Monday, April 4, 2011

Prices for hard drives will rise

The earthquake that occurred in Japan will raise the prices of hard drives suffer from a shortage of engines. It is expected to rise by 5% to 10%. This was reported the DigiTimes website which claims that Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics are the main suppliers of motors for HDD Western Digital and Seagate.

But the American was seriously affected by the disaster. The fact that its plant in Miho not find a rhythm of normal delivery by September (see "Texas Instrument will suffer from the tsunami for 6 months") should mean that shipments of hard drives from 160 million units in first quarter to 100 million in the second

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