The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand.
That’s on top ofthe human costof over 800 lives.
Among those was Nidec, which produces ~70% of the world’s hard drive spindle motors.
The graphs below show prices from Newegg from mid-September 2011 until February 1 2012.
Some drives appear to have been more severely impacted than others.
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 is selling for double the price at the beginning of October.
Let’s check out similar data for mobile oriented hard drives.
