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How is the flooding in Thailand affecting hard drive prices?

Many of the companies that produce internal and external hard disk drives have factories in Thailand and Malaysia. Due to widespread flooding, we expect the supply of hard drives to be severely constrained over the next few months. We'll do our best to maintain the hard drive variety and inventory that you depend on us for, but we may be forced to pass on the rising costs. We don't know yet if this will affect the availability and pricing of Apple computers, but this flooding will affect the entire computer manufacturing industry.

Now is a great time to stock up on any external hard drives you might need this winter or get your computer's hard drive upgraded.

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Published October 31, 2011 2:24 PM
Last modified on October 31, 2011 4:06 PM


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