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hardrive prices are in freefall

im not concerned with the manus for any falling price...

The manus are there for its customers... not the other way around...

if the only reason you go into business is to make money, your in it for the wrong reason.
 
Are the firmware issues with the Seagates completely resolved? I don't really "need" a 1.5TB drive, but whatever. 😛
 
Originally posted by: sao123
im not concerned with the manus for any falling price...

The manus are there for its customers... not the other way around...

if the only reason you go into business is to make money, your in it for the wrong reason.
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wait, what? The reason you go into business is to make money. That's what drives companies to invest inthemselves and better a product, because if they don't someone else will and that person will take their sale and their money.
Business is all about the money.

As far as MFGers loosing money, they aren't the ones giving a coupon code, Dell is. Dell is loosing money on dealslike this hoping you'll make the difference up by buying something else with your hard drive order.
 
Poor, poor manufacturers.

They've held the market with inflated prices for SO-O-O-O long, not, price deflation is hitting them. maybe it's time to start cutting salaries across the board...especially for the spoiled engineers who have helped drive up the costs due to high wages... 😛

I gotta admit, HDD prices are dirt cheap lately. I don't need to upgrade from my 250, but if I did...

Hell, at $80 for a1TB, that's cheaper than my first 4 Gb drive in the mid 90's...and WAAAAAAY cheaper than my first 20 mb drive in the late 80's or early 90's....
 
I already have a 640, a 500, and a 250. Plus a 640 external.

Getting another one, while tempting, would be overkill 😛
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Poor, poor manufacturers.

They've held the market with inflated prices for SO-O-O-O long, not, price deflation is hitting them. maybe it's time to start cutting salaries across the board...especially for the spoiled engineers who have helped drive up the costs due to high wages... 😛

I gotta admit, HDD prices are dirt cheap lately. I don't need to upgrade from my 250, but if I did...

Hell, at $80 for a1TB, that's cheaper than my first 4 Gb drive in the mid 90's...and WAAAAAAY cheaper than my first 20 mb drive in the late 80's or early 90's....
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I never understand the point of these comparisons. Things continually get cheaper because of research and experience with manufacturing, not because they could make 1TB hard drives 15 years ago and decided to make 4GB drives instead.
 
are they really bleeding money?
they do sell the things to other companies for cheap after all, xbox's and such got hd's now because they didn't cost much. basic design of many components have remained the same for years. so how much does it really cost to build a drive?
anyways as for cheap..rams the cheap stuff these days.
 
I've wondered. Does it cost more money to make say a 250gb hard drive than a 160gb hard drive? I wouldn't think so? The materials are the same aren't they? So the price is just artificial anyway?

I know the number of platters etc would change the cost, but I'm talking about hard drives with the same platters but different capacity.
 
Originally posted by: sao123

if the only reason you go into business is to make money, your in it for the wrong reason.
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I'm sorry, but that comment made me laugh coffee out my nose.

The ONLY reason to be in business is to make money. If you're a publicly traded company with common stock, your shareholders expect you to make money....and you are pretty much required to maximize your profits for the shareholders.

It doesn't matter what good is made or the service provided, it's being done solely to make money. Any other motivation, if there is one, is secondary and a very distant second at that.

Notice, there has been no mention of non-profits.....they're there not to make money, but that's a completely different animal anyway.
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
Lemme know when you can say the same about SSDs
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Don't know about free fall, but there are deals to be had. 16, 32 and 64GB SSD drives (Imation drives) at Marshalls for $19.99 on clearance + tax. Extreme YMMV but a few have been found for that price.
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
I've wondered. Does it cost more money to make say a 250gb hard drive than a 160gb hard drive? I wouldn't think so? The materials are the same aren't they? So the price is just artificial anyway?

I know the number of platters etc would change the cost, but I'm talking about hard drives with the same platters but different capacity.
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Is it just another platter, or it density on the same platters? Even if the manufacturing costs is only marginally different for the additional variable cost of another platter, you still have to figure in profit margin, costs of marketing, and cost of research, among others. If it is density, there's also cost of research and price premium.

You charge what the market will bear for costs, simply supply and demand. Not a dollar more or a dollar less.
 
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