In the fall of 2011, it was not easy to find or buy a PC hard drive. Factories that made hard drives in Thailand shut down for months
due to massive flooding in that country. As a result, shortages of hard drives hit the industry and prices went up for a number of months.
Now things in the hard drive industry appear to be not just back to normal but are now exceeding previous records.
According to a new study by IHS, the research firm predicts that PC hard drive shipments will number around 524 million units in 2012, up 4.3 percent from 2011 and the highest shipment numbers ever for the industry.
