Western Digital executives expect hard drive production, which took a hit thanks to flooding in Thailand last year, to return to normal levels in the second quarter of 2012, reaching retailers some time in the following quarter. Prior to the floods, Thailand was home to multiple hard drive manufacturing plants, including the single largest drive spindle manufacturing facility in the world. ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by ThePastor:
There has been tons of info about this shortage...
But no info about any new tech that will increase drive capacity.
Drive capacity has increased every year for the past ten years or more... until now.
I smell a rat.
Originally posted by Blessedon:Economics is another form of statistics. Both forms use mathematics as a logical basis to prove their respective platforms, to which the proposed 'infallible' numbers can be made to say anything to prove a debating a point. None of which are lies. Just truths of that particular beholder's. So let's not start this court of urination, tour de force please.
Conspiracy theorists seldom understand economics. So, you are not to be blamed for "smelling a rat"...that isn't there.
Originally posted by blueboy09:A desert 'would' be great, but the first smattering of a sprinkle one afternoon & the same thing would happen because the corporate nut sack bean counters wouldn't spend the proper money for irrigation. Because, "who needs irrigation in a desert?"
New flash: to the people who build these factories, why not put it somewhere where it doesn't rain 24/7? Since Thailand is most a tropical climate, wouldn't it make a little sense to put it in a more temperature environment and a little higher in altitude? Less exposure to moisture and flooding is ALWAYS a plus!
Originally posted by blueboy09:You build factories where you have cheap labor and stable political systems. Most places on earth are vulnerable to one kind of natural disaster or another.
New flash: to the people who build these factories, why not put it somewhere where it doesn't rain 24/7? Since Thailand is most a tropical climate, wouldn't it make a little sense to put it in a more temperature environment and a little higher in altitude? Less exposure to moisture and flooding is ALWAYS a plus!
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