Chapter 244 Countermeasures on the other side of the ocean
Boss Du felt a little angry when he heard this, but he also felt that what these customers said did make some sense.
The performance of carbon crystal hard drives is much higher than that of traditional mechanical hard drives. Even if the retail version is more expensive than mechanical hard drives of the same specifications, it is definitely much more cost-effective to buy a carbon crystal hard drive.
Boss Du asked: "What do you think is the appropriate price for a mechanical hard drive?"
“The price should be at least half cheaper!”
Half the price, that is, an 80g hard drive costs four to five hundred yuan to meet consumer demand.
How can this be?!
Boss Du's purchase price is more than this.
At present, Xia Guo has not fully joined the WTO. The reason why hard drives are expensive is that in addition to the original cost, the bulk of the sales price is due to tariffs.
To put it more bluntly, Boss Du can earn up to more than 100 yuan from an 80g mechanical hard drive.
Boss Du was about to get angry, but after thinking about it, he felt that what the consumers said did make sense.
Carbon crystal hard drives will definitely dominate the future market. Since everyone can buy carbon crystal hard drives at almost the same price, why should we buy mechanical hard drives?
Now everyone in the industry knows that carbon crystal hard drives will definitely be mass-produced in the future and will not always be out of stock.
I can’t sell the millions of mechanical hard drives I have now, and it will be even more difficult to sell them in the future.
Boss Du has been able to work hard in the computer hardware industry for so many years and make his own industry worth millions. He not only has his own skills, but also has industry acumen.
Boss Du made a prompt decision and sold the mechanical hard drive in his hand at a reduced price, with a discount of 60 to 30% off.
More than 1,000 80G hard drives were sold by Boss Du for 700 yuan.
If sold at this price, Boss Du will definitely lose money.
But there are benefits to selling at this price.
At least Boss Du can get his investment back in a very short period of time, ensuring that the capital chain is not broken.
Using this money to purchase Shenchuan computers or carbon crystal hard drives will definitely make up for the shortfall in mechanical hard drives.
And based on Boss Du's judgment, he clearly knew that if he did not seize the window period when the production of carbon crystal hard drives was insufficient, he would seize the time to sell mechanical hard drives.
When the production of carbon crystal hard drives is sufficient in the future, it will be even harder to sell mechanical hard drives.
Boss Du's self-rescue did indeed save him.
But he didn't expect that his move would cause a chain reaction in the entire Huaqiangbei and even the global hard drive market.
The first is Huaqiangbei. Since Boss Du is a big hard drive owner, he has mechanical hard drives worth millions.
These mechanical hard drives are all sold at 60 to 30% off, which has greatly affected the hard drive market in Huaqiangbei.
Many consumers and retailers saw that the hard drive in Boss Du's hands was so cheap! Then they must go to Boss Du to get the goods.
As soon as other wholesalers heard the news, and the news of the mass production of carbon crystal hard drives, it spread throughout the market.
Everyone was panicking, very afraid that the stock of machine DVDs would fall into their hands.
Everyone has an idea in their mind, if you can't sell it now, you will definitely not be able to sell it in the future.
Or it can be sold in the future, but the price will be lower than now.
What measures have these wholesalers taken?
Of course, just like Boss Du, he sold it at a crazy price.
The sales price of mechanical hard drives has plummeted.
Based on Boss Du's 30% discount, the final actual sales price was even lower than the 30% discount.
The price collapse of mechanical hard drives in Huaqiangbei has caused the price of mechanical hard drives in the entire Xiaguo IT market to fall.
The main reason why this situation occurs is not actually the imbalance between supply and demand.
But when we buy or sell mechanical hard drives in Huaqiangbei, they are not selling them to consumers, and there is an element of speculation in them.
In the past, everyone was optimistic about the development of Xia Guo's computer market, thinking that the number of users would increase and the price of mechanical hard drives would rise.
Now this logic has disappeared. Of course, the hype has skyrocketed and plummeted, just like the situation when everyone was speculating on graphics cards more than 20 years later.
The middleman who originally planned to import mechanical hard drives from American mechanical hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate Western Digital hesitated.
They began to put pressure on upstream merchants to lower prices.
American brands such as Seagate and Western Digital have little interest in Xiaguo's hard drives, which is inherently huge profits.
After all, the sales price of hard drives in the United States and Japan is more than double that of Xia Guo.
These manufacturers are also very optimistic about the development of Xia Guo's IT market. After all, Xia Guo has 1.2 billion people. Even if only 10% of the people can buy computers, there are still 120 million computers.
Based on this calculation, there will be 120 million hard drives that need to be sold, and this does not include the hard drives that everyone will need to buy when they replace their computers in a few years.
The chain reaction in the Xiaguo market shocked manufacturers such as Seagate and Western Digital.
They could not imagine that Xia Guo's carbon crystal hard drive would have such a profound impact on their business.
Seagate's senior management held a meeting overnight and not only obtained the report from the Stanford University Semiconductor Laboratory some time ago, but also obtained the data on hard drive sales during this period.
From a macro perspective, the sales volume of hard drives in the Xiaguo market has not changed much.
But judging from the details, it is only a matter of time before carbon crystal hard drives replace mechanical hard drives.
Seagate, as the world's largest hard drive manufacturer, took immediate measures to deal with the current situation.
The first one is to reduce his profits in Xia Kingdom in order to maintain the market.
Seagate's vision is very vicious, and he can confirm that the current price reduction in the Xiaguo market in the form of hard drive collapse is just a short-term panic move.
After a period of time, the price of hard drives will definitely stabilize within a certain range, but it will definitely be lower than now.
Therefore, Seagate takes the initiative to lower prices and give more profits to sellers to compete with carbon crystal hard drives.
If Seagate's price is 100 yuan cheaper than a carbon crystal hard drive with the same configuration, consumers will hesitate, but what about 200 yuan cheaper?
The second thing is to contact the American Computer Association as soon as possible.
The birth of carbon crystal storage carbon crystal hard drives will hit the entire American IT industry. Seagate believes that relevant industries and companies should have certain countermeasures.
The third thing is to innovate technology as soon as possible.
Either catch up with carbon crystal hard drives as soon as possible so that they can also produce carbon crystal hard drives.
Either update the mechanical hard drive technology as soon as possible and release 120g, 240g or even larger mechanical hard drives as soon as possible to seize the market.
The most important thing is to complete technological innovation as soon as possible in order to regain the market and establish one's dominant position in the market.
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In Jiangzhou, Zhang Bo received a call from a classmate.
Xie Linna has already settled in the United States. This time she went to Jiangzhou for a business trip. She took the initiative to call Zhang Bo and invite him to dinner.