Black Friday & SSDs

[thestrangebrew1]

Anyone remember if black friday had great deals on SSDs last year. I keep seeing all these great deals and hate feeling I need to pull the trigger when BF is around the corner and I could hold out for another month or so.

 

[n0x1ous]

depending on what capacity you are looking for, there are such good deals right now that waiting may be pointless.

 

[Zap]

I recall deals being quite lackluster. Rather, they were pretty good, but IIRC not a lot better than any normal hot deal. It would be as if all the hot deals happened all at once.

The better deals seem to be on consumer electronics, where normally there's a bigger margin.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

depending on what capacity you are looking for, there are such good deals right now that waiting may be pointless.

Yea I'm basically looking for a 128gb drive for my wife's laptop. Been holding off purchasing 1 because I'm waiting to put w8 on it as well, but the deals recently have been stellar. I guess I'll be making a purchase on the next hot deal if I see one for that capacity or more.

 

[Skott]

Last year they had the flooded factories still out of production so there was not much as far as deals with hdds or SSDs. All the great deals ended when the flood hit as I recall. I would guess this year we should see some better deals. How low though is hard to say. Hdd prices still havent returned to what they were pre flood. Manufacturers are trying to keep profits up this year it seems. I'm guessing that will hold true for SSDs too. Just my speculation on the subject.

 

[blastingcap]

Last year they had the flooded factories still out of production so there was not much as far as deals with hdds or SSDs. All the great deals ended when the flood hit as I recall. I would guess this year we should see some better deals. How low though is hard to say. Hdd prices still havent returned to what they were pre flood. Manufacturers are trying to keep profits up this year it seems. I'm guessing that will hold true for SSDs too. Just my speculation on the subject.

Good point about the HDD situation; that flood seems like an eternity ago to me.

Toshiba already tried cutting production to prop up prices, threatening 30% NAND production cuts or something like that, but it didn't work and they have since done an about-face. I would expect SSD prices to keep falling or to remain stagnant from now through Black Friday. Mobile eats up a lot of production though, so depending on how phones and tablets do, things can change quickly.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/25738/rumor_tt_toshiba_cuts_nand_prices_20_to_25_today/index.html