[mythtv-users] Hard Disk Prices -- What Happened?

[Dean Collins]

My concern is how much "failure" are we going to see out of current batch of drives etc.

If you can I'd hold off for 6 months or so to let faulty "post manufacture" drives that are damaged and pre manufacture "parts" to flush out of the system.

 
Cheers,
Dean
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Eric Sharkey
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:00 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Disk Prices -- What Happened?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 15:30 -0400, James Hall wrote:
>> Not so much cashing in as a lot of production capacity is down, so
>> there's less of a supply but demand is unaffected, driving the prices
>> up. It's econ 101 really.
>
> Yes.  That's called "cashing in".  Those $140 hard drives are no more
> expensive to manufacture, stock, distribute and finally sell than they
> were a month ago at $80.

Unless you factor in the cost of cleaning up a recently flooded
factory, in which case the next batch of disks to be built definitely
are more expensive to manufacture.

I can't see any likely way this flood would have a net positive effect
on disk manufacturers.

Eric
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