Massive Fire at SK Hynix Facility in Wuxi, China

T4C Fantasy · Sep 4, 2013

a few good things can come out of things like this, now they can upgrade their facility with all the latest machinery and in the end making better products and at a faster rate

FreedomEclipse · Sep 4, 2013

T4C Fantasy said:
a few good things can come out of things like this, now they can upgrade their facility with all the latest machinery and in the end making better products and at a faster rate

Or they could just sit back and cry more like all the hard drive manufacturers did while they kept the inflated prices?

_JP_ · Sep 4, 2013

Hasn't anybody come up with the ~~conspiracy~~ theory that the fire was set by someone working in for the HDD industry, to keep SSDs from getting attractive prices?
I mean, it was becoming a tendency, amongst enthusiasts at least, to only buy HDDs for large storage purposes. If prices skyrocket on SSDs...then you only have HDDs.

FreedomEclipse · Sep 4, 2013

_JP_ said:
Hasn't anybody come up with the ~~conspiracy~~ theory that the fire was set by someone working in for the HDD industry, to keep SSDs from getting attractive prices?
I mean, it was becoming a tendency, amongst enthusiasts at least, to only buy HDDs for large storage purposes. If prices skyrocket on SSDs...then you only have HDDs.

That depends....

There arent that many players in the HDD Cartel but if i remember correctly Seagate & WD (either both or one of the two) were taken to court for price fixing and fined by the EU.

When you talk about SSDs however, its a much bigger market and there are a lot more players in the game and that makes trying to play the game a lot harder as every company has to agree on a story and keep their prices inflated

RCoon · Sep 4, 2013

_JP_ said:
Hasn't anybody come up with the ~~conspiracy~~ theory that the fire was set by someone working in for the HDD industry, to keep SSDs from getting attractive prices?
I mean, it was becoming a tendency, amongst enthusiasts at least, to only buy HDDs for large storage purposes. If prices skyrocket on SSDs...then you only have HDDs.

Doubtful, HDD's are like £50 for 2TB, which seems like a decent price to me. Not to mention there is a huge price gap between SSD's, for example the 840 basic is one of the greatest SSD's for consumers, it holds and exceptionally low price for excellent performance. Then you take a Kingston SSD, that performs very average and costs more.
Samsung I think, will be OK during all of this, so their drives will likely stay cheap, and HDD's will stay as cheap as they are. More than likely the other brands will take a bigger hit, along with GPU's. Samsung chips are in short supply, and everybody else was using Hynix memory.

Fourstaff · Sep 4, 2013

FreedomEclipse said:
That depends....

There arent that many players in the HDD Cartel but if i remember correctly Seagate & WD (either both or one of the two) were taken to court for price fixing and fined by the EU.

When you talk about SSDs however, its a much bigger market and there are a lot more players in the game and that makes trying to play the game a lot harder as every company has to agree on a story and keep their prices inflated

There are not a lot of DRAM manufacturers though, off the top of my head I can list Samsung, Hynix, Micron and between 3 of them they probably have most of the market. For NAND I can only name Intel and Toshiba in addition to the three.

swagnuggets123 · Sep 4, 2013

(The price of ssds) UP UP AND AWAY!

erocker · Sep 4, 2013

Hopefully no one was hurt or killed.

Hood · Sep 5, 2013

T4C Fantasy said:
to bad these huge places don't have backup facilities for such occasions

yeah, or automatic fire extinguisher systems like every other modern factory, oh wait, they do have them, but the factory manager paid off the inspector with 12-year-old hookers and neglected to recharge the system....

Fourstaff · Sep 5, 2013

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-hynix-suspension-idUSBRE9830SP20130904

False alarm guys, and hope the injured person has a speedy recovery.

Prima.Vera · Sep 5, 2013

_JP_ said:
Hasn't anybody come up with the ~~conspiracy~~ theory that the fire was set by someone working in for the HDD industry, to keep SSDs from getting attractive prices?
I mean, it was becoming a tendency, amongst enthusiasts at least, to only buy HDDs for large storage purposes. If prices skyrocket on SSDs...then you only have HDDs.

Again, while this could be true for HDD makers, are only 2 big ones, it doesn't make any sense for SSD makers which are dozens.

_JP_ · Sep 5, 2013

erocker said:
Hopefully no one was hurt or killed.

If the fire started during active work hours, then the factory should have evacuation procedures to make sure everybody is exits the plant safely (even foxconn has those, right?).
Usually people die or get badly injured when they become stuck inside the burning building or while trying to contain the fire until firefighters arrive.
I didn't say that I wish for everybody to be ok because I thought it was implied.

Fourstaff said:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-hynix-suspension-idUSBRE9830SP20130904

False alarm guys, and hope the injured person has a speedy recovery.

There are no details regarding the poor fella, but I bet he has suffered from smoke inhalation. So yeah, I wish the guy a good recovery with appropriate treatment.
The 1st comment on that news states that the black smoke clouds were toxic and affected the neighboring population. Which is really bad and, for some reason, wasn't reported in the news.

douglatins · Sep 5, 2013

Yeah im suspicious, hdds got a lot more expensive and now companies are profiting alot more after the floods, so this could be an "incedent"

kn00tcn · Sep 6, 2013

Prima.Vera said:
Again, while this could be true for HDD makers, are only 2 big ones, it doesn't make any sense for SSD makers which are dozens.

they dont make much... the nand is still samsung, micron, hynix, etc

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