guys.
thailand is flooding.
stock up your hdds for your chinese cartoons.
>>45815287
Flooding Thailand to increase HDD prices and promote 10-bit video
>>45815287
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
On another note, should I sell all of my hard drives in the next few weeks?
I really need to download season 2 of strike witches
>>45815618
Yes, you do.
Fucking again? Goddamnit.
Thanks OP, been running low on HDD space. Was planning to hold out and see what I could delete to stave off another addition, but guess I'll go ahead and order some more now before prices get jacked up.
>Thailand
Who gives a shit about those mudfarmers? Malaysia is the one you need to worry about.
>not just getting your shit from Taiwan
>>45815706
>25% of HDD production.
Damn it Thailand, stop getting flooded all the time.
>>45815287
Why aren't any of them wearing pants?
>>45815706
Don't you remember the last thailand flood?
Oh right you're 12 years old.
Hard drive prices have ONLY JUST RECOVERED.
Thailand produces 90% of the world's hard drive motors or something.
mfw i just bought another 4tb drive
mfw i found out a few minutes ago about seagates 8tb drive
>>45815706
>Malaysia is the one you need to worry about.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/asia-flooding/
>Even by Malaysian standards, this flooding is epic.
Buckle up bitches
Aren't Seagate drives made in China?
>>45815738
>yfw the 8TB drives were supposed to be $260.
>yfw they're going to be $500+ now.
fug
>>45815728
Females don't wear pants in the universe of the series.
Great, absolutely great
<90 gigs left and I blew my money on christmas shit
How long did it take for things to stabilize last time? Like a full year?
>>45815287
>2 TB hard drives hit $70 and headed south
> Thailand floods 2011
> repeat 2014
Fuck me when Seagate is going to be the only HDD vendor left on the planet come February, using an active sandpaper factory as the main production clean room for their China facilities.
tl;dr it anons, which sector is going to suddenly regress to most expensive prices in the past ten years?
>>45815728
It's set in WW2. To use the fictional magic fighter plane leg motor things, you have to not be wearing pants. So they don't wear pants.
And in doing so, they fly around shooting aliens.
What's fun is that schoolgirls all over the world see the strike witches as heroes and forgo pants too.
Is this a good time to invest in Seagate?
>>45815766
>How long did it take for things to stabilize last time? Like a full year?
3, almost to the month
>>45815790
>What's fun is that schoolgirls all over the world see the strike witches as heroes and forgo pants too.
Was that explanation actually given? From what I remember it was just normal to not use pants in-universe?
>Go to newegg to buy some HDDs
>Prices have already risen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ
>>45815417
Dammit daiz.
>>45815822
It's been a while since I saw strike witches. It's definitely canon, but it might be a manga thing that explains it explicitly. It's definitely implied in the show though.
>>45815287
I don't get the picture. What is the joke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgxOXEQaFU
>>45815819
Remember how when this happened years back prices got so bad that it actually made SSDs start to look affordable? Now that SSDs actually are almost reasonably priced now (500GB costs, what, $250 now?), anyone else think that this might be what finally causes SSDs to overtake HDDs as the dominant storage media? It'll be a cascading effect too. As SSD uptake increases, prices go down, causing the price difference to further exacerbate.
>>45815869
> fish stock
> loli bathwater
I'll never forgive you for making me go there.
>even the fucking IDE hard drive I was looking at has risen in price
>>45815825
Lol
I don't know how US price crawlers work or where to find them. I need to know asap how much they've risen already.
Last time NZ was 1 day behind in raising their prices, even though it'd take like 4 weeks for their stock rotation to hit new prices. Fucking thieves.
What's the highest capacity drive I can get with a reasonable death rate and price? Was looking at 4TB WD Green, but apparently it has some bullshit firmware issue that causes it to idle its head after 8 seconds.
>>45815941
The head parking/idle can be changed. There are a few articles on it. 3TB's seem to have a higher failure rate than others on the whole.
>>45815941
Seagate, made in China
>>45815861
I remember something about Striker Units working better if in contact with bare skin (yet Sanya uses a pantyhose), but I don't recall anything that implied that's the reason even non-witches don't wear pants.
