One might hope the increased cost of mechanical disks will increase demand for SSDs, shortening the time for SSD costs to drop enough to be competitive with the

One might hope the increased cost of mechanical disks will increase demand for SSDs, shortening the time for SSD costs to drop enough to be competitive with the older technology. SSD prices also might not be affected at all by these floods: the fabrication process for silicon is almost certainly completely different to that for magnetic drives, and likely to happen in completely different factories (in other locations not dependent on the local resources that attract manufacturers to build magnetic fabs in Thailand).