Red Squirrel
[H]F Junkie
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2009
- Messages
- 9,211
From that story...
Worldwide total Q4 hard drive production is expected to be about 120 million units, down from 176 million in Q3.
That makes it sound like its not that big a problem.
No kidding. I figured they were basically down to not producing any at all, and just trying to make the current stock last as long as possible. If they're still producing like 70% of normal production I don't get why the prices are going up this much. It's not like there are none being produced. They can probably bring in the currently unemployed people from the down plants to work the other plants and just run those plants longer to make up for it.
This is clearly price fixing by the manufacturers to take advantage of people's panic.