Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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Meh, I bet Sony used some new fangled tech to create a flood, satellite weather control.
Surely people should seriously consider £55-60 bluray writers and 10 packs of 25gb discs for £10 you can get these days. Just a shame that, I can't remember if its 75gb, or 100gb discs are around £100
thing is, most people don't even need much storage, they are just being told they need it. The amount of family and friends who have computers with 1-2tb drives in, yet have barely any data on them, windows, photo's, done, 1.5tb spare.
Sure, downloaders "need" storage, in the same way that these days you can download at a rate faster than you can watch or listen to whatever it is you're downloading.
Most home users wouldn't care if you took their old hdd's and stuck it in a new computer, and most downloaders can delete 90% of what they've got, and download anything they had within an hour or two anyway.
General prices that have been seen, almost weekly someone has had a deal of £70 or 80 for 2tb drives, yet all the proper component selling sites have them ridiculously higher.
I think people are in general, talking rubbish about the lack of supply of drives, there is a lack of supply, but there is less demand than people wanted to think there was in the first place.
IE Dell might be sticking 640-1tb drives in most of their desktops, but most of the people who buy them wouldn't need anymore than 160-320gb drives anyway. There is still, as stock market statements/investor statements tell us, 10's of millions of drives coming out per quarter from the two hardest hit guys, and that will only increase over time, not decrease further.
As for the low margins Seagate and WD make, tough tata's really, they sell hundreds of millions of drives, DO make a profit, and boohoo, they'll live with it. People pay cheap prices for 2tb drives, because almost every person who has a computer could live on 250gb drives if they needed to, 2tb's are a luxury. We don't delete video we'll often never watch again, just because its convenient to have in case you do want it again, the IMPORTANT stuff we can't delete, for the vast majority of people is a pretty small amount and a lot of it people want hard copies of, like photo's and if HDD's become stupidly priced as said a Bluray and a few discs to back up all your family photo's AND have a second copy to store somewhere else is a better option in the first place.
HDD's in stupid capacity's are stupid cheap because we don't actually need them, its really that simple. if windows took 300gb, and everyone took 25MP photo's in raw at 20MB's a pop and everyone took the highest quality lossless audio files. But Windows is still sub 50gb, by a long way and due to get smaller again next time, most people keep mp3's in low quality and can't tell the difference, most people take jpeg photo's at low quality with meh camera's.
Surely people should seriously consider £55-60 bluray writers and 10 packs of 25gb discs for £10 you can get these days. Just a shame that, I can't remember if its 75gb, or 100gb discs are around £100
thing is, most people don't even need much storage, they are just being told they need it. The amount of family and friends who have computers with 1-2tb drives in, yet have barely any data on them, windows, photo's, done, 1.5tb spare.
Sure, downloaders "need" storage, in the same way that these days you can download at a rate faster than you can watch or listen to whatever it is you're downloading.
Most home users wouldn't care if you took their old hdd's and stuck it in a new computer, and most downloaders can delete 90% of what they've got, and download anything they had within an hour or two anyway.
General prices that have been seen, almost weekly someone has had a deal of £70 or 80 for 2tb drives, yet all the proper component selling sites have them ridiculously higher.
I think people are in general, talking rubbish about the lack of supply of drives, there is a lack of supply, but there is less demand than people wanted to think there was in the first place.
IE Dell might be sticking 640-1tb drives in most of their desktops, but most of the people who buy them wouldn't need anymore than 160-320gb drives anyway. There is still, as stock market statements/investor statements tell us, 10's of millions of drives coming out per quarter from the two hardest hit guys, and that will only increase over time, not decrease further.
As for the low margins Seagate and WD make, tough tata's really, they sell hundreds of millions of drives, DO make a profit, and boohoo, they'll live with it. People pay cheap prices for 2tb drives, because almost every person who has a computer could live on 250gb drives if they needed to, 2tb's are a luxury. We don't delete video we'll often never watch again, just because its convenient to have in case you do want it again, the IMPORTANT stuff we can't delete, for the vast majority of people is a pretty small amount and a lot of it people want hard copies of, like photo's and if HDD's become stupidly priced as said a Bluray and a few discs to back up all your family photo's AND have a second copy to store somewhere else is a better option in the first place.
HDD's in stupid capacity's are stupid cheap because we don't actually need them, its really that simple. if windows took 300gb, and everyone took 25MP photo's in raw at 20MB's a pop and everyone took the highest quality lossless audio files. But Windows is still sub 50gb, by a long way and due to get smaller again next time, most people keep mp3's in low quality and can't tell the difference, most people take jpeg photo's at low quality with meh camera's.
