HDD Price Update: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices, 3 Months Later

New submitter jjslash writes "The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months."

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First world problem

[nimbius]

sure, hard drives, its tech news, and its the only thing we seem to worry about. let me contrast the headline with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami

shashdot never reported this; the death toll was hundreds of times larger. slashdot didnt give a shit because it wasnt tech news; i sadly respect that. the next time we decide to herald an article about a recent natural disaster that affects our ability to store pirated music and porn, lets omit the illusion that we pretend to give a shit about human life.

might i suggest instead that we crawl out of our basements, go to the park, read a book, take a bike ride, or go for a walk to calm our nerves over the recent lack of practically free hard disks for sale at the expense of human rights and fair wages and in the support of despotic regimes the likes of which we never learn of in the west. That is, until an 'insert-region-here' spring helps to reinforce capitalist/democratic norms.