WD Reports Impact on HDD Production Due to Severe Flooding in Thailand

btarunr · Oct 12, 2011

Western Digital Corp. today announced that production of hard drives in its facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, will be constrained in the current quarter due to the severe flooding in Thailand. The flooding is causing problems with the region's infrastructure, including transportation and utilities, and has resulted in the inundation of some supplier facilities and employee homes. The company is gratified to report that its approximately 37,000 Thailand-based employees are deemed safe at this time.

The company is working with its suppliers to maximize throughput and availability of parts in order to best meet the needs of its customers.

In the quarter ending July 1, 2011, WD shipped approximately 54 million hard drives from its facilities in Thailand and Malaysia, with approximately 60 percent coming from its Thailand sites. The company's Thailand operations source much of its supply of components from local suppliers.

While WD's facilities in Thailand are operational, production has been suspended on a temporary basis to protect its employees and its facilities and equipment against water ingress. The company indicated that conditions associated with the continued flooding are evolving quickly and the extent of the impact on its operations in Thailand cannot yet be fully determined. The company will provide further updates on the situation, including on its investment community conference call on Wednesday, October 19, 2011.

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btarunr · Oct 12, 2011

You can additionally refer to our older article to give you an idea of how the HDD manufacturing industry is spread across.

Taking into account WD being a very-high volume HDD supplier and how a bigger chunk of the industry is spread across Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore, I don't expect HDD prices to go up.

FreedomEclipse · Oct 12, 2011

Or those 37,000 employee's got set up by WD...

37,000 WD ~~sweatshop workers~~ Employee's got smart, formed a union and were damanding 50c more to their $1 a day salary and WD couldnt bring back the gas chamber so they tried to drown them instead.

I love a good conspiracy.

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Seriously though. I hope all their staff are safe.

[H]@RD5TUFF · Oct 13, 2011

Wonder if this will lead to price gouging.

RejZoR · Oct 13, 2011

It will. Just like it did when Australia was flooded. It's not relevant, but every excuse is a good one to increase the prices.

Melvis · Oct 25, 2011

Oh hell yes the prices have gone up here on average $25-$35 per drive, and even more for others grrr. Real bad timing as i need to buy a few HDD's NOW!!

xBruce88x · Oct 25, 2011

at least they're not as bad as the oil companies...

de.das.dude · Oct 25, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
Or those 37,000 employee's got set up by WD...

37,000 WD ~~sweatshop workers~~ Employee's got smart, formed a union and were damanding 50c more to their $1 a day salary and WD couldnt bring back the gas chamber so they tried to drown them instead.

I love a good conspiracy.

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Seriously though. I hope all their staff are safe.

its japan. i think they would rather hire ninjas to do the killing.

Neuromancer · Oct 25, 2011

Newegg HDD proces appear to have gone up already. At least them seem quite a bit higher than they were last week.

btarunr · Oct 25, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
Or those 37,000 employee's got set up by WD...

37,000 WD ~~sweatshop workers~~ Employee's got smart, formed a union and were damanding 50c more to their $1 a day salary and WD couldnt bring back the gas chamber so they tried to drown them instead.

I love a good conspiracy.

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Seriously though. I hope all their staff are safe.

You don't manufacture HDDs in sweat shops. You need cleanrooms and your employees to be dressed in bunny suits (special suit for semiconductor and HDD mfg).

n-ster · Oct 25, 2011

btarunr said:
You don't manufacture HDDs in sweat shops. You need cleanrooms and your employees to be dressed in bunny suits (special suit for semiconductor and HDD mfg).

But they still get underpaid

If what he said is true, their 37 000 employees are getting the pay of what 1-2 employees from the Western world would get lol o.o

and they would probably be working in sweatshops if it didn't affect the HDDs quality.

Deleted member 3 · Oct 25, 2011

de.das.dude said:
its japan. i think they would rather hire ninjas to do the killing.

How would you hire a ninja if you can't see them?

FreedomEclipse · Oct 25, 2011

DanTheBanjoman said:
How would you hire a ninja if you can't see them?

secondly. how could they hire enough ninja's to kill 37'000 people??

the cost would be too great. its better to let nature run wild which costs nothing unless their the ones that paid people off to blow up the dam.

that way they can claim it back on insurance.

Deleted member 3 · Oct 25, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
secondly. how could they hire enough ninja's to kill 37'000 people??

the cost would be too great. its better to let nature run wild which costs nothing unless their the ones that paid people off to blow up the dam.

that way they can claim it back on insurance.

Pyramid scheme.

FordGT90Concept · Oct 25, 2011

The new and improved pyramid is the multi-level marketing scheme: every ninja kills one person and hires one more for the next. Rince and repeat until you got 37,000. :roll:

techtard · Oct 25, 2011

I just checked out HDD prices online, and they shot up quite a bit.

Not in the market for any HDDs at the moment, but it's brutal how fast retailers took advantage of the Thailand flooding.

n-ster · Oct 25, 2011

They weren't so high a few days ago

I was about to buy 6 HDDs at 80$ each, now they are 25$ ea more....

I guess I'll have to wait now >.>

Neuromancer · Oct 25, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
secondly. how could they hire enough ninja's to kill 37'000 people??

WTF? You would only need 1! :toast:

heh heh

BrooksyX · Oct 25, 2011

dang hdd prices are getting crazy expensive. feel like we are in the early 2000s again with those prices.

I was just about to build my girlfriends parents a cheap sanybridge rig too

Soylent Joe · Nov 6, 2011

Yes definitely the prices are now insane. We're looking at around $100 for a 320-500GB (was <$40), $200 for a 1TB (was about $55), closer to $300 or higher for anything bigger (was $60-140). So glad that I've got my storage solutions taken care of. I feel bad for anyone who has to buy one right now because of an emergency situation. We can only hope they fall back in line before 2012.

Also, my face when seeing the new prices
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Deleted member 24505 · Nov 6, 2011

My god 54 million drives shipped, how many petabytes of storage would that be.

Answers on a stamped addressed envelope children.

Dbiggs9 · Nov 25, 2011

Went to go picked up drives seen crazy prices gave up now i know why! This shut down my new drive upgrades

btarunr · Nov 25, 2011

I spoke to some local distributors, they say it will take up till February 2012 for HDD prices to cool down.

WD's plant restoration is moving at a breakneck pace.

Dbiggs9 · Nov 25, 2011

I picked up 2 1TB about 6months ago for $50 each. same drive today $149. Looks like i will have to wait till summer.

FreedomEclipse · Nov 25, 2011

btarunr said:
I spoke to some local distributors, they say it will take up till February 2012 for HDD prices to cool down.

WD's plant restoration is moving at a breakneck pace.

werent people saying that we'd still be feeling the effects of the HDD shortage well beyond march 2012??

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