Hard drives: prices drop some as of December

The retention of hard drives by wholesalers could soften and forces of supply and demand calls for lower prices. Bodes well ...Thailande Inondations.JPG



The floods in Thailand have completely changed the hard drive market, the country accounting for 25% of world production record companies and major parts suppliers (such as Nidec, which manufactures the engines rotation) will be unable to turn their factories.

Result, the shortage threat and return to normal production soon ... While the prices of hard drives have exploded, which is not without repercussions on the rest of the industry, among integrators who see their stock market decline and inevitably affected component.

Currently, it is expected therefore primarily new leading manufacturer with plants located in Thailand, like Western Digital, 60% of production is carried out in the country. News that did not really reassuring, since we previously spoke of a shortage is expected to reach its highest level in the first quarter of 2012 ...

Fortunately, the news is better. Indeed, if we are to believe the DigiTimes, wholesalers who jumped on the stocks, nourishing the general panic and contributing to skyrocketing prices, already begin to replenish so reassuring. So that we learn that they should start doing the sorting in their inventories in the coming weeks, so make concessions in scaling back their prices today. At all good for the consumer, according to the Asian site, is expected to affect the return to lower prices in the month of December.

The forces of supply and demand plays in favor of lower prices. Sources from the circuit vendors of hard disks believe that the expectations have been more alarmist than is actually the situation, and that the return to normal was planned for mid-2012 could ultimately place in January or February 2012. One of the plants Nidec was able to resume full production and other suppliers of hard disk manufacturers are now solutions to improve their returns on the lines that work. It only remains to hope that prices come down as fast as they are mounted, which is never easy ...

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