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Hard drive supplies back to pre-flood levels, but prices aren’t
- MichaelApproved 14y agoAnd at the same time there's a story on HN[1] about SSDs being half their price. Enjoy the record profits while they last, the world is moving to SSDs and this will only speed up that migration. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182944 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182944
- inuhj 14y agoI doubt warranty is a major consideration when choosing between HDD and SSD drives. SSDs on the other hand have great warranties. Crucial offers 3 years while Plextor and Samsung offer 5 years.
- MichaelApproved 14y agoI didn't bring up warranty. How does that work with my comment?
- tikhonj 14y agoHe doubtlessly meant to respond to ghshephard's comment [1]. Hopefully that clears up some confusion :). [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183869 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183869
- MichaelApproved 14y agoGotcha. I was reading from the comment section of my profile and didn't see all the comments.
- ghshephard 14y agoNot only are prices up, the Major Hard drive manufactures (Seagate, Western Digital) have cut back a lot of their warrantees to only one year. Evidence suggests that the spinning disk manufacturing companies are reluctant to invest in aggressively building supply/plants because of the transition to SSDs - the market demands for Hard Drives will be met - but nobody is expecting explosive growth will continue to grow. SSDs are finally within about a factor of 3x where they need to be before their usage in Laptops hockey sticks, and a factor of 4x before they make major inroads into desktops. In about 18-24 months, we'll start to see a natural reduction in Hard Drive shipments as people just start buying fewer of them, and a _huge_ leap in SSDs and other flash based storage.
- velodrome 14y agoJust a note, consumer-grade drives had their warranty cut. HDD manufacturers have consolidated...What exists now is a duopoly. There was no reason for Seagate to cut warranties if their facilities were not affected by the natural disaster. They are never going to lift the warranty back to 3 years like before.
- philwelch 14y agoThey're already moving into the datacenter as well.
- beedogs 14y agoThey've been there for a few years already at the high end. EMC sold my former employer 2TB of SSD SAN back in '09.
- verra 14y agoThey are now making more profit while shipping less, loved it!
- jaachan 14y agoIf this is what the market is willing to pay for them, than the prices pre-flood were too low. Simple economics?