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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…
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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.…
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Posted June 13, 2012, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
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…
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Posted February 7, 2012, 2:59 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Industry News Breaking News
The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production. All this resulted in hard drive prices shooting through the roof around the end of October as production became more expensive and limited.

With the help of price tracking site Camelegg we've checked on a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months.
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Posted December 19, 2011, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
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.
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Posted December 2, 2011, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
Western Digital has partially restored production at one of its HDD manufacturing plants in Thailand one week ahead of schedule, according to a press release issued yesterday. The company also raised its revenue outlook for the current quarter as a…
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Posted November 22, 2011, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
An arbitrator has ordered Western Digital to pay Seagate a hefty $525 million in damages this week. The feuding drive manufacturers sought private arbitration in Minnesota after Seagate accused Western Digital of coaxing "confidential information and trade secrets" from a…
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Posted November 18, 2011, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
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…
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Posted November 3, 2011, 6:04 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
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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