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Entry posted by sifi · October 25, 2006

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Hard Disc Cost Fall

Reuters (London: 31 October 2006)

Economic analysts were in shock today after leading computer hardware suppliers announced that the cost of computer hard drives had hit an all-time low, and would continue to fall drastically following a huge drop in demand in the market.

Despite the cost of computer equipment dropping steadily over the last four to five years, analysts predict that the cost of a standard hard drive will plummet in the next month or so due to a significant drop off in demand. In a Computer Equipment and peripherals conference, one IT systems expert announced that he anticipates a drop in price of up to 50 - 60 percent in the next calendar month. "It's an amazing drop in price," he said "But one that reflect the dynamic nature of the market. Interestingly, we don't anticipate significant fluctuation in the cost of RAM or other computer memory, nor much in the other hardware costs. The market for that equipments seems to be holding up - it's just hard-drives. Files aren't getting any smaller, so I find it particularly difficult to explain".

In other unrelated news, the e-festival user Cultseeker seems to have adopted a new posting style. In a u-turn following calls for what some have described as excessively intellectual posts, designed to belittle those who can't or won't decipher the posts, the controversial social commenter, responsible for such threads as the Pearl Jam one and the one about the Beatles, seems to have taken up a more mono-syllabic type of post. As result, average post length on the wibble part of e-festivals has dropped from 374 characters to 199 characters in a four hour period, representing an 87% drop.

In further unrelated news, the owner of e-festivals is anticipating significantly healthier profits this year, partly due to his capex budget for hard-drives being reduced by - oddly enough - 87%