Bangkok Floods affecting prices of HDD

The severe floods that plague Thailand had affected many businesses/manufacturing there. Companies with less outsourcing that is based in Thailand are ripping the benefits of competitors who are affected gaining more business - selling goods at higher prices since there is now a shortage.

For the Hard disk drive business, precision parts within the HDD from various HDD manufacturers may come from the upstream suppliers who are affected by the floods.

 In Singapore, we are noticing that internal SATA HDDs are selling at the shops for double the price compared to pre-flood prices.  So building a system right now will be more expensive thanks to more costly HDDs.