Harddisk prices... going up?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:40:35PM -0700, William Park 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?

Toshiba and WD plants in Thailand are sitting with 1m flood water on
the factory floor.  Production capacity is down about 60% for both.

The suppliers next door have the same issue.  Lots of production equipment
is probably destroyed at this point.

Seagate is still working it seems, but the expectation is about a 30%
drop in supply for the quarter, so about 50 million drives short of
normal production.

Apparently Thailand manufactures almost all hard drives in the world.

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Len Sorensen
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