Dynamite Data on AppleInsider

December 21st, 2011

Neil Hughes at AppleInsider commented on our analysis of hard drive prices, but took his analysis further and extrapolated across MacBook Pro pricing as well.  Read more at AppleInsider.

New figures from Dynamite Data provided to AppleInsider reveal that prices of traditional spinning hard drives increased between 50 percent and 150 percent in the last quarter as the flooding affected production. In fact, the data shows that e-commerce inventory levels of hard disk drives fell 90 percent in less than one week.

Dynamite Data Featured on ComputerWorld

December 20th, 2011

Using publicly available ecommerce data, we were able to track hard drive inventory levels during the last few months.  ComputerWorld has some interesting analysis on the whole thing!

According to new information from ecommerce tracking site Dynamite Data, the top 50 hard drives on sites such as Newegg.com and Tigerdirect.com, leaped in price by 50% to 150% after the flooding. The price jump was kicked off in October when drive inventory levels plummeted 90% in less than a week, according to Kristopher Kubicki, data architect at Dynamite Data.

Dynamite Data @ Storage Visions

November 9th, 2011

Come check us out this year at Storage Visions 2012 in Las Vegas! We’ll be presenting new metrics including how you can datamine comments, reviews and inventory levels to get analysis on what’s going on in the storage industry.  Oh and by the way, we did all our analysis on SSDs which is really cool.

As a result of new technologies that track multiple metrics about all products, trends are emerging that were heretofore not visible to manufacturers. This session will expose some of those interesting trends especially about user sentiment based on aggregate ecommerce ratings and reviews of attendees products. As a result of new technologies that track multiple metrics about all products, trends are emerging that were heretofore not visible to manufacturers. This session will expose some of those interesting trends especially about user sentiment based on aggregate ecommerce ratings and reviews of attendees products.

Using Commodity SSDs as Cheap Cache

October 26th, 2011

Without SSDs, we couldn’t process some of the billions of data points we use for our analysis.  Recently we worked with OCZ Technology to use a bunch of off-the-shelf drives to cache our SQL and application layers.

The results?  Totally Awesome

“Disk I/O is the fundamental bottleneck of any data heavy business,” delcared Kristopher Kubicki, Chief Architect at Dynamite Data. “We could not scale without reductions in storage latency, and the best way to get that today is with OCZ SSDs.”

Solid-State Society: Tougher Competition… Higher Prices?

February 14th, 2011

As all facets of technology begin to transition from mechanical devices to solid state storage, industry experts expect the cost of these devices to fall with economies of scale.  But is this really the case?  Our analysis of retail solid-state disks (SSDs) reveals that only a small portion of the industry is benefitting from new competition, while high densities have actually gone up in price per gigabyte over the last year.

Using our proprietary web extraction technology, we collected the cart price of all SSD drives available at top tier ecommerce merchants, updated multiple times per day, through the course of 2010.  We define top tier merchants as vendors that have greater rating than an 8.0 on resellerratings.com and carry their own inventory.

We segmented all SATA SSD hard drives available in the United States into three categories: high density, mid-density and low density.  For 2010, we defined all drives under 100GB, inclusive, as low-density.  100GB to 200GB exclusive marks the mid-range and all devices of 200GB or higher the high-density. All drives were classified by their box description, as opposed to the post-formatted size.

All classes of NAND technology were subsequently combined for the purpose of this analysis.  That is to say, we treated SLC and MLC technology the same.  Our data included 9 manufacturers over 185 separate SKUs at 83 online merchants for the 366 day period from January 27, 2010 through January 27, 2011.

We first determined the number of buy pages for all SSD products per segment.  That is, we counted the number of occurrences of each individual product at each merchant.  Refurbished and bundled kits were omitted from this set. The number of placements quadrupled across all segments in 2010.

Using the industry standard practice of calculating the cost per gigabyte, we then averaged the cost per gigabyte per day, per segment.  As low-density devices began to saturate the market in 2010, per-gigabyte costs fell more than 40% from $7.80 per gigabyte to $4.34 per gigabyte.

Despite the generally accepted maxim that greater competition will reduce prices in the marketplace, Dynamite Data discovered that the price per gigabyte took a significant increase at higher densities.

Relatedly, the price per GB for mid-density SSDs has remained nearly flat over the same period, while high-density SSDs have actually crept up in price per gigabyte by more than 60% since the beginning of last year, despite an increased penetration of their products in the marketplace as more manufacturers and online merchants enter.

While it is unclear what is driving this trend for high-density SSDs, the dramatic fall in price for the low density products is likely compressing margins and creating an increasingly commoditized market. Those who have a cost advantage in resale or manufacturing may find an opportunity for increased revenue by moving farther up market where prices appear to be falling less quickly (or not at all).

About Us:
Dynamite Data delivers the most comprehensive and timely ecommerce data in the world on technology and consumer electronics. Our proprietary web extraction technology monitors current pricing and product availability data on almost nine million products across more than 600 U.S. and International online merchants. Over the last four years we have assembled a database of more than 140 million actual buy pages and we continue to extract and update tens of millions of buy pages each day. Accurate current and historical price, availability and other key competitive information is delivered to our customers through our SaaS Channel Monitor dashboard interface or through our API feed directly into their business intelligence systems. Our customers include hard-drive and semiconductor manufactures and some of the largest and most visible e-commerce retailers in North America. Contact us today to find out how we can help take your business to the next level: sales@dynamitedata.com.

Dynamite Data Featured on PCMag’s Tech Saver

December 2nd, 2010

Mark Hachman at PC Magazine wrote a few words about Dynamite Data in a recent Tech Saver article.

Dynamite Data Featured on Best Buy Remix

October 29th, 2010

We’ve been partners with Best Buy’s Remix team from the beginning – making sure you get every deal in real time. Learn more about how Dynamite does it on Joe Zwack’s blog.

Dynamite Data Introduces MAP Enforcement

March 31st, 2010

Dynamite Data’s global pricing policy enforcement tool set available in our flagship product, Channel Monitor, now includes Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) enforcement for all clientele. We understand the importance of making sure retailers honor MAP. Using standard means, however, it can be next to impossible for a manufacturer to keep track of its products across thousands of online merchants in real time. The solution is Channel Monitor’s MAP Report and Instant Alert feature.

Thousands of MAP prices can be input at once. After that, the powerful Channel Monitor interface automatically scans thousands of online merchants for any MAP violations. Once it detects a violation, an alert is instantly sent to the client. The alert includes the offending retailer’s name, time of the violation, price and a screenshot as proof of the breach. We can also keep track of repeat offenders.

Channel Monitor’s MAP enforcement is extremely effective and proven to work. A Fortune 500 drive manufacturer averaged 540 MAP violations daily before using DD Map Enforcement. They were able to all but eliminate MAP violations after only two weeks of using Channel Monitor MAP Enforcement.

Dynamite Data Passes TRUSTe Validation

August 20th, 2009

Dynamite Data TRUSTe Certification
For all you tin-foil-hatters: dynamitedata.com has just passed TRUSTe’s rigorous privacy certification policy. You can view our full privacy policy at any time, at http://www.dynamitedata.com/privacypolicy.php

Ars Technica Picks Dynamite Data for Channel Data

August 11th, 2009

Jon Stokes at Ars Technica had a problem: he couldn’t find any of the new devices Intel assured him he could buy. We were able to provide him with an exhaustive data set detailing when and where these devices were available. Click here to view his analysis.

Looking for an authority on ecommerce pricing and availability? Chance are, we’ve got the data you need, so ping us and we’ll get you taken care of!