Re: Disk Drive Shortage Rumors -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Disk Drive Shortage Rumors
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:43:49 -0500
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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

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