Re: Disk Drive Shortage Rumors

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep. At least 25% of world hard drive production is off line due to 
flooding in Thailand I think.  I saw pictures of every major HD 
manufacturers plants with water half way up the doors. Since these are 
pretty clean facilities (well normally....) they will be off line 6 
months or more.  Acer says they'll be out of drives for systems this 
month. Some retailers are saying 'one to a customer'.  IBM has indicated 
"We have backup suppliers but then so do most manufacturers. So we 
recommend purchasing sooner rather than later."   And of course it's 4th 
quarter.... :-)

 - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 11/15/2011 6:22 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:
> We have had a couple of clients contact us regrading rumors of a disk drive
> shortage early next year. Anyone else hear this and know anything about it?
>
> Thanks