The reason for a rise in price of hard drives

The catastrophe in Thailand not only killed more 350 people and deprived habitation hundred thousand people, but also made its own changes to the infrastructure of the country and its capital, Bangkok. Flooded Bangkok airport, which deprived the Thai capital of communication with the outside world, flooded roads and communication lines, but the main calamity is, that flooded more 14 thousands of businesses, including representative offices of large European, American and Japanese enterprises. 660 thousands of people left without work, and all over the world there were branches, related to the production of computer components, electronic components of which were produced mainly in Thailand. The crash was the cause sharp rise in price of hard drives worldwide!
Such major manufacturers, как Western Digital, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba are now experiencing a very large problems in the production of hard disk drives. Even South Korea's Samsung, whose factories are located in their home territory, experiencing similar problems, because some important parts for Samsung hard drives are created exclusively in factories in Thailand. The rise in price of hard drives It applies not only to hard drives for desktop computers: rose and portable HDD (usb hard drives), and Hard Drives for Laptops and other interior and removable drives. Buy Hard Drive now not so easy!

Deficiency of hard drives

However, in the warehouses of retailers and suppliers of all levels, a significant stock of goods is always stored., which should be enough for 2-3 of the week, and sometimes 1,5-2 month Uniform Sales. Why are hard drives now rose? Everything is very simple! The reasons for this are two:
1. As soon as the competent and extremely cynical people realized, that the catastrophe in Thailand will lead to deficiency HDDs worldwide, they became buy hard drives in large quantities for all your money, with the purpose of selling in a month or two more expensive.
2. Retailers, learning about the termination of deliveries, but see neugasayushtiy, and even an increasing demand for the first reason, also truncated the chip and lifted the prices higher nowhere. B USA (most savvy country in terms of making money on someone else's grief) the price of the model HDD Samsung SpinPoint F3 capacity 1 ТБ за три дня возросли с 60 prior to 110$ (rost83%). And this, experts are convinced, far from the limit!
Already felt shortage of hard disk drives in shops, What will be next?

Will the hard drives go up further?

Of course there are! Furthermore, they will soon be gone and more from the shelves of all stores, both real, and virtual! Buy a hard drive it will be possible only for resellers big money, or in some seedy online store, money no less rabid, but with a guarantee (although some of the guarantees can be discussed, if the factories are?)
I am more than confident, that in Russia 83% will stop and rise in price of hard drives can make 150%, 200% and even 1000% !
The next stop will be the price lawlessness laptops and computers ready. Both are inside HDD, that is why scarcity and high price the latter will lead to higher prices for assembled model.
If you anticipate more, then the wave can come to all kinds of online services offering to store information on their servers. Since they are constantly increasing the amount of disk space available to users, purchasing more and new hard drives, at that moment, when the supply of new data storage stops, they simply will be forced to completely or upgrade to a paid mode, or severely limit the volume, available to the user free of charge, or raise prices for premium accounts. maybe, they will take all actions at once.
For storage can use a flash memory (stick on 128 Gigabyte has long been there free sale), the possible increase in demand for various memory cards, USB flash drives and SSD drives, which are produced in factories in Korea, China and even the USA. And for this rise in price could reach out and increase in prices for mobile devices with built-in memory: smartphones, communicators, tablets, GPS-navigators, and other electronic trifle.

Глобальные последствия катастрофы – когда подешевеют жесткие диски?

After the flood (and it should have ever come to an end) Thai companies are engaged in the production recovery. This is not a quick deal, not cheap, and the threat of repeated flooding should lead to the idea of ​​transferring them to other countries or equipping them with disaster-resistant capabilities. All this again would lead to a rise in price of the final product. When the hard drives will appear in stores, made after the disaster, they will be much more expensive than the, we could buy more in September 2011 year. Supports the recent deficit, the price will grow up in every step of the way to user и людей больше всего уже будет интересовать вопрос не “Why more expensive hard drives“, а “When hard disks become cheaper“.

How much more expensive hard drives

As of 29.10.2011 the cost of hard drives The next:

Compared with prices for hard drives in September 2011 year, it can be seen, they rose by an average of 172%. And the most popular model rose by more than 200% (ie three times), and less popular, eg, trehterabaytnye screws, only 57%, that is, one and a half times.

Diagram comparison of prices for HDDs

Where the solid line shows current prices for hard drives (29.10.2011), а пунктирная – prices for hard drives in September 2011.
We will see, что будет через недельку…
And after a week of information crisis market hard drives I have come to the same media:

Deficiency of hard drives will only increase

Source: http://stevsky.ru/tsitati-i-novosti/pochemu-podorozhali-zhestkie-diski