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Hard Drive Shortage Relief Coming In Q1 2012

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-alka-seltzer dept.

MojoKid writes "According to new reports [note: source article at DigiTimes], global HDD production capacity is getting ready to increase to 140-145 million units in the first quarter of 2012, or about 80 percent of where it was prior to when the floods hit Thailand manufacturing plants. HDD production was sitting around 175 million units in the third quarter of 2011 before the floods, after which time it quickly dropped to 120-125 million units. Since then, there's been a concerted effort to restore operations to pre-flood levels."

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  1. Hey, now... by Lose · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your average Granny-user remains clueless and storing gigs of uncompressed bitmaps on their system.

    It's not all their fault, really. MSPaint doesn't have JPEG support in Windows 98.

  2. Re:Market pressures. by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyway, how is one supposed to be "efficient" with regards to JPG, MP3, and other highly-compressed file formats?

    You can recover up to 50% of your drive space by switching your collection over to midget-pr0n.

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  3. Re:Market pressures. by sjwt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh sweet, let me know what late 2012 levels are(will be?), I'm looking to upgrade then and do not want to be ripped off!

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