[ale] HDD prices to spike - flooding in Thailand

arxaaron arxaaron at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 13:14:54 EDT 2011


On 2011/10/31, at 10:38 , Rich Faulkner wrote:

> Don't know if any of you have been following this but the
> flooding in Thailand has shutdown manufacturing of a
> significant part of the HDD industry.  I'm seeing price spikes
> on HDD's and indications are it's going to get worse.
>   Street talk is that it may be May or June before Western
> Digital recovers from the losses due to flooding:
>
> http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/miscellaneous/thailand-floods-to-significant-impact-wd
> Thailand Floods to Significantly Impact HDD Industry
>
> Prices in some cases have doubled already.  If you need
> drives you better grab them before they're either gone or
> too expensive to purchase...
>
> Rich in Lilburn

Smells like a huge case of fear monger marketing to me
(corporape amuika at it's shiny best...)

The profiteering prices will only be gouging the gullible
people who panic.  The smart money will just wait it out
go back to buying hard drives after the fear inflated bubble
has popped.

peace
aaron




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