No one has actually run out of drives yet. Most manufacturers have stated they have drives enough to last them through the end of November Actually, the situat

No one has actually run out of drives yet. Most manufacturers have stated they have drives enough to last them through the end of November Actually, the situation looks much worse than that, from where I sit. I work for a major "large account reseller", and my code is what builds the customer catalogs, so I've got an intimate view of this. As the drives become unavailable, one would expect them to be marked as backordered in the datafeeds we get from the suppliers. But the situation is so dire that two of the three major suppliers (Ingram Micro, Tech Data, and Synnex) have actually removed hard drive products altogether from their feeds. (my code doesn't appreciate this: it knows the difference between backorders and discontinued products!)