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See the HDD "shortage".

• vertex-four 12y ago
  In that particular case, there was a shortage - it was extremely difficult for even large businesses to get hard drives. The issue was that hard drive manufacturers were (are?) clustered around an area that got flooded.
  • uptown 12y ago
    Or the shortage was caused by the NSA filling their new data-center with as much capacity as it could get its hands on, covertly, and the flood was used as a convenient cover-story for the shortage.
    • Bluestrike2 12y ago
      Maybe the NSA even managed to engineer the flood itself? Yes, that sounds about right.
    • brador 12y ago
      It is a possibility that might have made the situation worse, but there really was a flood and many HDD factories were flooded and closed.