Hard drive costs - what are they like now

with so few players remaining in the market, it is very much possible that they might collaborate together and stretch the shit for even longer. my hardware dealer told me that the rumors in the market are that the warranty on hard drives might come down to 1-3 months. as if one year was not bad enough.

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160GB is baby and cant swallow 4-5 big junk food :lol:

160GB is nothing these days unless you are talking about SSDs 🙂

HDD prices would drop in the 1st week of may 2012 🙂


lol....... tarik par tarik !

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with so few players remaining in the market, it is very much possible that they might collaborate together and stretch the shit for even longer.

my hardware dealer told me that the rumors in the market are that the warranty on hard drives might come down to 1-3 months. as if one year was not bad enough.


well they have been making crap HDD i have had 2 HDD crashes and another external which almost crashed too...but less than 1yr warranty is just gonna suck!

why there so few players in HDD market?? they feel like they can do whatever they like

I purchased 2 x 2TB drives of Seagate ST2000DL003 for Rs. 3900 each. That was sometime in August last year. Now the same drive costs exactly double. But still better than triple the cost it was 2 months back. A dealer at Lamington road told me that it's nearly impossible for prices to return to their pre-floods levels this year. The reason is simple. Right now, the hard disk manufacturers are fulfilling their main orders from OEMs like Dell, Sony, Samsung, Acer, etc. Because that's where the real profit lies. The market of bare drives is insignificant to these manufacturers. So there will always be an artificial short supply of bare drives and hence the high prices will continue to remain high.