Hard drive market under threat of significant decline due to flooding in Thailand

If you need a hard drive, then it is best to purchase it right now, because in the near future, hard drives will either become more expensive, or some of their models will disappear for a while from the market. And it can happen that, and another, and within three months. The fact is that in Thailand, the majority of enterprises that produced hard drives and components for them were flooded.

Companies such as Western Digital, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba now have very big problems in the production of hard drives. And even Samsung is experiencing similar problems, since some important parts for Samsung hard drives are created where? That's right, in factories in Thailand. No factory - no parts - no hard drives. Here is a very simple and very unpleasant dependence for many of us.
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Immediately after certain regions of Thailand were flooded, almost no one (except for the management of the companies whose enterprises suffered) did not think about what the IT industry would expect in the near future. And then suddenly it turned out that because of the flood, most of the factories where hard drives are made do not work, and it will be very difficult to restore them. Now retailers and “surviving” warehouses of hard disk manufacturers are enough, they will last about 2-3 weeks with current demand.

And then begin the problems that have already been mentioned above. And this is not a rumor, not a speculation with the aim of "making it heavy." Everything is very sad. Prices are already rising. For example, in the US, the cost of a Samsung SpinPoint F3 drive per 1 TB has risen from $ 60 to $ 110 in just a few days. In most stores, this model of hard drive is no longer at all. But this is just one example, over time such situations will become more and more.

Disks will disappear from sale, and the rest will go up. So, if you intended to buy a new hard drive, or a computer, or upgrade your PC, better do it now.

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