Western Digital Regains HDD Market Lead in Q2

[Guest]

Following Seagate, Western Digital has apparently recovered from the impact of the Thailand flood as well. As of Q2, the company has become the leading hard drive maker again.

Western Digital Regains HDD Market Lead in Q2 : Read more

 

[ilysaml]

So, WTF is wrong with HDD prices nowadays? And I remember that Toms posted news that it will recover in early 2014, now it says it has already recovered.

 

[Pennanen]

[citation][nom]ilysaml[/nom]So, WTF is wrong with HDD prices nowadays? And I remember that Toms posted news that it will recover in early 2014, now it says it has already recovered.[/citation]
Price fixing happened

 

[computermania]

WD would not have lost the lead in the first place if not for the Thailand flood.

 

[DRosencraft]

[citation][nom]ilysaml[/nom]So, WTF is wrong with HDD prices nowadays? And I remember that Toms posted news that it will recover in early 2014, now it says it has already recovered.[/citation]

The article says that WD's production has recovered, not prices. Seagate never had a production problem in the traditional sense - they simply had to pick up the slack in the market left by WD. It'll take a while for prices to return to where they used to be because the supply deficit in the market has to even out, and then the previous oversupply builds up again (provided a traditional cycle persists).

 

[ahnilated]

Picking up the shipments and shipping quality products is another story. I have had 5/8 of my WD drives fail within the first 6 months. That should really put a company out of business imho.

 

[kristi_metal]

“Western Digital lost its No. 1 unit shipment ranking to Seagate in the fourth quarter of 2012 after flooding in Thailand damaged its HDD manufacturing facility,”

I think it should be "in the fourth quarter of 2011", we are not yet in the 4th quarter of 2012

 

[sheepsnowadays]

HDD's are still too overpriced. I remember buying my 500GB 7200rpm WD Black for $49.99 last year. I can only dream of buying another one near this price.

 

[pharoahhalfdead]

[citation][nom]kristi_metal[/nom]“Western Digital lost its No. 1 unit shipment ranking to Seagate in the fourth quarter of 2012 after flooding in Thailand damaged its HDD manufacturing facility,”I think it should be "in the fourth quarter of 2011", we are not yet in the 4th quarter of 2012[/citation]

Haha, you beat beat me. I was confused about the "fourth quarter" comment as well.

 

[Guest]

500GB disks are not going to be 49.99 anymore. Its the 2-3TB disks that are starting to hit the sweet spot again.

 

[drwho1]

[citation][nom]sheepsnowadays[/nom]HDD's are still too overpriced. I remember buying my 500GB 7200rpm WD Black for $49.99 last year. I can only dream of buying another one near this price.[/citation]

Pffft, I remember 2TB hard drives for $79 dollars just a few days before this fiasco.

 

[tomfreak]

NO buy HDD until they return to pre-flood price level

 

[lpedraja2002]

Dang things are still way too expensive. The last Hard Drive I bought was a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB for like $70 on ebay.

 

[madjimms]

Used to be able to get 2x1TB for RAID @ less than $100. :-(

 

[chewy1963]

[citation][nom]kristi_metal[/nom]“Western Digital lost its No. 1 unit shipment ranking to Seagate in the fourth quarter of 2012 after flooding in Thailand damaged its HDD manufacturing facility,”I think it should be "in the fourth quarter of 2011", we are not yet in the 4th quarter of 2012[/citation]

Is it asking too much for these articles to be proofread? I mean isn't Wolfgang supposed to be a 'professional journalist'?

 

[alidan]

give me a 4tb at 200$ and i will bite... they are getting close... so deliciously close.

 

[pencilcat]

Q4 2012 for WD's financial year may or may not align with Q4 2012 of the regular calendar year. As far as I am aware, the article is correct in this case.

 

[flank21]

good, now they can start lowering the prices of hard drives

 

[rb420]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]give me a 4tb at 200$ and i will bite... they are getting close... so deliciously close.[/citation]

western digital 3tb is available locally here for $150. on par with your $50/tb

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]rb420[/nom]western digital 3tb is available locally here for $150. on par with your $50/tb[/citation]

i need the 4tb so i can replace all 5 hdds i have in use currently, and have some left over space.

still though, its nice to know that other hdds are getting lower in price.

 

[outlw6669]

Great, now just release your 4TB Green drives so I can finally upgrade my server >.

 

[TeraMedia]

WD prices are definitely falling. The RE4 2TB has fallen from $329 to $289 to $249 to $219 over the course of the past 4-6 months. And it doesn't look like they've bottomed out yet either, since the price cut frequency hasn't dropped off.