{"id":6795,"date":"2012-09-29T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2012-09-29T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:26:02","slug":"disk-drive-shipments-rebound-from-thai-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6795","title":{"rendered":"Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>HDD shipments in 2012 for the overall computer market, including PCs, are forecast to reach 524 million drives, up 4.3% percent from 502.5 million units last year, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isuppli.com\/Memory-and-Storage\/News\/Pages\/Hard-Drive-Shipments-Rebound-to-Record-Level-in-2012.aspx\" target=\"new\">an IHS report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hard drive prices, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9227829\/Hard_drive_prices_to_remain_high_until_2014\">will remain high<\/a>, and prices are not expected to fall to pre-flood levels until 2014, IHS stated in a report earlier this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9231799\/Disk_drive_shipments_rebound_from_Thai_floods_\">Disk drive shipments rebound from Thai floods &#8211; Computerworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hard drives sales will also get a boost from ultrabooks, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9228126\/Hybrid_drives_already_passe_as_SSD_sales_skyrocket\">machines that use hybrid drives<\/a>, which combine spinning disk with solid state storage. Those drive shipments are flat now but will take off in the fourth quarter of this years, according to IHS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HDD shipments in 2012 for the overall computer market, including PCs, are forecast to reach 524 million drives, up 4.3% percent from 502.5 million units last year, according to an IHS report. Hard drive prices, however, will remain high, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[499,103],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-hard-drives","tag-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}