WD, Seagate Recover From HDD Shipment Shortage

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Good (even when I know it's partially a lie manipulated by all manufacturers to drive up profit), now take down the prices a notch or two. And improve the quality of your crappy drives as they tend to crash more often than ever.
 
[citation][nom]mrpijey[/nom]Good (even when I know it's partially a lie manipulated by all manufacturers to drive up profit), now take down the prices a notch or two. And improve the quality of your crappy drives as they tend to crash more often than ever.[/citation]

LMAO ok hot shot then who is the better HDD brand sense apparently you have such bad luck with Seagate and WD unlike the rest of us
 
[citation][nom]mrpijey[/nom]Good (even when I know it's partially a lie manipulated by all manufacturers to drive up profit), now take down the prices a notch or two. And improve the quality of your crappy drives as they tend to crash more often than ever.[/citation]
Prices are already falling ~$10-20/month on 2TB drives, it will not be long now before we start seeing prices where we are use to seeing them again.
 
Well therein lies the problem. There used to be a good number of HDD manufacturers (Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, WD, Hitatchi etc..) now it is down to almost 2 (if the most recent merger goes through.)
 
I'll be going for WB, as they have a better rate of failure over Seagate.

I'll also give it another month to let the prices drop before I ditch my 40GB drives for a terabyte. I "tera-bly" need it!
 
essentially, there are two manufactures of standard 3.5 inch drives... seagate and wd. if they collude, they've got us by the balls.
 
Can we say all the eggs in one basket?

I haven't even considered an HDD purchase since I started hearing about this in the news.

Does everyone realize Thailand floods every year? Not like this every year, but there's definitely risk every year. It's like putting your business on the banks of New Orleans. Is that a risk you'd be willing to take? The insurance companies won't?

Definitely seems like a last hurrah for the HDD market. They could charge all the OEMs dependent on them quite a few more bucks as consumers backed off directly purchasing the drives. In the meantime, SSDs become more numerous, the production price becomes lower, and in turn the cost to the consumer decreases. Neither Seagate or WD has become a major player in the SSD space. WD made a half-arsed effort early on with prices well beyond the competition, but you don't see their SSDs for sale anywhere these days.

It's unfortunate because I really trust my WD mechanical drives. I would think they could bring that same quality to the SSD market. Intel has been doing a good job of fulfilling my storage needs since the price of the HDDs skyrocketed. Not as much space as an HDD, but definitely superior performance.
 
don't care, SSD drives are now starting to fall to less than a dollar per GB. even ASUS has made a special SSD adapter to fit right onto a motherboard header next to the CPU and memory that fits a 120GB SSD card slightly bigger than 2 thumbs. why do i want a big clunky NOISY disc drive any more?
if all goes well with the design ASUS came up with, we won't need big clunky noisy drives of any kind any more. i see this bluray bit as a last ditch money sucking scheme by the MPAA and RIAA to keep pushing obsolete technology like cpu/gpu makers with all the various modes and slight speed increases and socket changes.
memory card readers have been around since the early 2000's and yet they are still using discs, .wav and mp3's were the wake up call. youtube is another. we already know who won the battle of disc vs. file media.
720p=96
1080p=128
i haven't d/l or made any file less then 256 since encoders came out, i certainly don't use movies that are less then 1200p with only 8-track 1970's options.
 
I occasionally check the price of a WD drive (WD2002FAEX, 2TB SATA 6GB/s, 64MB cache) at NewEgg as a test. The price is tracked at: http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822136792. This drive just went UP $10, higher than it has been priced since mid December. Now $269. It was as low as $129 before the flood. As low as $199 in March. Perhaps NewEgg need to get the news of the "recovery". There are better prices elsewhere, but NewEgg is a good reference point (or WAS a good reference point).
 


so what? they are still pricier and right now consumers are still stuck with SSD's with a max of 120-200GB. you can make SSD's cheaper than magnetic drives but they are still nothing but a windows partition
 
IMO: WD > Seagate just on the warranty alone.

