Pada minggu lepas aku ada tulis dalam status update aku yang mengatakan bahawa harga hardisk akan melonjak naik disebabkan oleh krisis banjir di Thailand sana, dan pada hari ini, sebuah tech blog bernama Dvice menyatakan perkara yang sama jugak mengenainya.

Western Digital, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba are all facing direct production issues as a result of the flooding, and even Korean companies such as Samsung are having trouble getting the specific components that they need to build their own drives, like a motor — responsible for spinning the disc in hard disc drives. Most customers have about two weeks of inventory, and distributors may have an additional two weeks, but beyond that, things are looking gloomy. On Apple’s earnings call this week, CEO Tim Cook said that he’s “virtually certain there will be an overall industry shortage of disk drives as a result of the disaster.”

Over the last two or three days, I’ve watch prices on the drive I’ve been looking at for a new PC build (a 1TB Samsung SpinPoint F3, if you’re curious) skyrocket from $60 to $110 to completely out of stock most places. As people start to worry, demand will increase, and since there’s not going to be any new supply for weeks (maybe even months), things may very well get frantic as soon as current stock runs out.

Sumber: Dvice

Dari sebuah lagi sumber yang boleh dipercayai, kilang mereka di Thailand itulah yang sebernanya merupakan yang utama, dan kilang hardisk di Malaysia pada ketika ini sedang menghadapi kesulitan dalam pengeluaran mereka.

Aku mengambil perkara ini serius kerana aku mungkin akan membeli beberapa hardisk baru akan datang, dan kepada rakan-rakan di luar sana, jika anda terfikir anda ingin beli hardisk (maybe portable), beli sekarang sebelum terlewat, atau anda akan samada membayar harga yang lebih dari kebiasaannya, ataupun tiada stok dalam pasaran.