High HDD Prices Result in Record Sales at Seagate

[rooket]

Now someone explain why Seagate can't use the extra funds to increase QC on their drives. I have brand new seagate drives fail on me all the time and I cannot recommend this brand to anyone.

Unfortunately my new laptop shipped with a Seagate 750GB drive in it. When prices drop I'm going to gut that out and replace it with a WD just to have peace of mind. Sure WD isn't perfect but at least it isn't a friggin Seagate!

I have been working IT for years now and I have had LOTS of seagate drives fail ever since 7200.11. 7200.9 and 7200.10 drives were fine. Now even their LP drives are failing on me. At least I'm not the one doing the ordering though so I have job security 😀

 

[rooket]

I haven't bought a single HDD since the price hikes occurred and I have been needing another one for sometime now. I have the money but I refuse to pay at such a hike in prices. Now that I have seen this I am glad that I have not, records profits at these current prices will only encourage the price to stay up.

Come to think of it, same with me. The last drives I bought were 2TB Hitachi and I used each of them once and put them back inside their original shipping cartons. I'm sure they still work. If they were seagate pre or post flood, I'm sure at least one of them would be dead from sitting unpowered.

 

[f-14]

60gb ocz agility 3 SSD is $40 at microcenter.
if prices keep falling like this HDD won't be gettign cheaper because they will be being made even less due to the price of SSD's kick their arse per GB.

 

[maqsabre]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Artificial? Did they MAKE the floods ?[/citation]
floods hit thailand a long time back
but these manufacturers, distributors and the people involved in hard-drive industry are still creating shortage deliberately,
hence an artificial scarcity

 

[Guest]

Usually I have bought few HDD per year. From Nov 2011 I have bought 1 (one).
I am deleting obsolete files on old drives and I will survive next months.

Before high prices I was more lazy ;-)