HDD Prices

Seagate even increased their prices despite their factories not getting flooded. I'd expect prices to remain higher until the manufacturers recover the cost of repairing their factories as well as additional labour costs incurred to increase production to catch up with demand.

Some sellers do still count on the expected ignorance of South Africans to overcharge. Still to this day I'll encounter someone trying to justify their exorbitant local price with excuses about import duties. Unfortunately for them I can just pull the import duties documents from SARS and quickly see they're full of it.

Wyzak said:
The local suppliers will keep their prices intact until they have sold all of the high priced hardware. Only once their purchase price drop will they consider lowering their prices. Hopefully this spike in HDD prices will be enough to win over the SSD argument, and allow SSD to reach critical mass.
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My suppliers only put up their prices when they brought in new stock, so I expect the prices to drop again once they get stock at a lower price. SSDs unfortunately remain a huge premium over a standard hard drive.

Tchnlgydude said:
From what i've noticed, I see that WD HDD's did not go up that much. Or the supplier I use, bought a large quantity of HDD's before the problem started
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Your supplier must have old stock.
 
kaytel said:
Seagate even increased their prices despite their factories not getting flooded. I'd expect prices to remain higher until the manufacturers recover the cost of repairing their factories as well as additional labour costs incurred to increase production to catch up with demand.

Some sellers do still count on the expected ignorance of South Africans to overcharge. Still to this day I'll encounter someone trying to justify their exorbitant local price with excuses about import duties. Unfortunately for them I can just pull the import duties documents from SARS and quickly see they're full of it.


My suppliers only put up their prices when they brought in new stock, so I expect the prices to drop again once they get stock at a lower price. SSDs unfortunately remain a huge premium over a standard hard drive.


Your supplier must have old stock.
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Seagate's increase is due to their distribution network and supply chain being affected. So their price increase is less that the other manufacturers, but still valid.
 
March seems to be the magic month, surely they should sell it at an average cost with time the price should come back down to normal?
 
I saw at another supplier yesterday (Rectron), that I can still pick up these drives for about the same price as before. Will be getting a 2TB there.
 
Well lucky for me 2 of my HDD is still below 30%. So I think I'm still in the safe zone for now. If you shop around well, you should still find decently priced drives
 
I wonder how long they're gonna have the FLOODED excuse going for, really, how many vendors does it actually effect. there certainly isnt just one factory supplying the entire planet.....sheesh any excuse to make more money these days. . . I'm starting to see the point of the Ocupy Wallstreet thing
 
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