As we reported earlier , due to flooding in Thailand Western Digital had to stop work on the production of hard disks. A similar decision was be taken by Toshiba, and another major supplier of HDD, Seagate, gave a formal statement in which it stated that the company-owned factories in Thailand were is good state . However, the provision of essential supplies for HDD components are limited, and plans to release HDD for the fourth quarter of 2011 will be broken.
Assocaite believe that the hard drive industry will not recover soon from the disaster. In Thailand, most based enterprises manufacturing various components for drives have been forced to cease operations because of the factory was covered with water, and those factory that are not affected by the water directly, can not function normally because of disruptions in the supply of electricity and traffic jams . Related Products :
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