WD, Seagate Recover From HDD Shipment Shortage

[captaincharisma]

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

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

sorry i am just a tech guy who doesn't meaninglessly waste money on a small speed performance by spending 200+ bucks on a 120GB HDD that in the end can only hold a windows install and a few games.

nice to know you are like the apple fanatics and waste money on everything

 

[unksol]

The Samsung spinpoints are now made by Seagate, ewww.

Yes. very unfortunate. I picked up 1 terabyte 7200 RPM and 1.5 Terabyte 5400 RPM drives for 50-60 bucks in August. they were just so cheap and the best drives I've ever owned couldn't help myself, even the OEM packaging was amazing... very sad to see Samsung sell out.

The competition situation is not good, nor is quality, but prices are dropping and supply and demand, and the need to pay for all the repairs and new equipment/factories simply means they cost more to make right now... then in a paid off factory. there is less conspiracy and more reality then some want to admit.

Hopefully we'll see better quality, density, and pricing as SSDs put pressure on them.

 

[jaber2]

I don't know why so many here hate to hear about SSD and QQ over HD prices, I think its about time you face the future and stop being stuck on mechanical drives that tend to break as you see many examples above, yes the SSD's are more expensive to comprable HD's when it comes to size, but in time when they phase out HD's you'd notice that here and now we had better and faster storage than we ever had before and yet many tended to QQ about it.

 

[captaincharisma]

I don't know why so many here hate to hear about SSD and QQ over HD prices, I think its about time you face the future and stop being stuck on mechanical drives that tend to break as you see many examples above, yes the SSD's are more expensive to comprable HD's when it comes to size, but in time when they phase out HD's you'd notice that here and now we had better and faster storage than we ever had before and yet many tended to QQ about it.

of all the HDD i have owned none of them have failed on me and i run my PC 24/7. i just had an external drive that i have been using for 3 years straight and most of that time as a dedicated PVRdrive fail on me and guess what? i took the hard drive out of enclosure and installed it in my PC and it still runs like a champ and it is a WD green drive to boot. the SSD drives might fail but they can get easily corrupted like history so far has shown. add to the fact they haven't been out in the market long enough yet to see how long they can last

once they get the capacity that magnetic drives have now and for the same price then i will say goodbye to magnetic drives but right now they are still a long ways away from replacing them

 

[techtre2003]

[citation][nom]dtgfghhjh[/nom]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]

Exactly, I don't constantly monitor hard drive availability but I don't ever remember seeing multiple hard drive models out of stock or limited to a quantity purchase during this whole "shortage".