Mother Nature hates computer geeks

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Okay, aside from the rather cheesy title...

In case you were planning or thinking about building or buying a computer or something else (like a security DVR) that uses a regular hard disk -

We've seen the prices on those quadruple within the last couple of weeks. About 45% of all the HDD's in the world come from a dozen factories that are in Thailand. Said factories in Thailand are only accessible now via SCUBA or submarine. The rest of the factories are already running at 98% capacity.

So cheap HDD's are a thing of the past, at least second quarter of 2012, is what we're hearing - and it may be longer than that.

Just an FYI, in case you didn't know about this.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Curios]

Wow, good thing i got my new 2 tb HDD a month or so ago, so i can live with thailand being sinked

(sun)

P.S. However a nature could be mad on thailand for some another reason (lalal)

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[NixOlympica]

Bought mine 2 months ago, thou I was thinking about SSD. Guess that will have to wait.

[Echo 7-7]

So, uh.

Who has a SCUBA set I can borrow?

Edit: Or submarine? That would be better.

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There was a sig here, once.

[Bloody Reverb]

Phew.....so i saved my money. Yay...
And i wont need any more "space" since i have around +-12Tb now.

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[Tenacity]

...The rest of the factories are already running at 98% capacity.

Obviously those child laborers arent working hard enough.

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[Toaster]

Ah crap.

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Olivia Sable

[r3vange]

[color=#FFFFFF]Occupy nature

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[CHUNKINATOR]

Crap.. Srsly Crap... I didn't know it was that bad,
I was planning on getting a couple of WD 1tb Caviar Black's for the PC I'm building after Christmas.

Damn.

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[onca]

Holy smokes... I was wondering about that. I noticed the price of HDDs had rocketed, I thought it was the Aussie $ or the frigging European economic fiasco or something.

Poor Thailand, they are the world's nicest people, hopefully their flood situation will resolve soon.