Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi work on new models of hard drives at low prices for netBook. According to sources in the Asian magazine DigiTimes, the price of hard drives could be reduced by half by the second half of 2009.
The hard disk is the most expensive component of economic ultra-portable, assemblers of such machines would effectively pressure on manufacturers of hard drives. While a processor, a slab LCD or battery costs fall 20 and $ 25, a hard drive costs 40 to 45 dollars. They are therefore a priority for assemblers Netbook.
Manufacturers of hard drives are reducing production costs by focusing on the controllers on the magnetic platters or heads reading / writing. Hope in any case it will not cutbacks. Hard disks and a single 80 GB could see the day first, followed by models 100 and 120 GB Finally it seems enough to put pressure on manufacturers to get great discounts.
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