Recent flooding in Thailand has brought the computer industry to its knees. Over 60% of all the worlds Hard Disk Drives are produced in Thailand, and with factorys underwater production has all but come to a halt.
Current projections show normal exports should resume late in Q1 2012. During this time we can only expect cost's of drives to rocket as they become more and more scarce. In the two months since the flooding started, we have seen between 1-200% increase in costs as well as volume limitations on quantitys available.
To show the extent of the damage, we have some images from the Western Digital plant. (Western Digital are one of the worlds leading Hard Drive producers, and make drives on behalf of many other huge brand names!)
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