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Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum
- Just when it seemed the hard drive market had fully recovered from the devastating floods that hit Thailand in 2011, the venerable storage media has another threat on its hand: competition from solid state drives. Shipments of PC hard drives…
Thailand flood still inflating hard drive prices after one year
- The Tech Report has taken a detailed look at hard drive prices, revisiting them more than one year after the devastating Thailand floods which stifled mechanical drive production. What their analysis uncovers is likely what storage consumers had been fearing: the vast…
Hard drive shipments expected to reach record level in 2012
- It’s been a tough year for hard drive manufacturers following the devastating floods that crippled production factories in Thailand late last year. The resulting drive shortage was felt worldwide which led to a spike in prices for traditional spinning storage.…
Inflated prices produce record revenue for hard drive makers
- Last week IHS iSuppli published a report on the state of the hard drive market. In it, they chronicled how mechanical drive prices soared following the October 2011 floods that ravaged Thailand where key manufacturing plants exist for Seagate and…
Hard drive prices to remain above pre-flood levels until 2014
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A new report from IHS iSuppli says that mechanical hard drive prices are not expected to return to pre-flood pricing until 2014 despite a rapid recovery process that is in full swing. Hard drive prices skyrocketed following the October 2011 floods...
Seagate and Western Digital announce reduced warranties for hard drives
- Seagate and Western Digital have both announced that they are slashing warranty coverage on many of their consumer-grade hard drives. Seagate drives are taking the hardest hit with the company shaving as much as four years off select drives.
Seagate: Hard drive supplies could be affected through late 2012
- If you were hoping to stock up on cheap storage this holiday shopping season, you might be disappointed. Not only could the recent flooding in Thailand slow hard drive shipments through the fourth quarter of this year, supplies could be…
Flooding causes spike in HDD prices, Asus might run out this month
- The catastrophic flooding in Thailand is expected to cause a drastic shortage of hard drives according to researchers at iSuppli. Some 660,000 Thailand residents are reportedly out of work after the country shuttered 14,000 factories, including facilities that produce hard…
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