根據(jù)來自非授權(quán)分銷商的消息，泰國洪水逐漸消退之后，硬盤價格已經(jīng)回落，但還沒恢復(fù)到往日水準(zhǔn)。 “我們已經(jīng)在過去一兩周看到整體產(chǎn)業(yè)狀況大致趨于平靜；”獨立零組件銷售業(yè)者N.F. Smith & Associates的總監(jiān)暨共同創(chuàng)辦人Lee Ackerley表示，硬盤機(jī)價格：“已經(jīng)回跌，但是還沒有恢復(fù)到先前的水準(zhǔn)?！?Ackerley表示，可能要等到圣誕節(jié)采購季結(jié)束之后，才會知道硬盤短缺問題是在何時減輕；泰國的水災(zāi)也對一些硬盤與汽車內(nèi)的電阻與電容單一供應(yīng)來源造成影響。“這次PC產(chǎn)業(yè)確實展現(xiàn)了充分的靈活度，快速轉(zhuǎn)換了硬盤的密度規(guī)格，以及根據(jù)可取得性采購其它零件，這非常令人印象深刻?！彼赋?。 不久前，硬盤大廠Western Digital (WD)宣布，該公司某個泰國生產(chǎn)據(jù)點已經(jīng)重新激活，并公告將當(dāng)季營收預(yù)測由原先的12.5億美元，提高為18億美元。 編譯：Judith Cheng 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 參考英文原文： Dealer sees hard drive prices ease，by Rick Merritt

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{pagination} Dealer sees hard drive prices ease Rick Merritt SAN JOSE, Calif. – Prices of hard disk drives are on the decline following floods in Thailand, but they are not yet at back at historical levels, according to an executive with one unauthorized distributor. "We've seen a lot of calming in the entire situation in the last couple weeks," said Lee Ackerley, a director and co-founder of N.F. Smith & Associates (Houston), an independent component dealer. Prices "have come back down and evened off, but they are not back to original prices," he said. It could take until after the holiday buying season before anyone knows at what point shortages will abate. The floods also affected some sole-sourced resistors and capacitors used in hard disks and cars, he said. "The PC industry definitely showed agility moving from one [hard disk] density to another, quickly specifying other parts according to their availability--it was pretty impressive," he said. Last week hard drive maker Western Digital reported it has been able to re-open one of its Thailand facilities. It also raised its quarterly earnings forecast to $1.8 billion from 1.25 billion. Meanwhile, Ackerley is forecasting a solid year in 2012 for Smith & Associates with plans to open new offices in Sao Paulo and India. "It's finally reached the point where it makes sense for us to have our own office there," he said. The operations will initially be modest sales and warehouse facilities for the private company that employees 320 people and has annual revenues hovering around $400 million. "We are pushing to take the company to a billion dollars the by end of the decade," he said.