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 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