Well, guess I should check out those mangos and find out.
So whats the geologic reason almost all of the HDD's are outsourced to a tiny piece of shit country that gets its shit slammed constantly?
Just had a look at pricing stats.
How come almost every single drive (or just WD, haven't checked the others) went up solidly across the board and all vendors 1 month before december?
>>45815965
Cheap labour.
Customer foots the repair bill anyway. With contracts to major data centers getting priority and usually a contracted flat pricing, we get more buttfucked.
>>45815966
Black Friday, raise the price in early Nov then lower it so it looks like a super good deal
>>45815965
Placebo because China has a bad reputation with everything electronics, so they rather have them from Chinese puppet-states like Taiwan or shitty islands like Malaysia. Labor is also piss-cheap there.
See: "Japanese Caps" in your power supply
>>45815966
>How come a consumer product went up in price right before the Christmas shopping season?
>still buying spinny magnet discs like it's the fucking 1950's
Keep up with the times you plebs, and start investing in companies that put factories in the middle of a stinky jungle swamp or whatever
>>45816008
This nigga gets it
Now is THE TIME to invest in ramdisks
Trust me you'll be kicking yourself in the future if you don't
Just bought a 1 TB notebook HDD for $49.99 this morning:
- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149377
promo code: ESCWHHD25 ends 01 Jan
and a 2 TB 3.5" HDD yesterday for $69.99:
- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149407
promo code: ESCWHHE39 ends 31 Dec
I know these drives don't have the best reviews, but I have two of the 2.5" drives and three of the 3.5" drives, all in service for over a year and perfectly healthy. I just got these two with some Christmas cash because they have served so well. I use them for data storage, no OS or apps on them. Two of the 3.5" drives have been torrenting 24/7 for over a year, one of them for ~18 months. They've been solid for me. Do what you will that info.
>>45815989
Ah, I forgot about black friday.
>>45815998
This was my thinking.
I looked a little harder and it's actually about 4 months prior.
>>45815893
Miyafuji isn't a loli. She is clearly a teenager with a teenager body.
>>45815997
I'd imagine it's also because Chinese labor is starting to get more expensive now that the country is modernizing. A lot of companies are their manufacturing out of China and back to the US because now the US is cheaper when shipping costs are taken into consideration, or they're moving their operations to even shittier countries. You know, like Thailand and Malaysia.
So is this the year of the SSDs and LTOs?
>>45816026
>Now is the time
>RAM prices haven't been this high for DDR3 since 2012
>>45816028
>Toshiba
How are these drives compared to Seagate and WD?
>hard drives
>not storing music and video on vhs
>not storing photos on reversal slides
>not storing documents on paper and microfilm
plebs
>>45816082
>Storing everything on media with the same drawbacks plus more, like stretching, rotting, discolouration and humidity damage
I understand your lels, but c'mon.
>>45816082
I work at a place that has drawers full of 1TB+ cassette tapes. Think I'll be archiving all my Chinese cartoons for the next few years until HDD prices come back down.
>>45816096
My tapes don't have head crashes if they are dropped.
My paper documents don't become completely unreadable from a single drop of water.
>>45816082
>Not recording music on wax cylinders
>Not storing documents on bound animal skin and quill ink
>mfw another Asian airplane just disappeared too
COINCIDENCE?
>>45816079
Hitachi makes some really solid hard drives. I think they're called HGST now after the Western Digital takeover.
I personally avoid Seagate drives, never had good experiences with them.
>>45816134
>yfw crashes into HDD manufacturing plant
>>45815287
Stocking up on 4TB hard drives here, so no worries.
>>45816130
Nah, VHS Hi-Fi has a full 20kHz frequency range and a pretty good snr.
>>45816145
Don't put that evil on us.
>>45816117
>>45816117
My HDD doesn't have tracking issues or stretching.
My HDD can take 2 drops of water, no sweat.
>>45816134
>>45816145
>plane goes full MH370
>flies into Chinese airspace
>crashes into the Seagate factory
>>45816079
As I said, I just bought more because my others have been pretty awesome 'til now ... low temps, quiet, SMART numbers all like new. But, I respect these for what they are: mass data storage without constant OS & application activity.
