Thailand Flood Paves PC Price Rise Worldwide

By STAFF Writer
November 13, 2011

The recent floods in Thailand has caused a global hard drive shortage leading to higher hard drive costs and eventually higher PC costs. The hard drive costs have increased more than two-fold since these floods. Thailand, the biggest producer of hard disk drives in the world accounts more than 15 percent of the global production of hard drives. So the impact of floods in this country would be felt by consumersaround the world.

As reported, the shortage could see desktop and notebook prices go up by more than 15 percent further weakening the already low US currency rates.

This current monsoon season Thailand was hit with floods that devastated the country. The flood that was rated by the Google as the most destoying flood of the last 50 years, resulted in almost two-thirds of the country being badly affected. The Google Crisis Response reported that over 900000 families and buisinesses were badly affected and hundreds of factories closed and hundreds of people have died across the country.

John Coyne, the CEO and President of the Western Digital said that that they had to temporarily close down two of their factories to save the workers as the factories are under water. He added that many of the components have been damaged which might interrupt supply chains.

In a statement issued by the Seagate Technology, it said that none of its factories were impacted and all of them are working. However the HDD component supply chain had been affected which might lead to snags in supply.

Thailand Flood 2011

Thailand Flood 2011

Thailand Flood 2011

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November 13, 2011 | 0 comments

Southeast Tourist Mecca Thailand Suffers From Deadly Flood

By MALILA Harris

THAILAND NEWS – Thailand Tourist Island is almost submerged in torrential rains and heavy flood. The unnatural biting cold and heavy rains have cleared through the south of the country.

The rising water has swept away people and many just buried under mudslides caused by torrential rains. The communication system has already on halt where trains have been cancelled and several airports shut. Flights are now landing at Koh Samui, but in a long delay.

The Thai navy has already rescued about 1,200 stranded tourists from Koh Samui and Koh Tao on its only aircraft carrier.


"There are roughly one million people affected in many provinces. At first we thought the flood would last a day or two, but now it has already been one week," Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said.

Rising floods have reached almost more than eight provinces where Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani, Trang, Krabi and Phatthalung are the most affected. The high water level is also hampering rescue effort and many tourists stuck in the provinces.

Not only communication but also electricity cut to many areas. The government has declared 80 districts in eight provinces as a disaster area and sent rescue teams to evacuate the place.

Koh Samui is one of the major tourist hub where it is reported about 13, 000 tourists have been trapped.

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