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Here's an article from one month ago discussing the over-supply of NAND and DRAM (and the effect it has on pricing): https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/20

Here's an article from one month ago discussing the over-supply of NAND and DRAM (and the effect it has on pricing): https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2019/05/25/nand-dram-supply-and-pricing https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2019/05/25/nand-dra... I can't help but feel very skeptical about the timing of this event, given the history of price-fixing in the industry.

GordonS 7y ago
These kind of issues do seem to hit with a suspicious degree of regularity - it seems every 1-2 years there is a shortage due to some calamity or such...
- wil421 7y ago
  Yea like that time a suspicious typhoon knocked out all the Hard Drive fabs in Thailand.
  - sbr464 7y ago
    I was there at the time, was pretty bad.
    - landofmiles 7y ago
      I was there too. Not at the exact time but around those times. I had enough drive-space so I was never that hung up on it. I guess these things happen. Just as the LCD price fixing and everything else in this world. I was across the compound in the Seagate HDD scenario. Not living there but just sauntering along, just at those dates. Get some Western digital drives, 10tb's maybe, I hear they are shuckable and able now. But now my girl Mary is going to sleep. Signed off by Abraham Lincoln. I've got the 13th or23rd amendment on many drives. Plus in my hat. And also my wife's SCSI. One love. Too bad about Trump. May the Union win and persevere. I heard my favorite show is on Netflix. I may let my trusted Booth spin up the drive. Does anyone have popcorn. Your trusted Abraham L. The end. --- Fucking faggotry. Why all the downvotes. Fucking silicon valley cocksuckers. Enjoy your rent and shitty lives. What a bunch of faggots. Enjoy San Francisco and your end of life lives cocksuckers. Just kill yourselves now. You know the outcome anyways. Enjoy your shitty hells.
    - iamnotacrook 7y ago
      "It would be a shame if we build labs in places with unavoidable weather problems, wouldn't it?" "Yes, it would! I believe it's your turn to tee-off".
  - novaleaf 7y ago
    Sorry it was not a typhoon, but flooding due to policy failures. Each Tambom (sub-district) control's it's dikes and levies, plus 3 or 4 "top level" water related ministries unable to cooperate, and general bureaucracy combined with nobody willing to sacrifice (get flooded to lessen the impact upstream) caused the flooding of these industrial parks. As a result of this and SSD, Thailand's HDD industry is mostly gone now. (among other losses techies don't hear about.)
BubRoss 7y ago
A power outage no less. Seems like the sort of thing that could be solved.
- NullPrefix 7y ago
  How ironic is the fact that Toshiba makes back up generators and industrial uninterrupted power supplies ?
  - yeahitslikethat 7y ago
    They should still them to tesla for their battery plant which also conveniently loses power and ruins megawatts hours of batteries. So 'spicious. All of it.

GordonS 7y ago

These kind of issues do seem to hit with a suspicious degree of regularity - it seems every 1-2 years there is a shortage due to some calamity or such...

wil421 7y ago
Yea like that time a suspicious typhoon knocked out all the Hard Drive fabs in Thailand.
- sbr464 7y ago
  I was there at the time, was pretty bad.
  - landofmiles 7y ago
    I was there too. Not at the exact time but around those times. I had enough drive-space so I was never that hung up on it. I guess these things happen. Just as the LCD price fixing and everything else in this world. I was across the compound in the Seagate HDD scenario. Not living there but just sauntering along, just at those dates. Get some Western digital drives, 10tb's maybe, I hear they are shuckable and able now. But now my girl Mary is going to sleep. Signed off by Abraham Lincoln. I've got the 13th or23rd amendment on many drives. Plus in my hat. And also my wife's SCSI. One love. Too bad about Trump. May the Union win and persevere. I heard my favorite show is on Netflix. I may let my trusted Booth spin up the drive. Does anyone have popcorn. Your trusted Abraham L. The end. --- Fucking faggotry. Why all the downvotes. Fucking silicon valley cocksuckers. Enjoy your rent and shitty lives. What a bunch of faggots. Enjoy San Francisco and your end of life lives cocksuckers. Just kill yourselves now. You know the outcome anyways. Enjoy your shitty hells.
  - iamnotacrook 7y ago
    "It would be a shame if we build labs in places with unavoidable weather problems, wouldn't it?" "Yes, it would! I believe it's your turn to tee-off".
- novaleaf 7y ago
  Sorry it was not a typhoon, but flooding due to policy failures. Each Tambom (sub-district) control's it's dikes and levies, plus 3 or 4 "top level" water related ministries unable to cooperate, and general bureaucracy combined with nobody willing to sacrifice (get flooded to lessen the impact upstream) caused the flooding of these industrial parks. As a result of this and SSD, Thailand's HDD industry is mostly gone now. (among other losses techies don't hear about.)

BubRoss 7y ago

A power outage no less. Seems like the sort of thing that could be solved.

NullPrefix 7y ago
How ironic is the fact that Toshiba makes back up generators and industrial uninterrupted power supplies ?
- yeahitslikethat 7y ago
  They should still them to tesla for their battery plant which also conveniently loses power and ruins megawatts hours of batteries. So 'spicious. All of it.