Saturday, October 29, 2011

Hard Drive Shortage due to flooding in Thailand


http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...d-disk-produ/1, http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011...hdd-shortages/

The two links above serves as a shot across the bow. I was in Melrose Mac today in LA, they are saying they will runs short of hard drives, and they have had to raise prices in the last 72 hours, and the price hike will not end there. I've already sent emails to clients letting them know to buy now for their upcoming productions, as they could face higher prices and/or drive shortages all together. I just spoke to the owner of a large LA based server farm, he put in (weeks ago) an order for more than a month worth of inventory for bare enterprise drives, he predicts it will get worse before it gets better.

Sorry my first post in ages, had to be a bit of a downer.

Von