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Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides

Posted by Soulskill on from the dollars-and-bytes dept.

New submitter yeszomgpony writes "For the first time since the Thailand flooding, hard drive prices are finally starting to decrease. The price jump was kicked off in October when drive inventory levels plummeted 90% in less than a week. From the article: 'Over the past few weeks, hard drive prices have leveled off and have begun to drop slowly, according to Dynamite's data. "For first time, less than week after Western Digital's first [fabrication plant] went back on line, drive inventory began increasing at both distributors and ecommerce sites, and index prices began coming down a little too," Kubicki said. IDC has predicted that hard disk drive supply shortages in the wake of Thailand flooding would affect consumers, computer system manufacturers and corporate IT shops into 2013.'"

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  1. Re:its bullshit by jhoegl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait wait wait... so you are telling me
    Event...
    Inflate fears based on event...
    ????
    Profit

    Holy shit... I could make billions! Quick, someone turn off a pipeline somewhere....

  2. Where else do our parts come from? by identity0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Someone should do a article or investigation into all the obscure places our hardware comes from, especially concentrations where most of one type comes from a small area.

    We only ever seem to hear about these places when something goes wrong.

    Remember that time in the '90s when a Taiwanese RAM factory caught fire, and it turned out to be a big chunk of world RAM output? Sent prices spiking for a while.

    Conversely, it's surprising how little the Japanese tsunami affected the tech world. I guess their industries were concentrated further south.

    1. Re:Where else do our parts come from? by qualityassurancedept · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Because in the UK they have LAWS that are enforced by professional stewards of the public good... and that makes for a crappy business environment where people actually have rights and pay taxes and expect decent treatment etc etc. The truly wonderful thing about building facilities in far away places is that all those things that most people in the West take for granted are merely optional and every legal problem can be solved by means of bribes.

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      if your life is such a big joke then why should I care?
  3. Re:Perspective by captainpanic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can't beat the "what if that was your own family" argument. You win. ;-)

    But as a last remark (yes, I want a -1 flamebait).: From your "perspective", do you ever discuss anything other than dead people?

  4. Genghis Khaaaa aaa a a aan by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My only guess is that people were hording.

    Riding round on horses terrorizing people?

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."