDD prices have already started dropping

 

[Scooby_Doo]

I have read some articles throwing 2014 around as when drives will reach 2011 prices.

 

[Esquire]

HDD prices have already started dropping

+1
Hard drives are lower now than they were six months ago and will continue to drop we just got our WD range in today will do specials on them for the weekend once the branches got stocks- However the Rand/Dollar is playing a bit of havoc on pricing at the moment as they could have been much lower.

 

[HavocXphere]

bloody bunch of pessimists

HDD prices have already started dropping

Unfortunately the pessimism is warranted in this case. Supply has been restored (since April) yet prices are still high. Hell Seagate even managed to record a record profit.

 

[SouthBit]

There are many threads on this topic. They've just gone up again recently due to the R/$ exchange. I highly doubt they will ever drop to pre-flood levels.

 

[marine1]

Without doubt in my mind they are milking it.
You cannt tell me this is still due to the flooding?
And you cannot tell me the Rand dollar is making them this high

 

[FrankCastle]

In dollar terms when the Chinese yuan strengthens and our rand weakens we pretty much fukked with imports.
Rand»dollar»yuan = 30% loss in currency or there about.

 

[Avenue]

what were the pre-flood prices?

 

[Gtx Gaming]

what were the pre-flood prices?

R600 a 2tb

 

[Arthur]

I've been in the industry for decades, and prices have barely changed in 30 years.

A top-end HDD in 1983 was about R4000. Today, a top-end HDD is much the same.

Ditto with PCs, as per Jerry Pournelle's Rule of Thumb in Byte Magazine.

Speeds, feeds and capacities have evolved somewhat, it must be acknowledged.

(Yes, I know about inflation, etc. But it's interesting nevertheless.)

 

[LazyLion]

This was on sale today at CSSI....

http://oldweb.cipherwave.co.za/inde...b87&sub=5892-efccf2aa72eb52bb166a603d317cca73

3Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm Internal Desktop Drive... R1548.00

 

[Flowerhat]

i guess when hdd like 250gig and 500gig get phazed out with bigger drives 3-4tb we might see pre flood prices on the low end drives

 

[OMB]

A top-end HDD in 1983 was about R4000. Today, a top-end HDD is much the same.

and what did your R4k get you then 20MB's?

 

[Arthur]

In 1983? 5MB external with controller card. 20MB only came in 1984.