{"id":2133,"date":"2011-10-24T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:07:18","slug":"thailand-floods-lead-to-massive-shortage-of-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/thailand-floods-lead-to-massive-shortage-of-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Floods Lead to Massive Shortage of Hard Drives."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/Computer-Drives.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2134 alignright\" title=\"computer-hard-drives-in-stock\" src=\"\/\/office-ink.ontimesupplies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/computer-hard-drives-in-stock.png\" alt=\"See the computer hard drives in stock at OnTimeSupplies.com.\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/computer-hard-drives-in-stock.png 397w, https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/computer-hard-drives-in-stock-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Need a new hard drive? Now is the time to buy. Thanks to the recent floods in Thailand, there&#8217;s going to be a major hard drive shortage. Several tech companies have been forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052970203658804576636951367373290\">suspend manufacturing<\/a> amid the worst flooding in 50 years,\u00a0including\u00a0Western Digital, one of the world&#8217;s leading hard drive suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the severity of the situation and the extensive supply constraints caused by the disruption \u2026 the effects on our industry are likely to be substantial and will extend over multiple quarters,\u201d said Western Digital CEO John Coyne.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is the world&#8217;s second largest exporter of hard drives, so Coyne isn&#8217;t the only one sounding the alarm.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m virtually certain there will be an overall industry shortage of disk drives as a result of the disaster,\u201d said Apple CEO Time Cook. Industry experts expect hard drive production to drop by about 30%.<\/p>\n<p>If you know you need a new computer hard drive, get it today. OnTimeSupplies.com still has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/Computer-Drives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">computer hard drives in stock<\/a>, and offers free shipping \u00a0and 1-2 day delivery.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111021\/ready-for-a-shortage-of-hard-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Things D<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052970203658804576636951367373290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a new hard drive? Now is the time to buy. Thanks to the recent floods in Thailand, there&#8217;s going to be a major hard drive shortage. Several tech companies have been forced to suspend manufacturing amid the worst flooding in 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terminology-and-tech-talk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}