Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives

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  1. Posts : 4,161
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       #170

    I think it's more component shortage than drive production itself. I was reading that not only the drive factories were flooded but also the primary disk drive motor manufacturer was flooded. The manufacturer supplies 70% of the disk drive motors Worldwide. That may be where I got confused on drive production in Thailand.

    With the world's top four HDD manufacturers operating in Thailand, the country handles 60% of the global production. Japan's Nidec, which supplies 70% of the world's spindle motors for HDDs, also operates here.
    Source: Bangkok Post
    Last edited by carwiz; 04 Dec 2011 at 19:45.
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       #171

    carwiz said:
    I think it's more component shortage than drive production itself. I was reading that not only the drive factories were flooded but also the primary disk drive motor manufacturer was flooded. The manufacturer supplies 70% of the disk drive motors Worldwide. That may be where I got confused on drive production in Thailand.

    With the world's top four HDD manufacturers operating in Thailand, the country handles 60% of the global production. Japan's Nidec, which supplies 70% of the world's spindle motors for HDDs, also operates here.
    Source: Bangkok Post
    Hum that makes a bit more sense carwiz
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  3. Posts : 6,668
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       #172

    ...and this is one of the problems we can expect for moving all the industrial / factory work out of america.

    ...just a bad principle all around really you don't want all your 'eggs' in one 'basket' like that for this very reason.

    If something goes wrong everything is borked.
    Having all of one kind of manufacturing in one place makes about as much sense as stacking a bunch of nuclear reactors on top of each other in a zone prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.

    p.s. component shortages are actually likely to happen at some point down the road. It's part of the reason I suggest people find out where their local electronics recycling center is, instead of tossing old computers, tvs, and things like that. Especially any kind of memory there are base components that can be easily recovered from it and more supply just means better prices at the end of the day.
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  5. Posts : 1,965
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       #174

    WD Stock


    Their stock jumped up 10% one day last week.
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  6. Posts : 6,668
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       #175

    If samsung keep dropping the prices on the ssd's much more they may actually start becoming an option for more people.
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  7. Posts : 5,941
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       #176

    Hi all
    Lat Saturday --bought 2 X 1 TB 2.5 inch LAPTOP HDD's (didn't even know they made 1TB laptop 2.5 inch disks!! ) with 2 X external enclosures -- whole package 265 EUR (inc tax). OK the HDD's are only 5400 RPM but I'm using these for music / video streaming via a server -- the USB2 connection is faste enough for these.

    Actually the 2.5 inch disks are a lot more robust than the standard internal HDD's that are used in work stations / desktops as they are designed for laptops which will get a lot more rough treatment than a standard desktop.

    I can assure you that a laptop on an Oil Rig gets a fair bit of abuse --and still works !!!!.

    If you need extra storage space still at cheap prices look at the option of Laptop drives and fit them into standard enclosures so they behave just like external HDD's. There's plenty of these around -- and also if you are getting a new laptop why not remove the old HDD as well --it's always useful for keeping backup images, music, photos, scanned documents etc on.

    Cheers

    jimbo
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  8. Posts : 293
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       #177

    Maguscreed said:
    ...and this is one of the problems we can expect for moving all the industrial / factory work out of america.

    ...just a bad principle all around really you don't want all your 'eggs' in one 'basket' like that for this very reason.

    If something goes wrong everything is borked.
    Having all of one kind of manufacturing in one place makes about as much sense as stacking a bunch of nuclear reactors on top of each other in a zone prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.

    p.s. component shortages are actually likely to happen at some point down the road. It's part of the reason I suggest people find out where their local electronics recycling center is, instead of tossing old computers, tvs, and things like that. Especially any kind of memory there are base components that can be easily recovered from it and more supply just means better prices at the end of the day.
    Wow you figured this out easily yet top CEOs and related execs paid a king's ransom many times over couldn't..WHAT in the HECK are they paying these people running the companies for?
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  9. Posts : 9,537
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       #178

    legacy7955 said:
    Maguscreed said:
    ...and this is one of the problems we can expect for moving all the industrial / factory work out of america.

    ...just a bad principle all around really you don't want all your 'eggs' in one 'basket' like that for this very reason.

    If something goes wrong everything is borked.
    Having all of one kind of manufacturing in one place makes about as much sense as stacking a bunch of nuclear reactors on top of each other in a zone prone to earthquakes and tsunamis.

    p.s. component shortages are actually likely to happen at some point down the road. It's part of the reason I suggest people find out where their local electronics recycling center is, instead of tossing old computers, tvs, and things like that. Especially any kind of memory there are base components that can be easily recovered from it and more supply just means better prices at the end of the day.
    Wow you figured this out easily yet top CEOs and related execs paid a king's ransom many times over couldn't..WHAT in the HECK are they paying these people running the companies for?
    They not only run companies but the same likes run our Countries.
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  10. Posts : 4,161
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       #179

    legacy7955 said:
    Wow you figured this out easily yet top CEOs and related execs paid a king's ransom many times over couldn't..WHAT in the HECK are they paying these people running the companies for?
    Back when I was a "suit" we made five-year plans in business. Today, the plan is annual but split into quarters. The prime objective is to make money. That's what businesses do. It's the CEO's job to make money for the investors. If you can pay someone else to make parts cheaper than you can make them, it adds black to the bottom line. If you're the maker of the parts and can do it in high volume, the parts are cheaper to make. It's called economies of scale. The more you make, the less it costs for each part. If the parts are made by 100 factories scattered all over, you loose the benefit of economies of scale and the price goes up and profit goes down.
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