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You better start believing in miracles; Thai flood-caused disk drive shortages are driving up disk prices beyond flash. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers brings us the good news after talking to OCZ CEO Ryan Petersen on an investor call. Rakers says: "Recent HDD/SSD distribution indicates an average 20-25 per cent increase …

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  1. unreggi

    Miracle??

    "You better start believing in miracles..."

    Woot! Woot!

    A flood that has killed over 500 people? Is that the miracle to which you refer?

    You want to rethink that triumphalist horse you rode in on?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Good News ...How?

    HDD is now *even more expensive* than SDD.

    There. Rewrote your entire story for you.

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  3. Christian Berger

    Data recovery

    One of the big pluses of SSD is of course that when they are broken, they are quite simple to recover. A data recovery company will simply de-solder the chips and put them into a reader. This requires far less skill than getting the data off a broken HDD.

    So for longer time storage SSD might already have a very good point.

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