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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (7579)	12/19/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: Mark Madden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Sarmad - The prices we usually see are retail prices. The manufacturers sell to retail dealers for a lower price but I do not know what kind of markups the retailers get. Other people on this thread know far more than I do about the cost to manufacture a hard drive but I will make some guesses. Maybe they can make corrections to my guesses and fill in the blanks. Stitch gave us some component costs recently that may help us determine the difference in the cost of additional platters. I think his figures were $8.45 for a platter and $18.00 for a head. This means a platter with two head would cost in the neighborhood of $50 installed in a drive. I assume the lower capacity components may drop in price and the higher capacity components may cost a little more. Manufacturers have several 10g drives selling for the $130 range and only a few are single platter. Obviously the single platter are more profitable. Seagate does not have a 10gb platter but their lower capacity platters are likely less expensive because they are near the end of their product cycle. Regards, Mark