Hard drive makers and memory vendors alike continue to charge a king’s ransom for solid state drives (SSDs), which if there’s a silver lining to this, it’s that HDDs are more affordable than ever, and they’re about to come down in price even more.
Citing un-named sources from major hard drive players, Digitimes says HDD quotes in Taiwan at the of June dropped 10-20 percent from where they were at the beginning of the second quarter. While the steady march of SSDs is no doubt playing a role, the bigger reason is that HDD makers adjusted their shipment forecast for the third quarter due to Europe’s bond crisis.
This seems to affecting all levels of hard drives, especially the larger models. Capacities over 500GB were down an average of 20 percent at the end of June compared to one quarter ago, while 250GB and 320GB capacities dropped an average of 10 percent.
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Need More Storage? Hard Drive Prices Expected to Fall
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