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Floods in Thailand – Accelerates adoption of SSDs and dedupe

Flooding in Thailand is driving up prices and constricting availability of HDDs.  A Gartner Note, “How to Cope with a Worldwide Hard-Disk Shortage in 2012” (G00227631) by Valdis Filks and Stanley Zaffos, December 6 2011, predicts:"HDD costs will increase by up to 20% in 2012".  Their number one recommendation to cope with the shortage is: "Accelerate the deployment of storage efficiency improving technologies and procedures." Data growth...