In case you haven’t noticed, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become much more expensive lately due to extreme flooding near Bangkok, Thailand, where both Western Digital and Toshiba were struck hard. Seagate apparently wasn’t touched by the floods, but unfortunately many of the components it needs for HDD manufacturing were hit hard by the flooding.
Windows Secrets has a great article titled “What you can do about soaring hard-drive prices“ by Woody Leonhard that provides much more info than found elsewhere.
Another article from ComputerWorld titled “Hard drive shortage expected to hurt consumers most.”
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