Skyrocketing price of mechanical hard drives

[Dave76]

Sure, it's an easy one
In the Start search box: msconfig
Boot tab
Check the box: No GUI boot

 

[badger906]

I love the exchange rate and customs charges lol. My 120gb corsair force 3 cost me £150, that's like $280! Was you could get half decent SSD's in the uk for £60 ($100)..

 

[Britton30]

As you can see by my specs now I just finished my new build I got a 128 gig ssd that came with batman arkham city for 100 dollars.
They wanted 89 for a slow spinning 250gig mechanical in the same store.

Where did you buy that dream drive?

 

[carwiz]

I turned off the windows logo animation because it wasn't even finishing before the system was booted.

Slap a TV tunner card in your machine. That will slow the boot down 20-30 seconds.

 

[Maguscreed]

As you can see by my specs now I just finished my new build I got a 128 gig ssd that came with batman arkham city for 100 dollars.
They wanted 89 for a slow spinning 250gig mechanical in the same store.

Where did you buy that dream drive?

Bought motherboard, drive, case, and ram all at microcenter.

I've actually just discovered something too.
I was apparently charged for the 64gig drive but got the 128 gig drive.
So I didn't actually pay for the right drive.

Luckily everything seems to work and I'll not have to return anything or it'd be a problem explaining it.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

The recent price hike is mostly due to the flooding in Thailand where even industrial parks have been inundated and production stopped. Apparently 15% of all hard drives are manufactured there.

Yeah we heard this too Franz but how come most of what we get is made in China - I don't remember seeing ever one made in Thailand. Plus 15% of the market is a drop in the ocean when you think about it.

 

[Maguscreed]

Made in china assembled in Thailand is more like it.

 

[seekermeister]

I don't know where the components originated, but I do have drives made in Thailand, but it doesn't really matter where a drive is made, because a shortage in one area is supplemented from another.

 

[Maguscreed]

I don't know where the components originated, but I do have drives made in Thailand, but it doesn't really matter where a drive is made, because a shortage in one area is supplemented from another.

Shipping costs customs and tariffs all come into play too.
These are costs that the average consumer doesn't generally think about.

Very often things are made in a specific place because of customs regulations and shipping costs.

...something to think about.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yeah I suppose you are right but I reckon they still make / produce / manufacture call it what you will a vast majority of the devices in China.

Like the factory in China that has different lines for different companies alongside each other that was quoted by a visiting US businessman who stated that Nokia was alongside Panasonic alongside Sony etc etc in one gigantic hanger like building.

Myself I think the excuse of Thailand is just another way of getting more out of us.

 

[carwiz]

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

 

[ICIT2LOL]

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

 

[Maguscreed]

...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.

 

[BrightBlessings]

Western Digital begins the long road to flood recovery - News - PC & Tech Authority

 

[HammerHead]

WD Stock

Their stock jumped up 10% one day last week.

 

[Maguscreed]

If samsung keep dropping the prices on the ssd's much more they may actually start becoming an option for more people.

 

[jimbo45]

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

 

[legacy7955]

...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?

 

[The Howling Wolves]

...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.

 

[carwiz]

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.