Hard drive manufacturing affected
Friday 18th November at 09:36 am by Sam Francis
To hit the news this week was the expected significant impact on hard drive manufacturing due to the record flooding conditions in Thailand. Supplies around the world will be affected and prices are expected to soar. One drive manufacturer, Western Digital, is completely under water-resulting in approximately 32,400,000 fewer drives in the fourth quarter alone. Compounding this crisis is the fact that Nidec, the manufacturer of the motors used by nearly every hard drive manufacturer, is also having to completely shut down. Thus, a critical component is no longer available to other HDD manufacturers. We will keep you posted.
