UH OH: Thailand Floods Cause World Hard Drive Shortage.

On the other hand, the price for the G-Drive Slim is only up by 5 bucks. I ordered a second one a couple of weeks ago and paid $89.99. Now it’s $94.10.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Cook writes: “Just had a desktop locally built that included two WD 1 TB hard drives. The guy who built it said they were going up roughly 10 bucks/day and that it was gonna get a worse. Put in the order on a Thursday and on Friday they had already gone up.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: And reader Kim Sommer writes: “I’m at Best Buy. They had an ad in today’s paper for a Seagate 1TB desktop hard drive for $54.99. Not in the shelf. Not available to order. Not even a bait and switch since there was nothing to switch to.”