Friday, February 24th 2012
HDD Volumes To Restore 80% in Q1 2012
In what could alleviate high prices of hard disk drives (HDDs) after the devastating flood in Thailand that affected HDD foundries, industry sources predict that the reconstruction efforts of these foundries, led by Western Digital, will pay off to a large extant. In Q1 2012 alone, global volumes of HDDs are expected to restore to 80% of what they were before the floods. The global production of HDDs will increase to 140-145 million units.
HDD vendors across the board have exhausted their inventories in Dec-Jan when they supply PC/notebook ODMs their inventories of HDDs, but they haven't hiked quotes due to the off-season that followed. However, the flood situation isn't the only factor that will affect HDD prices. With increase in prices of raw materials, components, and labour-costs, HDD prices are expected to go up 30-40%.
Source:
DigiTimes
HDD vendors across the board have exhausted their inventories in Dec-Jan when they supply PC/notebook ODMs their inventories of HDDs, but they haven't hiked quotes due to the off-season that followed. However, the flood situation isn't the only factor that will affect HDD prices. With increase in prices of raw materials, components, and labour-costs, HDD prices are expected to go up 30-40%.
20 Comments on HDD Volumes To Restore 80% in Q1 2012
so there will be a drop in price just not as low as before:shadedshu
Im sure most people like myself used to buy a new HDD when upgrading their PC as they were so cheap... the kind of crap that most home users (including myself) store on their 1TB+ HDD's is so petty anyways that its not worth paying big money for.
Samsung>WD "yea man, but how??"
Thailand Floods happen :eek:.......
WD> Samsung "Yo, you thinking what I am :cool:"
Samsung> WD "hell yea bro :rockout:"
...................... After a while when things look set to be returning to normal
WD> Samsung "Shit we can't milk the floods any longer, any ideas?? :banghead: "
Samsung> WD "Well we could say that raw materials have increased substantially even though HDD production is back up and we haven't reduced the cost per GB to what it was before the floods it will give us an excuse to hike them up to where they were when they were at their highest during the quote haha shortage!!!"
WD> Samsung "Shit man, thats some clever thinking right there, hahahaha suckerzzzzzzzzzz :nutkick: "
We might be here awhile ;)
I've been waiting since the floods. Had a cute ITX system with 6 x 2TB all planned out, just saved up enough to pay for it, than bam! The prices jumped.
Samsung isn't in the HDD business anymore.
Lovely, ain't Oligopolies a beautiful thing :shadedshu
they would be shooting themselves in the foot because SSDs are the future