Frankly unbelievable news - UK retailer 'Scan' is rationing HDD sales after recent flooding in Thailand destroyed much of the world's manufacturing plants: http://www.scan.co.uk/info/wd/page1 QUOTE: Devastating floods have crippled Thailand, affecting many areas Domestic & Industrial, and as a result the majority of the…
yeah hard drives have gone up constantly since the flooding began. They are starting to hit insane prices. Might be time to pick up that SSD drive fellas since those are made in a different location. My guess is if these factories are completely destroyed and the nature of how hard drives are made it might be some time…
~ Not really 'unbelievable'. The prices of hard drives shot up pretty much overnight last week. I don't people realise how much of Thailand is getting wiped out as we speak. I get the impression (especially in American news) that's its almost ignored. Once it hit Bangkok 2weeks ago and devoured all the factories it was…
~ News focus was on Gadaffi and #Occupy protests as they were at a similar time the floods began. The bloodlust for the Libyan leader outweighed the a natural disaster, but I think people will be freaking out soon enough now they realise Hard Drives are pretty much gonna be x10 the cost they once were. .
Wow. It's unbelievable or at least very surprising that a whole sector of industry could be decimated so completely like this. Another news piece here: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/11/07/hard-disk-component-supply-could-take-years/1 It doesn't seem to have been very visible (news wise) outside tech websites.…