at my place i dont see SSD price increment

Penang already go up almost like 100%. WD Caviar Blue 1TB is RM355 while 2 TB one cost RM650
Darn it. I was just planning to to go out to buy a NAS + 2TB HDD...

HDD price in Penang:

SOS

This post has been edited by owikh84: Nov 2 2011, 05:25 PM

I think most shops going to start cut throat people soon already...
Going to go to Digital Match and check their prices...

At these kind of price range its gonna take 6 months to recover back to old level.

Sorry I didn't follow the whole thread. So don't flame me if I'm repeating the following info.

The flood in Thailand has messed up a lot of stuff particularly on WD HDD. There has been a shortage on WD hdd and other manufacturers are following suit in increasing the pricing

I sent all my customers to lowyat plaza to get hdd last week because my cost was higher than what Czone and Cycom was selling. I think shops there have finally caught wind on the news and upped the prices

its going to take longer than that, WD estimated its going to take at least 6 months for them to get production up and running again assuming the floods doesn't worsen than what was initially planned. By the time they finish the backlogs...Could very well be a year....or before Christmas 2012 if everything goes smoothly.

Seagate on the other hand, just announced that the following quarter will be a bullish market for them

Regarding flood increase price -
Is dis external hdd WD MYBOOK ESSENTIAL usb3.0 2TB - rm399 (from Viewnet as of 1/11/2011) is dis increase price?? If yes what was the price before the increase?

Then just wait for 2013 and buy..

don't buy WD

Price of early October

I heard that in spite of the flooding events, Seagate Hard disk production has been limited by international organization to ensure "fair" business environment. How true is this? If true then this would not only drive hdd prices out of the ceiling but outer space

Do you have a source for that?
It sounds ridiculous

No, I don't. I just heard of it. I don't believe it either but just want to see if anyone is able to confirm that.

Reuters just reported that Seagate is lowering production due to shortage of parts and not the reason above.

whatever crap reason it seems the best idea is to buy used HDD now than new one lol

Luckily I bought my WD 2TB Green few DAYS before the flood for RM250.

HD makers have not been making good profit for many years. That is why they had reduced the warranty from 5 years to 3 years some years ago.

No point for Seagate to increase any production. And I also don't believe they do have any extra free/unused capacity to produce any extra.

Now is a good time to make higher profit on each hard disk.

OMG.... and my external hard disk space is running low....
Going to go grab a new external HDD this few days.... T.T

czone price hdd price list seems to be updated every few days and going up everytime

what i heard is seagate is ramping up & so does another manufacturer (not wd of course, they are 6ft down in water )