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WD HDD Industry Will Be Supply Constrained Due to Thailand Flooding
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: krumm on October 31, 2011, 08:15:38 PM ---I am thinking about picking up a wd 1tb black(old version 32mb cache) locally for $120 not including tax which is still high but not $200 like amazon and newegg. I really do need the space.
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Why not consider a spinpoint for the time being?
Lupin:
Local prices for HDD here barely changed. Prices here are closer to the MSRP than online deals though. Scratch that. Prices are a few tens of $ lower than MSRP.
I read this from a thread on HDBits:
--- Quote ---Hitachi
Although Hitachi’s factories are not under water, access to them is very limited. Their main motor supplier is currently not producing any products in Thailand, but Hitachi is hoping to move production to the Philippines. They have limited finished goods, and are currently not shipping anything.
Seagate
Seagate’s factories and suppliers seem to be the least affected; however, their output has been reduced by 25% this quarter, and this is coupled with increased demand due to shortages from other HDD manufacturers. Currently we have no visibility on the availability of some products, but very limited availability on others.
Toshiba
Toshiba’s mobile HDD factory is under water and not producing at the moment, and we do not know when this will improve. Enterprise drives are not significantly affected; however, they are experiencing increased demand due to shortages from other HDD manufacturers.
Western Digital
The Western Digital Thailand factory is still under water and cannot produce drives. Their production estimate is currently at half their output capacity and this is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future. We have no visibility as to when we will receive any products at this stage.
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Images of the flooding can be found here and here
Freedom Kira:
Looks like prices at Memory Express (Canada) haven't changed much either, maybe about $10 increases? They have, however, imposed a 2 HDD per customer policy for the time being.
Newegg's prices, on the other hand, have shot up significantly.
Those are some pretty intense images.
krumm:
I read earlier that oems should not be affected this year from the shortage, but ASUS is running out of hard drives.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/01/1235201/asus-running-out-of-hard-disks
--- Quote from: fohfoh on November 01, 2011, 03:26:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: krumm on October 31, 2011, 08:15:38 PM ---I am thinking about picking up a wd 1tb black(old version 32mb cache) locally for $120 not including tax which is still high but not $200 like amazon and newegg. I really do need the space.
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Why not consider a spinpoint for the time being?
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Can't find them. For some reason local places don't seem to carry them.
dogsinafen:
Prices have gone up on ncix and newegg... not impressed...
Guess I'll be waiting a few more months before building my file server... sure as hell not buying 9 drives while they are this high in price.
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