Harddisk prices... going up?

[Ivan Avery Frey]

On 25/10/11 16:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

If I hear another neoconservative quote Ricardo and the Theory of Comparative 
Advantage, I'm going to puke.

Ivan.
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