HDD price dropping in December

[DJ aka GDR DJ]

Hard drive prices in retail channels may start dropping in December

 

Several channel retailers are already preparing to dump their hard drive inventory, which was piled up due to concerns over potential shortages, in December as the imbalance between supply and demand is not as serious as originally expected and the retailers are trying to shed some stock to avoid from being hurt as hard drive capacity will be gradually restored in January and February 2012, according to sources from channel retailers.

 

Since Japan-based hard drive motor supplier Nidec already announced that one of its plants in Thailand has resumed production, while many other hard drive component suppliers are also aggressively seeking solutions to substitute their lost capacity in

Thailand, the sources believe the hard drive shortage issues will see an obvious improvement in January 2012.

 

Since the hard drive shortages may not be as serious as expected, while demand in the PC market remains weak as pricing has surpassed consumers' sweet spot, several retailers are already set to drop their hard drive prices and dump inventories into retail channel in December.

 

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DJ

[General]

Thank god. thanks 4 post.

[Jefke]

bought some small ssd's (64 gb) to put in pc's of my mom, sisters/brothers (data is stored on little home server => 15tb and gbit connection: they all have some maps where they can store data on) so there 'internetcomputers and ms office pc' get an upgrade (boot faster) and I had enough hdd (all 640gb- 1tb) in spare.

 

 

Yeah keeping shit of 7 computers is a lot work when you got 4 brothers/sisters who just buttonbash ok on everything they see,so they have totally no rights on the pc's (somethings things you learn at school + a windows server 2008 r2 you get at school are handy)

 

 

But yeah nice to see that they predict that the price will drop soon,but also read today that the production will have to recover a whole year (http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm /2011/11/17/seagate_hdd_prices_cannot_go_down_until_end_of_2012 ).

 

Wave effect?: price drops, more people buy, price increases again