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HDD shortages to continue

Hard times ahead for hard drives
Friday, 3 July 2009, 12:47

SOURCES IN TAIWAN say the shortage of hard disc drives (HDDs) for notebooks will likely continue well into the third quarter, something which might seriously affect notebook OEMs.

DodgyTimes cites IC distributor GMI Technology and Weikeng Industrial, who work on behalf of Toshiba, Hitachi and Western Digital, saying that demand for Tosh's 250GB single-platter HDDs had shot up over the last couple of months.

Hitachi and Western Digital couldn't fill the gap because both had throttled back production until the beginning of Q2 due to weak short-term prospects.

Notebook OEMs are said to be concerned that the shortage may affect their Q3 revenues, although it's hard to predict by how much. µ

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@Dave re: editing out Drashek comments

The INQ does edit out comments signed by Drashek, which is why he now signs his name in the main text body, and makes up a name to call himself in the name field.

Now if all comments with the word Drashek were edited out, then no one would be able to write a post complaining about him.

I don't like his posts either, but it usually only takes me 1/2 sentence or less to recognise his posts and skip down. But I do find the post complaining about him pretty funny, your's in particular was great satire.

He does add colour to the site, even if it's the sort of colour that makes you want to cover your eyes and shout obscenities.

posted by : Another Dave, 04 July 2009 Complain about this comment
Careful

<whisper He's skynet in the early stages of self-awareness. Piss him off now and he might bear a grudge, when he has control of the nuclear weapons.
</whisper

posted by : Dr Silberman, 04 July 2009 Complain about this comment
@Another Dave

Thanks for clearing-up the ‘Drashek’ procedures at INQ. for me and for the kind words about my explosion.
Sorry to have ranted on a bit Friday evening. I had just settled down with my hot chocolate and slippers to entertain and inform myself after a particularly extreme week at work and then, low and behold, there he was... again! After fighting back the tears of disappointment, sorrow and incredulity; things got a little out-of-hand and I launched into a stifling rage, breaking off most of the keys on my keyboard in the process...
In retrospect, however, I agree with you that Drashek does bring a certain ‘colour’ to the INQ., albeit a nasty shade of brown :o)

Love,
Dave xxx

posted by : Dave The Rave, 05 July 2009 Complain about this comment
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