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Guru3D.com » News » Average Selling Prices of Hard Disk Drives after Floods

Average Selling Prices of Hard Disk Drives after Floods

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/25/2013 02:15 PM | source: | 29 comment(s)
Average Selling Prices of Hard Disk Drives after Floods

Over at Xbitlabs they compiled this great little plotted chart showing how incredibly slow average selling prices of HDDS are dropping back to the “pre-flood” levels, but today’s ASP are on the pre-economic crisis levels. average selling pBased on the recent financial results of Seagate Technologies and Western Digital Corp., average selling price of a hard disk drive in Q3 – Q4 of calendar 2012 (Q1 – Q2 of fiscal 2013) decreased to $62 - $63 per unit, which is considerably higher than $45 - $55 ahead of the flood in Thailand in 2010. 

Prices are gradually returning to their historical levels due to general dynamics of the personal computers market. It remains to be seen whether the ASPs will get back to the “pre-flood” levels, but today’s ASP are on the pre-economic crisis levels.

But is in line with ASPs between $53 and $62 in Q3 2008 (Q2 FY2009), ahead of a major drop of demand for PCs in the following quarters due to global economic. Obviously, just average selling prices of hard disk drives cannot fully describe the market situation by themselves since they are affected by multiple factors, such a product mix, seasonality, product performance and so on. Nonetheless, it is evident that the HDD ASPs peaked in Q4 2011 (Q2 FY2012) and were on the decline trend since then.

At present WD is trying to sustain average selling prices on certain levels and avoid further drops since it will negatively affect its margins and competitive abilities in the long-term. The company’s new chief executive said that it limits production levels in order not to produce excessive inventory and then sell it at low prices. At the same time, Western Digital is looking forward to make its business and products more economically efficient, which should help the company to survive even with soft market demand and low ASPs. “We obviously have more capacity than what we are producing because we are throttling it to what we see as demand. But we are taking actions to reset our capacity potential to a more appropriate level given what we view the secular changes in terms of the overall demand profile for the industry. Not that we do not expect to see growth, but not at the same rates than what we have historically done. […] There are multiple opportunities that we have as an organization to continue to improve our cost structure,” said Stephen Milligan, chief executive officer of WD.



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Corrupt^
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#4511277 Posted on: 01/27/2013 04:46 AM
It's not fake, but they did take advantage afterwards.

d_mouse
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#4511297 Posted on: 01/27/2013 05:40 AM
We have an application server here with 6 SSDs in it that has been running non-stop serving about 300 people all day every day for years, as well as taking in EDI, satellite information, and a bunch of other stuff. Not a single drive failure.


That's about the same sort of usage our app servers at work get and the SSD's haven't missed a beat.

Our DB server on the other hand is running HDD's and has terrible performance / table locking issues and has had two drive failures in the past 12 months.

I'm pushing for our DB server to get a full hardware upgrade including to SSD's as I'm getting sick of things going wrong & the crappy performance.

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#4511311 Posted on: 01/27/2013 06:52 AM
HDD Crisis Was Fake: Seagate and Western Digital Post Big Profits

http://news.softpedia.com/news/HDD-Crisis-Was-Fake-Seagate-and-Western-Digital-Post-Big-Profits-266676.shtml

http://www.onebitzero.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Thailand-flood-Western-Digital-Factory.jpg

Faked!

"Crisis"!

I mean, it's not like there was really a ****ing catastrophic flood that destroyed factories full of equipment used to make HDD or displaced millions of people (including the workers, you know). None of this REALLY happened. Or, I mean, maybe it did, but they were probably back to work in a week. A month at most. These are huge corporations! They have the money and insurance to get back to work.

The article you linked was written by an idiot. I won't say anything about you, but going around and linking it to make a stupid point is a stupid thing to do. You can sit around and debate the merits of capitalism, or how much you hate supply and demand, but the flood and the effects were a very real thing. Factories really did fill with water, employees really were displaced, hard drive shipments really did drop.

It's delusion, stupidity, and arrogance that let someone put "quotes" around the word crisis when speaking about a catastrophe that killed hundreds, displaced millions, and cost billions.

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#4511402 Posted on: 01/27/2013 01:33 PM
It did happen, but they recovered much faster than they said they did.

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#4511406 Posted on: 01/27/2013 01:46 PM
It did happen, but they recovered much faster than they said they did.

If demand for drives had dropped so would prices.
Its basic economics dude.

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