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UPDATE! Shortage of Hard Drives

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UPDATE! Shortage of Hard Drives

By: Joseph F. Kovar CRN

Western Digital late Thursday night said that the rebooting of its Thailand hard drive manufacturing (in the wake of devastating floods in that country), has commenced earlier than expected.

However, Western Digital echoed rival Seagate’s warning from earlier this week that hard drive supplies will remain constrained through at least the first half of 2012.

The company has also moved manufacturing equipment for sliders, a key hard drive component for hard drives, from that facility for decontamination, and expects slider production there to restart during the first quarter of 2012 at about the same time it plans to open a similar facility in Malaysia.

Other Western Digital facilities in Thailand are still under about two feet of water, and refurbishment will commence after they are pumped dry, which the company estimated will take another 10 days.

Rising prices and supply chain uncertainty from the Thailand flooding have already started to adversely impact the storage industry as a whole.

Orange County Computer® is a Microsoft Certified Team that offers cost effective disaster prevention solutions, data storage and data management solutions. We encourage our clients to be proactive in protecting valuable data before ensuing catastrophic data loss.

Contact a member of our Disaster Prevention Team to learn more information about preventing Hard Drive failures, implementing an Offsite Backup Solution and more! Call our offices at 949-699-6619, submit email inquiries to support@orangecountycomputer.com , or visit our site https://www.orangecountycomputer.com to speak to a LIVE Technical Specialist.

Tags: Hard Drive Availability,  Hard Drive cost,  Hard Drive Production,  Hard Drive Shortage,  Prices of Hard Drive,  Thailand Flooding

Written by deborah

Deborah is the Operations Director at Orange County Computer and has been with the company since 2004.

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