External HDDs News

Hard drive manufacturers reportedly want PC vendors to sign a one-year contract, locking them at the current inflated price and volume.

Many drives from both hard drive manufacturers have been reduced down to one or three years.

Intel just warned investors that the hard drive shortage caused by the Thailand flood has impacted processor sales and will lead the company to report a revenue shortfall of about $1 billion in the fourth calendar quarter.

Shipping in limited quantities now, and worldwide early next year.

Just one building is back, but the rest is still in pretty wet and damaged shape.

The global supply for hard drives will fall 70 million units short of the 180 million needed in 4Q11.

A drop in the bucket Western Digital plans to fight on principle, if one can call it that.

Seagate has just lowered its shipment forecast for Q4 again.

Hard drive production may be back to pre-flood levels by the end of 2012, claims Seagate's CEO.

The ongoing shortage of hard disk drive supply is expected to worsen and peak in early 2012, analysts expect.