(Bad News) Seagate: HDD production wont normalize till end of 2012

[vizkid2005]

2day I asked price of 1TB WD green ... u wont believe wat he qouted ... 5.35k !!!! I mean WTF! !!! I got it 4 1.9k exactly 1 yr bak! !!! are they selin HDDs or gold! !!!

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[skeletor]

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Moved to Tech News.

 

[Vyom]

Oh man! This is really bad. HDD of one of my system has already crashed. And another is just 80 GB, and definitely won't suffice for next one year!

Btw, I am assuming that this would also affect External HDD's and Pen Drives also. Will it?

 

[d6bmg]

^^ Not the pen drives. But it will affect external HDDs in the same way.

 

[guru_urug]

Moved to Tech News.

sorry ico...my bad

 

[coderunknown]

Btw, I am assuming that this would also affect External HDD's and Pen Drives also. Will it?

simply visit flipkart. go to computers, laptop accessories, external hard drive price. a few months ago i brought a 500Gb 2.5" HDD for 2.5k. now price of similar HDD is 4k or more. and this will just get worst.

 

[sygeek]

We should start investing in HDDs

 

[axes2t2]

Bad news.

 

[Vyom]

A drop of relief everyone.
Western Digital partially restores Thailand operations - TechSpot News

 

[Skud]

Time to trim the fat. Forget about the price coming back to July-August level anytime soon.

 

[thanseer]

too sad



i' thinking to buy a HDD next month

 

[reniarahim1]

hhmm..was planning to setup my AMD fusion HTPC. will wait for few more months now.

 

[Terabyte]

Hard drive prices recede for first time since Thai floods

 

[axes2t2]

Nice but by how much ??

 

[sujoyp]

Now that seagate took over samsungs HDD business...the news is even worse

 

[The Sorcerer]

...and Western Digital taken over Hitachi.

WD guys pinged me yesterday and bringing an official price of a review I was done and about to put at the day when they were going to announce it and then the floods happened. 9.5mm thick 2.5" 1TB WD Scorpio Blue WD10JPVT is quoted for 10k approx MRP. I think its safe to say that WD is limping- atleast judging purely by how it looks from my end and atleast from notebook drive's POV. Or else WD India wouldn't have been in the position to release a press notification and official price for this.