Fuck Seagate. Never.
WD depends on model, but I'd only look at Black & Purple HDDs. Reds seem OKay for NAS. I won't ever have another Blue (three bad ones in three years) and the Greens scare me.
I still have 3 original Samsung 2 TB HDDs from before the 2011 floods, when they were still Korean and made in Korea. All of them are like new, but once Seagate took over the Samsung brand, the quality plummeted to shit-tier overnight ... exactly how much time it took Seagate to start production in China.
Seagate. Never.
These Toshibas are budget HDDs, but I've had top luck so far because I run them through surface testing and low level format when I get them before trusting them to service.
Alll my applications and operating systems are installed to SSDs. I do love my WD Black HDDs, though. Top tier luck with them, when I could afford them.
Have two HGST notebook HDDs I like, but haven't stressed them for long enough to say how reliable.
hitachi is gud
btw, do they make those hitachi dildo toys? wtf does hitachi mean?
>>45816173
>another plane goes missing right after
>48 hours later reappears in Taiwan
>crashes into another HDD factory
>>45815755
Dare I ask why?
>>45816207
>wtf does hitachi mean?
sunrise
>Seagate will be the only brand that isn't inflated in 2015
>>45816079
>>45816177
Toshiba drives are decent, better than Seagate at least. I've been lucky with Western Digital Black and Red drives but my favorite is still Hitachi as they're pretty rock solid.
>>45816235
No, they'll be inflated too. It happened last time Thailand flooded. If all their competitors' jack up their prices, Seagate will too because they can. Even if they decided to not be jews, they'd still mark up the prices up the overall supply of HDDs across all manufacturers would be low, causing demand for HDDs in general to rise, including Seagate drives.
>>45816252
Too bad Hitachi doesn't make Hitachi hdd's anymore.
>>45816168
>tracking issues
>stretching
I've got videos from at least twenty years ago that play fine. It just requires that you take some care with them.
>>45816210
You don't even need to. All you need to do is read the thread.
>>45816177
>>45816252
>>45816135
Hmmm...I can get two 2TB Toshiba drives for $152 or one 4TB HGST drive for $165. I'm thinking the two drives since that's safer than one drive, right?
Then again, it's not a big deal, I only use these drives to horde pirated shit. Hell, 4TB of my 5TB of storage is in Seagate drives.
>>45816285
They still do, but under the name "HGST".
http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/internal-drive-kits
So, who makes the least dog shit 2tb drives?
Gonna buy 10 of it because these hdd cartels will inflate it as long as possibily can.
>>45816315
>HGST, Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital that sells hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services.[1]
>>45816321
I'm tempted to do the same, but I'm not sure the margin would be worth the risk in the event prices don't go up for whatever reason.
>>45816321
>>45816341
Investments might be a smarter option. Question is, what's better: investing in Seagate since their factories will be unaffected, or investing in multiple SSD manufacturers in the hopes that increased prices on HDDs will lead to SSDs overtaking HDDs permanently?
>>45816341
>perfect opportunity to jew
>"w-what if they don't jew?!?? "
>>45816134
Again? Was the last one even found? I just remember news of it getting thrown aside when shit was getting tense in slav land
>>45816321
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ1XS5291&cm_re=hgst_deskstar_2tb-_-22-145-475-_-Product
You can probably find them cheaper elsewhere if you shop around.
>>45816363
>Again?
Yup, just happened.
>Was the last one even found?
Still looking. On the bright side, we have a very good map of the floor of the Indian Ocean now.
>>45816359
Nah last time I tried buying stocks was a complicated mess. There's more money to made reselling hdds unless you're going enterprise tier where logistics becomes an issue.
>>45816312
Unless you have lots of drive bays to hold them I'd get the 4TB one. I've been using 4TB drives in both my PC and NAS for a while now, so far so good.
>>45816321
If money is no issue, Western Digital Black is best all-around. Excellent HDD performance, top reliability, can be used to store data or run apps or mixed. They're 7200 rpm and use a much electricity as anything, run slightly warm because of that, but can be kept cool by non-retards without much effort.
Consider WD Purple for pure data storage, they tend around $85.
