WD Resumes HDD Production at Just One Factory

[userngalan]

when did the hdd price will drop again?

 

[userngalan]

if they want a safe location from flood.. they should make their factory at the moon.. it is 100% sure flood free!

 

[nezzymighty]

[citation][nom]old_newbie[/nom]+1. Also the Thailand factories weren't churning out hard drives on a 1 for 1 "you buy one, we ship one" ratio. These companies have stock piles of drives that will surely last until the factories are running again. The price gouging is simply exploitation of consumer fear. Case and point, why havent external harddrives (which use the exact same internal drives) risen 150% in price as well?Speculation is truely the mother of all evil.[/citation]

I agree. The other shame too is that it WILL affect (some more than others depending on commodity required) the rest of the PC related suppliers and industries, slowing sales. For example, I wanted purchase a NAS device for Christmas, or build my own WHS, but have postponed now because I won't be able to populate the drive bays as I wanted at a reasonable price. I hope chip manufacturers, motherboard companies, etc.. add pressure to the HDD industries to lower prices.

Who will get affected the most? This will be cool for us to see on the sidelines. AMD says they won't and I think that's because there is excitement behind their products. Despite reviews, e-tailers can't keep their warehouses stocked with their cpus, and I don't think it's just a supply issue, I think their selling like hotcakes. Intel is warning stock holders that their Q4 won't be as high as predicted due to slowing PC sales. And what about the likes of QNAP and Thecus etc. and the rest of the NAS industries? I bet their sales have slowed drastically. Some QNAP devices have dropped $500 bucks on NewEgg.

I wonder when the industries affected the most will start to pressure them to lower their prices?