Harddisk prices... going up?

[Ivan Avery Frey]

On 26/10/11 3:06, Ori Idan wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Slack Rat <slackrat-GANU6spQydw at public.gmane.org
> <mailto:slackrat-GANU6spQydw at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
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>     William Park a écrit profondement:
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>     | 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?
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>     Opportunity knocks
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>     Hard drive prices going up - Thailand+++
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>     Memory prices going up - Japan
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>     Time to open a Canadian Factory or two
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> The problem is labour prices in Canada, actually not only Canada, all the
> western world.
> But if you do open a factory, I will be happy to help :-)

Are wages too high in in the Western World or too low in the rest of the world?

Would you suggest we settle for third world living and working conditions just 
so that we can compete successfully?
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