On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> The hard drive market is strange right now as Hitachi has decided to
> abandon the market and sell its (former IBM) product line to Western
> Digital.
> 
> I don't think anyone is making any money on hard drives these days.

And in the short term that's going to change. Drive prices are going to go up 
in the near future because the factories that make a huge  percentage of them 
are flooded right now:

<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021>

Note this may force Apple's hand, supply-wise, to accelerate it's adoption of 
solid-state drives across the line.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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