SSD prices dropping drastically, Seagate won't have the chance to compete, soon will have a big retrenchment next year. The old days of HDDs finally ended.
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Hey bonehead. All Seagate employee laptops are now 100% SSD. Want to downgrade with a super slow HDD drive in yours?
512Gig SSD is down to $70. How do mechanical HDD compete in margin? Would you prefer Seagate to renew your working laptop with a mechanical drive ?
Yep, everyone I know is lining up to down-grade their personal computers from a $52 3TB hard drive to a $130 256GB 3D NAND Solid State Drive.
LOL.
You guys crack me up.
Wow. Just did a search on ssd prices. No bottom insight, even into 2019. Good news is I’m upgrading my laptop.
SSD price drop help Seagate lower costs? Ahhh NO! Let me help you understand. You can't look at one end of the equation. We get less money for the damn things because we have to sell them cheaper and margins are squeezed. And do you think a 3rd party SSD assembler like Seagate has more or less margin than a NAND manufacturer? The net result is increased losses for Seagate SSD division. Hell, most of Seagate's SSD drive are just bought from other companies and slapped with a Seagate label. LOL. The management told you that, right? No? Oh. LOL
@W0h5IgE-tut Im guessing the person meant HDD .Dont think anyone can be that clueless
"The market is saturated with heads for SSD's"
Whach you talkin' bout Willis? (i.e., SSD's don't use heads...)
The market is saturated with heads for SSD's.There are very small profit margins,so get used to getting no pay rises or a profit bonus for a while.
Pfffft, all the drastic price drops do is put the marginal SSD drive and component vendors out of business as their profit margins drop to zero. I have a friend who buys SSD and said whenever there is a glut, the quality heads south as SSD companies cut corners and cut quality.
Wouldn't falling SSD prices actually make it easier for Seagate to compete, as its costs would decline?
On a related note, has Seagate's market share of the SSD market moved out of the sub-one percent range yet?