Seagate And Western Digital Scam: Fake Hard Disk Drive Crisis
Softpedia has done a decent research and found out what the actual strategy is behind an obvious crisis and short supply of hard disk drives. Loot sale is on going to make big bucks in short period of time. May be the giant manufacturers of hard drives and HDD technology keepers are thinking about the future when their hard drive manufacturing business will reach its end due to the abundant supply of capacious, long lasting and cheap SSDs.
Check these softpedia articles to get into the loft of hectic HDD crisis:
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My Opinion:
Quite frankly, this current “crisis” is really a make up for coming actual crisis of low profits. People have started moving towards SSD which are better equivalent to HDD and pretty soon, HDD business will start sinking down. Some people argue that it is the rule of demand and supply that if supply is short, prices will definitely increase. I do agree with this economics “loot” law. But quite frankly, hard drives were never short from market after the Thailand’s flood. Or at least not short in supply for me because whenever I visited market, I always found all kinds of Seagate and Western Digital hard drives in abundant supply.
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