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Hard Drive Prices Hitting New Lows

Posted by Zonk on from the get-em'-while-they're-cheap dept.

Lucas123 writes "The average price of notebook hard drives tumbled to $53 in the third quarter of 2007, from $86 in the same period during the previous year, according to a survey by a market research firm. The price drop can be accredited to competition among six vendors, enormous demand for PCs and consumer electronics as well as evolving flash memory drives. 'Lower-capacity notebook drives showed smaller price drops, while newer high-capacity drives saw massive price drops ... Notebook drives with 320GB of storage will drop as a result of the addition of new features, while prices will stabilize on lower-capacity notebook storage devices like 80GB hard drives.'"

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  1. In other news by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stock market continues to hit new highs.

    Gravity attracts.

    Clinton remains unelectable.

  2. Not bad by matt21811 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have studied the price improvements going back 16 years.
    The long term average space improvement per dollar spent, year on year is about 100%. That is, you'd get twice as much space for your dollar each year. That was until about 4 years ago. These days you can only expect a 50% year on year improvement.

    See my data and analysis here:
    http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/harddrives.html