Massive HDD price rises to come

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Shortages caused by the recent, devastating floods in Thailand will have a long-term effect on the storage market, writes Alexandre Mesguich

The floods in Thailand have already had an impact on the supply of hard disk drives (HDD). Distributors were slow to react as resellers took immediate advantage of HDD shortages, with sell-through ...

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