Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @07:17PM 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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Phew , I mean I was thinking of the 600 dead... by Viol8 · 2011-12-20 21:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

.. but hey, so long as hard drive prices are ok, then whats the problem?.
Really editors, get a fscking sense of perspective.
Re:Perspective by Viol8 · 2011-12-20 22:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"In this huge world with 7 billion people, every 3 minutes, about 600 die. (On average about 3 per second)."
So will you take that dispassionate viewpoint if your wife/gf/mother/father dropped dead suddenly?
"And our population growth is so fast that the 600 dead had been replaced (sorry for the dry factual choice of words) before the floods even hit the news."
So what , its still a tragic event for the people involved.
"But the harddrive problem affects the world, albeit in a modest way, for months"
Oh BS. The world will still turn if little johnny can't upgrade his HD to keep more porn on. Any serious business users will have plenty of drives in store anyway.