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Flooding in Thailand will deter hard drive market through Q3
By Rachel King | February 10, 2012, 9:31am PST
Summary: Following floods in Thailand, analysts predict that we?ll see higher prices throughout the hard drive shortage through at least the third quarter of 2012.
The flooding disasters in Thailand that started last year didn?t have overwhelming impacts on December quarterly earnings for most hard drive disk manufacturers, but that is surely going to change going forward in 2012.
A complete recovery of production won?t happen for months, according to new research from IHS iSuppli.
IHS storage analyst Fang Zhang explained in the report that a recovery for HDD manufacturers has already gotten underway and is expected to ramp up progressively each quarter. Nevertheless, supply and shipments are not expected to return to typical annual growth until at least the third quarter of 2012.
Thus, we are going to see inflated prices for hard drives as most inventory will be very low, and this will likely be the only way that hard drive manufacturers will be able to make it through this crisis.
More facts at:
http://www.zdnet.com...hrough-q3/69181
By Rachel King | February 10, 2012, 9:31am PST
Summary: Following floods in Thailand, analysts predict that we?ll see higher prices throughout the hard drive shortage through at least the third quarter of 2012.
The flooding disasters in Thailand that started last year didn?t have overwhelming impacts on December quarterly earnings for most hard drive disk manufacturers, but that is surely going to change going forward in 2012.
A complete recovery of production won?t happen for months, according to new research from IHS iSuppli.
IHS storage analyst Fang Zhang explained in the report that a recovery for HDD manufacturers has already gotten underway and is expected to ramp up progressively each quarter. Nevertheless, supply and shipments are not expected to return to typical annual growth until at least the third quarter of 2012.
Thus, we are going to see inflated prices for hard drives as most inventory will be very low, and this will likely be the only way that hard drive manufacturers will be able to make it through this crisis.
More facts at:
http://www.zdnet.com...hrough-q3/69181
