Harddisk prices... going up?

[Christopher Browne]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:40 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I was looking to buy a 1TB disk, and I noticed that the price of harddisks
> in general went up by 60% or so.  What gives?

Apparently, manufacture of crucial portions of hard drives has
shifted, to a considerable extent, to parts of Thailand that recently
experienced severe flooding.

http://news.yahoo.com/thailand-flooding-smacks-hard-drive-industry-194036552.html
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