Kobe earthquake all over again
But then it was for DRAM, not HDDs.
The production of hard disk drives is nearing full capacity after flooding last year in Thailand sent shockwaves through the supply chain, with output set to reach around 80 per cent of pre-flood levels. A Digitimes report, citing industry sources, claimed that production would increase to somewhere between 140 and 145 million …
"Digitimes’ source predicted that HDD prices would probably rise from 30 to 40 per cent from pre-flood levels"
I'm not sure I understand this statement. As far as I can see, prices already seem to have come back down, well below a 40% premium above the original price level. Are they saying they'll go back up again? This seems unlikely.
One idea I had was when the insurance paid out on a house, it fixed the damage on the condition that a third floor was put on, and the then ground floor converted to a basement.
This way, there'd be no furniture damage next time.
The same is true of Disk Drive factories methinks. Put all the personnel, business analysts, and marketing types downstairs.
Nah, that won't ever happen. They'll never see the light in the fact that they could recoup their dev costs faster by lowering prices. I would actually be interested in getting rid of my main storage drive where I install games with a 4x256GB RAID 0 but the cost is higher than getting a low end NAS with traditional drives at the moment.
I wish SSDs came down in price. They have many, many, many advantages that could revolutionize enterprise hardware but at the price, one cannot justify the cost. Can you imagine a massive infiniband-connected, 45 drives RAID 5?
You would still get complaints about speed and snide remarks how their home $300 POS computer is faster but we have LARTs to deal with that.