I own both. I have been through the warranty process of both. I seem to see equal product failures between them. Seagate wants log files from SEATOOLs. They also want users to make use of the spare sector feature in seatools to "fix" hard drives that are going bad before sending them in.

WD, on the other hand, will accept a WDDIAGS error result code in their website (consumer grade, RE edition, etc) and let you choose to do an advanced replacement (give them your CC and they will send you a replacement drive first).

I have used the WD advanced replacement program several times form myself and for corporate use. It has always worked. Since the drives are mechanical, and all drives will eventually fail, guaranteed, I want one with a user-friendly warranty service.

Just my practical approach. It works for me.
 
Is been a long time since I have seen a decent 2TB drive for $79 dollars.
I'm pretty sure that they hit a little lower than that just 3 days before this whole fiasco.

Yes, I still call it a fiasco, because that's what this whole thing has been.

If it wasn't then how did they instantly triple the price on the drives?
Drives that were already on US soil, drives that never got wet?

Now 2TB are just too small for my needs, I will wait a bit longer until at least 4TB are around $100.... or lower. (my real target are 5TB, which we should had already, but with all this fiasco I guess is going to get a bit longer to get them.)
 
Well, when there are only two manufacturers left, it may be that we will newer see as low prices as they used to be... The ssd is coming down so slow, that there is no "need" to make fast drop...
Pity... Seems to be very much alike CPU and GPU situation at this moment. The prices remains the same...
 
I own a computer store i use to buy wd drives last year i bought 30 wd blue and green drives ALL have failed within 3 months.
This year i have bought 30 seagate drives that have gone out in systems not one has come back yet,wd blacks do last longer but blue and green wd drives have really high failure rates.
Also half the laptops we sold had wd blue scorpio's and failed within 3 months wd really needs to look at those drives esp the greens are known to fail due to excessive head parking.
The price should be dropping faster there is no shortage, i can order as many as i want from my supplier so what is taking them so long to put drives back to normal prices i smell collusion here won't be surprised to find wd and seagate working on a price fixing scheme.
 
[citation][nom]spectrewind[/nom]IMO: WD > Seagate just on the warranty alone.I own both. I have been through the warranty process of both. I seem to see equal product failures between them. Seagate wants log files from SEATOOLs. They also want users to make use of the spare sector feature in seatools to "fix" hard drives that are going bad before sending them in.WD, on the other hand, will accept a WDDIAGS error result code in their website (consumer grade, RE edition, etc) and let you choose to do an advanced replacement (give them your CC and they will send you a replacement drive first).I have used the WD advanced replacement program several times form myself and for corporate use. It has always worked. Since the drives are mechanical, and all drives will eventually fail, guaranteed, I want one with a user-friendly warranty service.Just my practical approach. It works for me.[/citation]

i had 6 hdd failures with seagate 1.5tb drives, and i had the easy warranty replace without any kind of code needing to give them. this was about a year ago now, but their return is excellent at least in my experience, and the person i talked to sounded like they were in america.

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]Is been a long time since I have seen a decent 2TB drive for $79 dollars.I'm pretty sure that they hit a little lower than that just 3 days before this whole fiasco.Yes, I still call it a fiasco, because that's what this whole thing has been.If it wasn't then how did they instantly triple the price on the drives?Drives that were already on US soil, drives that never got wet?Now 2TB are just too small for my needs, I will wait a bit longer until at least 4TB are around $100.... or lower. (my real target are 5TB, which we should had already, but with all this fiasco I guess is going to get a bit longer to get them.)[/citation]

im waiting on a 4tb hitting 200

 
I'll believe the shortages are over when HDD prices drop to what they were back in September of last year. Most of the HDD's I'm tracking on camelegg.com are still about 20-25% higher with some few still carrying a 40-50% premium.
 
[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]LOL win what? 200GB SSD vs. 3TB magnetic driveFAIL[/citation]

Yes the only valid comparison is storage space. obviously.
/sarcasm

Learn your tech. I don't know why you bothered commenting.
 
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