The prices of hard drives are expected to start next year, their highest point reach. Cause of the huge rise in prices, the floods in Thailand. The Asian country after China, the largest hdd exporter.
According to Digitimes, the production is not until the beginning of next year be fully resumed. The site bases this on information from Taiwanese componentenproducenten. Who claim that the suppliers in Thailand have to contend with severe damage and therefore have difficulty to get the production to resume.
The average price of a hard drive was in the last few weeks with a few tens of percent increase. Research Tweakers.net it appears that in certain cases the prices have even doubled. It is expected that only after the first quarter of next year, the elevation decreases. It is striking that the prices of external hard drives so far increased less. In the Pricewatch is, in many cases, an external drive is significantly cheaper than a separate instance with the same storage capacity.
The prices of traditional hard drives became previous years, it is in a free fall. The huge price drops were due to the floods in Thailand in the past few weeks, however, offset. Include Western Digital, the largest manufacturer of hard drives what numbers are concerned, a large part of its factories in Thailand. The company assumes in the meantime, measures to lower production screws: it captures his production with an increase of the production in factories in other countries.
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