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Post Date: 2011-10-24
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    Posted: 24 Oct 2011 at 12:59am

There is a big hard drive shortage that has started now due to the Thailand flooding. We're doing our best to obtain hard drives from all sources, wholesale and retail. I just wanted to let everyone know about this. SSD drives are not affected. Even though some companies like Seagate's factories were not affected by the floods, their supplier for some of the components inside the drives was.

 
 
Floods in Thailand have rattled the hard drive supply chain from component suppliers to giants like Western Digital and ultimately PC and server makers will be affected, say analysts. Thailand's disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work.


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I was curious as to whether this would hit DS or not, you guys being a smaller manufacturer. Thanks for the info.  Awesome
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Yeah, it is. Scared
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my heart goes out for the people
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Originally posted by ColtM733

my heart goes out for the people


them and turkey have had some bad luck lately.

but we can help I have already everybody that can should jump in:






Edited by DST4ME - 26 Oct 2011 at 5:08pm

Nvidia Drivers----AMD Drivers
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I wanted to give everyone an update on this. Prices of hard drives have been going up every week. Prices are now almost double the original price a few weeks ago. Because of this, our system prices have been slowly going up. I highly recommend that potential customers place an order ASAP to ensure they have the best pricing.

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Oh wow... Good thing I placed my order before this happened. Hopefully, things get better in Thailand soon.
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Looks like I have a legitment excuse to buy a 120 GB SSD.Hahaha
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Dang, I wish that I could order now. I still have at least $500 more to raise. Sad

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Oh wow! I really hope my dad ordered and is just not telling me instead of just waiting around and pushing it off (he does do that often ><). Because, knowing him he'll want me to use his company discount to get a dell computer or something. ><'
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Just as an update, prices on hard drives continues to go up. Due to this, we have to increase the price of our systems.
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Originally posted by Alex

Just as an update, prices on hard drives continues to go up. Due to this, we have to increase the price of our systems.
Thanks. Do you know how much this will effect the ode prices? Or will you just be removing the 10% off promo to make up for it or something?

Hoping my dad ordered it, but, he's a hard man to get a hold of. I should go grab his phone to check his email next time I see him. XD
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Originally posted by Alex

Just as an update, prices on hard drives continues to go up. Due to this, we have to increase the price of our systems.


I understand your situation, and I'll get to that magical DSO order moment as soon as possible. The good news is that I'm almost there. Smile


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The market price of hard drives has almost tripled! Whoa

We've had to increase our hard drive prices for our systems which drives up the price of the systems, but, we didn't update the ODE prices. We've been absorbing those price increases by reducing our margins on them, however, the prices are high enough where we are now loosing money on every ODE that we're selling. Because of that, we're forced to change the hard drive selection from the 1TB to a 500GB to keep the same target price points. We may have to increase the price of the ODE systems over time if the prices continue to rise.
 
This is an unfortunate situation, and we're sorry for any inconvenience. I just hope the flooding in Thailand which is causing this gets resolved soon.
 
Hopefully when this flooding issue goes away, the market prices on hard drives will go back down so we may lower our prices again. ETA for that to happen is in middle of Q1 of next year...
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This stinks but maybe a reason for some to get a few SSD's and raid them?

EDIT: looks like unlicencedhitman just made my point for me.

Edited by AndydViking - 05 Nov 2011 at 8:02pm
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Posts: 16314 		  Quote Alex Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 05 Nov 2011 at 9:55pm
True, but, SSD's are still more expensive than the hard drives.
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once hdd drives go back down, will the prices of base line dc systems go back down to around 1k?
amd and intel ftw. no?
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Prices will come back down when and if the hard drives prices do. ETA on this is next year March from what we were told.
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ah, just found this thread. Maybe I shouldnt be holding out for the black friday sale Cry
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