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Good thing I'm stocked up Brink
Report: Brace Yourself for a Hard Drive Shortage
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So everyone run out and buy a couple HDD and then we will have a shortage. Hope the day traders don't hear about this. They will buy them all causing a shortage and price hike and then sell at a big profit.
Jim
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You may be on to something, Jim. Couple of my local big box stores always seem to have an excess of HDs. Went shopping today and at least 50% of the usual in-stock drives were on back order. Coincidence? Or conspiracy?
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My Guess Is That More HDDs Are Sold With PCs
then in the aftermarket.
Though I don't know that for sure.
In any case I expect the big customers like HP, Dell, Levono, Acer, Asus and Apple to get first dibs if there is indeed a shortage.
Most likely the shortage if there is one will be in the aftermarket.
JMO
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Bah good thing i just got 8 2TB WD Green EARX and 5 2TB WD Black for Main pc and server storage and ill be setting up my own family Back up fileserver over net for Documents and pics 250GB each so totaling 41TB give or take
Report: Brace Yourself for a Hard Drive Shortage
Posted: 20 Jun 2011
Read more at: Maximum PC | Report: Brace Yourself for a Hard Drive ShortageOur storage needs aren't shrinking by any means. Games are getting bigger, our music and movies collection keeps growing, we have media players, NAS boxes, and, well, you get the idea. Despite solid state drives taking over as the sexy boot option, we suspect the market for beefy and affordable hard drives will stick around for a long time yet. That said, if you're in need of more storage, you might be better served by pulling the trigger now rather than waiting until the last minute.....
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