PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives 353
Lucas123 writes "The impact from the monsoonal flooding in Thailand over the past three months is now being felt by users as computer system manufacturers are unable to meet supply needs. Lenovo told its corporate customers this week that is has run out of a number of drives including several types of 7200rpm and 5400rpm HDDs. 'Akin to the hysteria when banks defaulted in the 1930[s], PC orders across the industry are being placed for which HD supply does not exist,' a Lenovo rep wrote to his clients. IDC this week said the HDD shortages that have resulted from the flooding of four major Thailand industrial parks will likely be felt into 2013. Western Digital and Toshiba have been hit the hardest. PC shipments are also expected to fall short by 3.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 due to component supply shortages. Meanwhile, there has been some indication of retail HDD price stabilization, but for some of the most popular hard drives prices continue to soar."
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:5, Funny)
Plus people have cancer, so no one has the right to complain about anything.
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:3, Funny)
My fellow-believer,
Despite the less-than-Christian wording of the title of your comment, I must agree with your overall sentiment. It pains me that during the season of Christ's birth, consumers are complaining of a shortage of a material luxury when there are so many people who lost loved-ones and the basic necessities they need to survive because of the flooding. My prayers go out to those affected and those who wanted Santa to bring them that extra 10TB RAID 0+1 array; may the Lord provide the former with what they need, and may the latter be cured of their addiction to pornography.
Your respectful peer,
Jake
Re:No HHDs = SSDs? (Score:5, Funny)
why, because SSD's float?
(too soon?)
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:5, Funny)
Dont you understand, this is serious! Its TOTALLY worth comparing to the 1930s depression!
Nice summary tho, totally a good comparison. Might want to throw in a comparison to the loss of drives being similar to the loss of lives in the holocaust, for good measure.
Clearly something is wrong here... (Score:5, Funny)
... because just before drive production went offline I finally outfitted my new home server with 9TB of storage for just $420. Pretty much my entire life, it's been that once I go and buy some computer hardware, two weeks (or however long the return period is) later, the price is guaranteed to be cut significantly (or a much better version is released).
Someone needs to check the alignment of the universe.
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What do they expect? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:5, Funny)
My fellow-believer,
Despite the less-than-Christian wording of the title of your comment, I must agree with your overall sentiment. It pains me that during the season of Christ's birth, consumers are complaining of a shortage of a material luxury when there are so many people who lost loved-ones and the basic necessities they need to survive because of the flooding. My prayers go out to those affected and those who wanted Santa to bring them that extra 10TB RAID 0+1 array; may the Lord provide the former with what they need, and may the latter be cured of their addiction to pornography.
Your respectful peer,
Jake
No Christian needs a 10TB RAID0+1 array - Jesus would use RAID6 (with a battery backed caching RAID controller)
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:5, Funny)
What about the people with cancer who lost their home due to flooding, and now can't get a hard drive upgrade. even they aren't allowed to complain? Harsh.
Re:Back in my day . . . (Score:5, Funny)
256MB? Get off my lawn. My first computer did not even have a hard drive.
Damn kids.
Re:Don't bitch. (Score:4, Funny)
We're geeks. Computers are on that list. So back to bitching about the lack of hard drives.
GF (Score:5, Funny)
all i have left in SATA drives is a single 80Gb and that one is going in the new quad i'm building my GF for Xmas. All she does is FB and IM anyway so 80Gb with win 7 HP will be just perfect for her.
Not Linux? Do you just not love her or is this some S+M thing you two are into?