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Hard-drive shortage predicted
THE SUPPLY of 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) for use in desktops and servers has started to dry up.
It seems that drive makers have been caught on the hop by a sudden increase in demand for 3.5-inch hard drives. According to Digitimes, suppliers in Taiwan had predicted there would be an increase in demand for the 2.5-inch drives used in notebooks.
Western Digital (WD), Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba and Samsung Electronics increased production of 2.5-inch HDDs used in notebooks due to short supply arising from fast-growing demand for notebooks in 2009.
However none of them predicted that the desktop market would start to pick up too. WD and Seagate are currently the two main suppliers of 3.5-inch HDDs with a combined global market share of over 80 per cent.
Since they were busy concentrating on notebooks they didn't increase production for desktops.
Analysts are now predicting that there will be a shortage of desktop hard drives into the middle of next year. This could push the prices up. µ
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I think the increasing demand stems from various forms of file servers.
- Corporate servers.
- Home NAS.
- Home user's external HDDs, more or less performing the function of a NAS.
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If you need a drive that bad. shove a 2.5 in your rig. It will get you by especially if its for storage. When drives come on sale I usually buy two so I'm not caught short.
Totally speculations to bring the price up?
Such a capitalist
Sounds like they are not happy with the now reasonable prices and need a way to increase them somehow, or are they trying to make their ssd's look more attractive and affordable to consumers.
Lots of scare stories about shortages - memory, drives, mince pies....
All trying to panic you, the consumer into buying now!
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Hi, does anyone knows if these Company just decided to reduce production so they could manipulate the market, as Nvidia and ATI tried to do on the graphics side! Is there any kind system of controlling these case of manipulation?? iF NOT THEY COULD all together try to manipulate shortage production in order to raise price artificially!!!
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