One might not think that the floods in Thailand would affect memory sales, of all things, but they just might, albeit indirectly. The floods that shut down factories in Thailand crippled the worldwide supply chain of hard disk drive units. Thus, with fewer storage devices to go around, fewer PCs will sell during 2012,...
The latest in predictions about the Thailand floods has been made, and this one is a fairly bleak forecast regarding the personal computer market. There will be much lower PC sales in the first three months of next year because of hard disk drive shortage. Had there not been any floods in Thailand to...
Puget might just be the most uniquely-positioned company in relation to the hard disk drive crisis that came about after the floods in Thailand. Puget thinks it will get off easy and, even if it does have supply issues, it will let customers play a direct role in allowing their systems to come into...
With hard drives skyrocketing in price as their supply dropped, solid state drives are bound to start selling better, but Dell, like mostly everyone else, doesn’t see them as very likely to solve the IT industry’s problems. Apparently, solid state drives are still too expensive, and make up too small a part of the...
Dell had to get creative when word came in about how, soon enough, there won’t be many hard disk drives to go about, but it apparently didn’t get away scot-free. While it was able to act quickly form the start, even before the biggest price jumps came, but the recent conference call with financial...
The impending HDD shortage has already caused some disruption worldwide, but Nidec is back online, which means that motors, at least, won’t be too big a problem anymore. If people don’t know of Nidec very well, it’s because, instead of being an HDD supplier or inventor, it makes HDD parts, which means that it...
The whole Thailand issue may have sparked fears somewhat higher than necessary, so Western Digital stepped up to the microphone and clearly said it hadn’t actually stopped shipping hard disk drives. By now, people keeping track of all the problems hammering at the hard disk drive market will know about the floods in Thailand....
SanDisk issued a press release in which it said that it finished the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 on October 2, with better than average results, to put it lightly. While the recession doesn’t seem to be as bad as it was a couple of years ago, it still hasn’t completely gone away....
