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WD Caviar Black prices

mooncancook

mooncancook

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I just found my box for 2TB WD Caviar Black HDD that I purchased exactly two years ago and the price was marked $159. I also just ordered another Caviar Black 2TB last week for my new built for $159. The price has not changed in two years. The price of SSD is dropping pretty quickly, why hasn't the price of mechanical HDD such as the Caviar Black been keeping up with SSD price?
 
I'm guessing it's because the prices of SSDs are so much higher than regular drives that they don't need to change the regular drive prices for some time. Supply and demand could be a factor as well.
 
same price same tech (500GB platters)
I've moved on to seagate for storage (double the platter density at 7200rpm), and SSDs for booting/os.
It's a shame WD has essentially abandoned their black series.
 
The only way Thailand floods are responsible for high prices is they showed hard drive manufacturers that people were still buying hard drives at inflated prices so they're keeping the prices high.

Besides, the bigger reason is that there are only two manufacturers left - Seagate and WD. It's a duopoly and it's working great for them - they have no reason to lower the prices. Seagate has been making record profits for the last couple of years thanks to that.
 
fleshconsumed said:
Besides, the bigger reason is that there are only two manufacturers left - Seagate and WD. It's a duopoly and it's working great for them - they have no reason to lower the prices. Seagate has been making record profits for the last couple of years thanks to that.
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Pretty much this.
Only two big players left in the HD business, and they have no incentive to have lower prices.
The only way they will lower prices back to pre-flood prices would be if NAND becomes really, really cheap.
They the HD prices will fall like a rock.

Another thing they have done, is lower the warranty drastically. Blacks still have 5 years, but seagate's drives are usually two years or less now, that means, they are basically throw-away drives.


OP, http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16822136792 Lowest it has been is $130 for that HD.
 
I see. I was assuming falling SSD prices would lower the demand for mechanical HDDs, putting pressure on mechanical HDD manufacturer to reduce price. Looks like that's not the case.
 
mooncancook said:
I see. I was assuming falling SSD prices would lower the demand for mechanical HDDs, putting pressure on mechanical HDD manufacturer to reduce price. Looks like that's not the case.
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SSDs have long outpaced hard drives in speed. No one is buying hard drives for that. Capacity and price are what matters. Until you see SSDs approach pricing/GB within a factor of 2 or 3, hard drives will continue to occupy their niche.
 
All my SSDs (6 of them) are still backed up to regular hard drives on my Home Server (with the backup folders duplicated), so there is still a need for hard drives out there. I'm lucky as I can wait for the a good sale and get hard drives at a good price. The stagnation in prices is annoying.
 
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