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expired Posted by DJ3xclusive • Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021 7:15 AM
WD Elements 8TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive Black for $129.99 + FS
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im still kinda bumbed though, i thought by 2020 we would have 100TB for $100
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We're still in times of Covid (and it may go longer than we'd like worldwide) and it does affect production lines. Usually drives the price up some.
These are not HGST Helium drives anymore. Usually stabilizes or drives the price a little lower.
Technology has advanced to the point that manufacturing these have a lower and lower failure rate and may require fewer platters and less hardware. Usually drives the price down a little lower.
A ton of people get stimulus checks which is like the governments of the world just printing money making currency worth... less - because they're printing/adding more currency thatn they're removing. Tends to drive the price up some.
So, while I'll never consider myself an expert but have a general understanding of economics, this is basically what these will cost for a while. Maybe a little better deal if nothing else rotten happens to the world around Black Friday... or maybe we all get cost of living raises and these prices are less of a problem.
We're still in times of Covid (and it may go longer than we'd like worldwide) and it does affect production lines. Usually drives the price up some.
These are not HGST Helium drives anymore. Usually stabilizes or drives the price a little lower.
Technology has advanced to the point that manufacturing these have a lower and lower failure rate and may require fewer platters and less hardware. Usually drives the price down a little lower.
A ton of people get stimulus checks which is like the governments of the world just printing money making currency worth... less - because they're printing/adding more currency thatn they're removing. Tends to drive the price up some.
So, while I'll never consider myself an expert but have a general understanding of economics, this is basically what these will cost for a while. Maybe a little better deal if nothing else rotten happens to the world around Black Friday... or maybe we all get cost of living raises and these prices are less of a problem.
You can
1. raise prices
2. cut costs
3. focus on strengths at the expense of sales points you can't compete on anymore
4. shift to markets where clientele aren't as price sensitive and margins are fatter.
1 is why prices have stopped dropping.
2 is why they tried to sneak SMR in.
3 is another reason why SMR is coming - HD's can't compete on performance vs SSD's, so SMR's performance-for-capacity tradeoff makes more sense
4 means a greater focus on enterprise/datacenter.
For platter drives, 1 and 2 are what we're seeing the most, 3 is likely.
4 might be happening, I don't know. That one is much more visible in digital cameras - smartphones have wiped out the consumer section, so Canon, Nikon, Panasonic etc. are moving upmarket, where high-budget professionals and amateurs with $ still like to spend $$$$.
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