If you want to risk it on budget, look to HGST (which isn't much risk, they're pretty solid) with Toshiba >>45816028 being about comparable.
They key is that the user be not retarded and know how to clean, test & format and how to use a drive for it's designed purpose.
WD Green drives have a shit rep, for example, because 12 year old twinks buy 2 TB models cheap, then install Windows on them and their entire fucking STEAM account and play games on them every night for 6 or 8 hours. If that's what you want tyo do with an HDD, then go WD Black or SSD, not an eco drive designed for storage.
>>45816321
Just stay away from Seagate drives
>>45816388
>Bright side
>Floor of ocean
>Dark humour
I don't know why I laughed. Goddamn I'm lame.
>>45816146
>>45816321
>>45816341
Stocking up on 3TB drives here as well.
Got bitten hard by prices when the previous flood happened so I'm not making the same mistake again
>>45816117
>>45816510
I got lucky last time, bought a 2TB drive one day before the floods, by the time I heard about them it was too late. Vendors jacked them overnight, even the little shops on the side.
>>45816510
I feel like I should stock up too but I worry I'm just being trolled into losing a lot of money.
>>45816321
Seagate is not worth the headache, I bought a 2TB drive from them during cyber monday and it has already failed. I'm just glad it was within my 30 day return period and I can get a refund from newegg. I will never buy another Seagate drive ever again. I bought a valuable life lesson.
>>45816321
Used Hitachi HDD's (including some of their externals) before WD bought the company and continued buying HGST drives after. I have no complaints.
>>45816554
Difference here is the magnets won't make the whole tape unreadable unless that is what you set out to do, (or they are really powerful). A hard-drive will be destroyed in seconds.
Also, a wiped tape will still work as a blank post-magnet.
>>45815287
Fuck! Not again!
>>45815287
Which episode was that? only watches season 1
Does this affect any other devices?
>you'll never drink a japanese girl's bathwater
why live?
>>45816764
just go to an onsen
>>45816724
That's... fair enough, actually. I was more thinking about the strength (you'd need a much stronger magnet to wipe a HDD than a tape) but i didnt think about reusability.
Maybe its time to go back to using old datacenter tapes
>>45816769
They're not co-ed you dumbass.
>>45816758
Anything with an HDD in it will go up in price, albeit not as much as HDDs will.
>>45816724
You underestimate the magnetic strength needed to fuck with the platters.
>>45816786
clearly you lack necessary ninja skillz
>>45816786
>Not sneaking over the bamboo wall to the other side
>Not drilling a hole through the wall and drinking the water with a straw
It's as if you've never watched a single Chinese cartoon.
>>45815287
haha really funny why is anime so great? :D
>>45816556
worst case. you don't open them and resell at a slight loss but who dosen't need more storage or redundant backups?
Why not just buy SSDs
>>45816556
best case, you can re sell at a higher [price
oh shit.
>>45816950
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236404
>>45816950
they're not the only ones increasing the price
>>45816950
Am I missing something here?
>>45816298
>just requires care
so do hard drives and DVDs nig
>>45817043
3.5" vs 2.5"
>>45816285
Japs BTFO from all manufacturing
>>45817043
>>45817007
>>45816950
>flood started a week ago,
>news of flood on cnn today
>no news whether the industrial park was hit
>price goes up
haha that disinfo.
not quite yet but maybe in a few hours
>"Weather Warning
Strong Wind-Waves in Gulf of Thailand and Heavy Rain in South
No. 8 Time Issued December 28, 2014
During 28 December 2014 to 1 January 2015, the northeast monsoon across the South and the Gulf of Thailand will intensify. Scattered rain, as well as isolated heavy rain, will be likely over the lower South, especially in Phatthalung, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. People in the areas should beware of the severe condition due to influence of accumulative rainfall. The strong wind waves are likely 2-4 meters high. Residents along the coast should beware of inshore surge. All ships should proceed with caution and small boats from Nakhon Si Thammarat past south keep ashore. Another strong high pressure area extends to the upper Northeastern Thailand. Cooler weather with windy is forec...more"
>>45815842
>daiz
I remember this name from years ago in my /a/ days. Didn't he work for crunchyroll or something?
