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Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum

Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum
  • Posted May 7, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • 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

Thailand flood still inflating hard drive prices after one year
  • Posted November 9, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • 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

Hard drive shipments expected to reach record level in 2012
  • Posted October 1, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • 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.…

Hard drive prices to remain above pre-flood levels until 2014

Hard drive prices to remain above pre-flood levels until 2014
  • Posted June 8, 2012, 8:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • 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...

HDD supply to recover by Q3 2012, prices to remain high

HDD supply to recover by Q3 2012, prices to remain high
  • Posted February 14, 2012, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • Echoing concerns from various hard drive manufacturers, market research firms IHS iSuppli and Coughlin Associates are predicting that HDD inventories will not be back to normal until the third quarter of this year and prices will likely remain inflated at…

Panasonic predicts record $10 billion annual loss

Panasonic predicts record $10 billion annual loss
  • Posted February 3, 2012, 8:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has revised its annual net loss forecast to a record ¥780 billion ($10.2 billion) in response to a year that has seen the firm battle two massive natural disasters, as well as a slower economy and…

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