>>45817146
He's the developer of the h264 10-bit profile
mfw I got muh HDD from shitbuy™ before the prices get fucked to all hell
>>45816431
>not an eco drive designed for storage.
Before reading your post I had no idea the difference between the whole green/black thing. They don't really specify well that it's only for storage.
In light of this knowledge, I will get either a black drive or SSD. How much better would an SSD be for performance? I play CSGO all day.
I have a WD green 3tb and I've head they're shit. Of course eveything on that hdd is backed up but how soon should I expect this to fail?
>>45816431
Why bother with blacks when blues only have marginally less power and cost about $30 less? Is that $30 worth three years warranty and a very slight performance increase?
>>45817243
you can not compare a hdd to even cheep ssds as far as performance is concerned.
if you want fast go ssd. if you want lots of room for not retarded amounts of money and speed is not a big factor go hdd.
>>45817269
>green
rip
>>45815706
This. Sea gate has a factory there that's not flooded so I don't know why are you buying anything other than them in the next months
>>45817630
seagate a shit
>>45817299
Blacks have a longer warranty.
I will gladly pay for the warranty alone.
>>45817269
Greens are okay for storage, unless you're accessing it constantly; i.e. putting an OS/pagefile on it.
>>45817760
Epic meme le upboated
>>45817791
Considering I've got 4 of them without problems, currently.
Just movies and ISO's. I don't run torrents directly to the HDD either, rather en-mass when my torrent drive is full.
>>45817799
>Epic meme
Thankfully it's one of the few that have made it past the knowyourlemaymay. It's also my favorite.
>>45817299
Blacks have better parts and are more reliable
>>45815930
>NZ
You know how it works here: demand 'demand' for for a good or service, and then raise the price. I still don't understand why a 2 TB WD Black is $200. You'd seriously be better off buying 2x2 TB Seagate drives and putting them in RAID for the same price.
>>45817923
that's racist
>>45818023
It's still $200 because lel NZ.
The same reason why 980's are still almost a grand.
I hate to be _that_ guy, but after having suffered the wrath of the 7200.11 problem, I wont be buying seagate again unless I have no option. HDD solely for storage, warranty length is just a bonus. SSD's for everything else.
Btw, if you're ever after a PSU, go to techworld. Legit guy, seriously undercuts everyone else in that department.
Are 4TB discs ready for the prime time? I'm looking at WD Greens.
I'll buy 4 and RAID5 them so reliability is not much of an issue. I've wanted to do that for a while and might as well do it now.
>have no money
>almost filled up 2tb hard drive with games
>anime and music hds halfway
goddamn it
>>45818052
I bought a 4TB Hitachi last year, they're pretty reliable according to Backblaze. They are using a shitload of HDDs and often report on the reliability of the different brands and models they use.
Fuck
/g/ should I buy that WD Red 4TB now? Because I actually start to need it and I dont need it to become any more expensive
>>45818052
keep in mind that at that size and speed, replacing a drive means putting at least around 10 solid hours of full load on the other drives to resilver a new drive
>>45817791
>mfw i have a 2tb green that i use for anime movies and where my torrents go
>Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB
>$79.99 in december of 2012
>$214.95 currently
what the fuck is going on
>>45818047
>The same reason why 980's are still almost a grand
970s are still well over $500; it's fucking stupid. I feel sad just looking at low US prices, even after they've been converted to NZD.
>the wrath of the 7200.11 problem
That's why you can chuck them in RAID 1 for the same price as a 2 TB WD Black. Having mirrors is crucial for the old HDD failure phobia.
>SSD's for everything else
I walked into PB Tech the other day, and they had a Crucial MX100 512 GB going for slightly under $300. SSDs are for storage size stupidly expensive, and not worth the performance boost for the price. You'd be better off buying a 1 TB WD Blue.
>>45818151
pretty sure he just means speed-wise
i'm personally ok with my small raid of "green" drives (barracuda LT's)
Again? Jesus
>>45818170
>WD1002FAEX
why buy the old out dated model when the WD1003FZEX is already out and $75?
>>45816211
>mfw I know japanese but didn't notice this till now
MIND = BLOWN
>>45815287
god not again, why the fuck cant they build sand barricades already, they are not that expensive for large companies.
its just fucking retarded that we constantly have to deal with this bullshit, 2 floods in the span of what? 5 Years? 4 years? Thats a flood or a fuckup almost every 2 years. You would think that by now they would try to combat it a bit at least.
other nations treat their industrial companies as national treasures to be protected, tactical economic engines they are. I dont see silicone valley flooding or getting wrecked once every couple of years.
>>45815898
>2015-3days
>still using IDE
>>45818151
>only 2tb. how many yify's can you store on that?
>>45816799
It's sector markings that kill the drive.
>>45818680
Implying you have the 1.6GB ones, and not the 700MB unable to watch versions.
2TB = ~1900GB For some reason (Something with the filesystem?) = 1900GB / 1.6 = 1186 shit movies
Enjoy
>>45818736
>2TB = ~1900GB
2TB = 2000GB
2TB = 1862 GiB
>>45818774
Thanks, i knew it was something like this
>>45815706
> http://www.bbc.com/news/business-17567635
please read that before commenting.
we got raped on HDD prices the last time it happened
>>45817630
>Sea gate
>flooding
>>45818086
Anyone? Is it going to be bad? I only have 1TB left on my NAS so its about time to upgrade anyway
I wonder if we should start a kickstarter or something to help these inept chinks and brown people get some tall soil walls around our factories.
>>45816724
>Difference here is the magnets won't make the whole tape unreadable
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
>The magnetic servo tracks on the tape are factory encoded. Using a bulk eraser (or otherwise exposing the cartridge to a strong magnetic field) will erase the servo tracks along with the data tracks, rendering the cartridge unusable.
Afraid modern tapes are too complicated to survive.
>>45818774
Half life confirmed
Fuck it i just bought 4TB to be on the safe side, i need space for my Chinese cartoons.
>>45816950
IT'S HAPPENING
>>45818557
>implying there is a real-world difference between IDE and SATA other than improved airflow from the smaller cables
Isn't seagate the only ones producing there? Why not just buy hitachi or western digital?
>>45818868
I just bought a couple of 4TB drives just to be safe, and it seems that prices are starting to increase at a few places so I probably made a good call.
>>45820393
Because they would just increase their prices along with them because supply and demand.
God fucking dam it not again...
How long till the price hits the shelves? I'll try to pick up a couple of 3TB's to hold me over, but if it's gonna be 3 fucking years before we get back where we are now I'm gonna be pissed.
Should I buy seagate or WD?
What's with all the colours of WD?
Figure I'll buy one before a price rise.
>>45815706
In 2011 I bought a 2TB disk for $89.
Fucking new.
What risk am i taking in buying a 2TB HDD instead of a regular 1TB.
It's a Toshiba one.
Should I buy a WD Green 2TB or a Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive for media storage?
>>45820411
WD
Red = NAS (Stable but not very fast)
Black = Performance + avg. Stability
Green = avg. Preformance + avg, Stabillity
And then there is shit like Purple which is Really Stable but has shit random IO or something
>>45815287
Guys what if HDD manufacturers are flooding Thailand on purpose?
>>45820474
Why would they?
They make less HDD's due flood
They can sell less HDD's due flood
HDDs are made in Thailand? I thought that was RAM.
>>45820483
an excuse to jack up the prices even though there's no actual reduction in production of supply.
>>45820487
DRAM is Taiwan.
>be me
>down to 25GB free space
>no cash until January 1st
>December 28th
>Thailand flooding
>Two days of possible price hikes
pic related
>>45815287
Fuck off not again.
>>45820505
Do the same as I did.
I took the cleaver to the porn. 2T freed up. Still like 1,5T left.
Just bought 2x 6TB WD Reds and a Synology DS214se.
Did I do good /g/?
>>45820541
I don't think the DS214 supports disks bigger then 4TB
>>4582054
Shit tier nas. Return it for a ds214+/215play or better yet build your own.
>>45820541
>>45820559
https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility/hd/DS214se
Nevermind they do
>>45815706
Supply and Demand.
Currently the supply/demand is stable. If supply lowers and demand remains the same, the prices go up. 25% reduction in HDD increases the prices of HDD.
