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  • Jim Glickert

    October 27, 2011 at 4:46 am

    Funny you should mention that. I was in a Micro Center store in St. Louis just yesterday, and noticed a “Limit 2 per customer” sign near the hard drives. That sure looked strange. Plus, there was a LOT of empty shelf space in the hard drive section. Coincidentally, I was at the store to pick up some Hitachi 2TB hard drives. I found some left, even at sale prices ($119 each).

  • Rafael Amador

    October 27, 2011 at 9:16 am
  • Jason Jenkins

    October 27, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    I just got eight drives in. Hopefully that will tide me over.

    Jason Jenkins
    Flowmotion Media
    Video production… with style!

  • Jeremy Garchow

    October 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    …and the hits just keep on coming

  • Don Walker

    October 27, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    Since the flooding in Thailand, affects primarily the maker of 80% of the market’ drive motors, will this drive both computer manufacturers, and consumers towards a faster adaptation of SSD’s?
    Supposedly the tsunami was a catalyst for program delivery to migrate to a file based workflow when the Sony plant making HDcam SR tapes was put offline.

    don walker
    texarkana, texas

    John 3:16

  • Chris Harlan

    October 27, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    [Don Walker] “Supposedly the tsunami was a catalyst for program delivery to migrate to a file based workflow when the Sony plant making HDcam SR tapes was put offline.

    I know that was bandied about a lot, but everyone I know in the HDcam SR world is just waiting for tape to come back/ drop in price before beginning mastering and back-ups again. Nobody is trusting their masters to hard drive-only for the long run.

  • Jason Jenkins

    October 27, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    [Don Walker] “Since the flooding in Thailand, affects primarily the maker of 80% of the market’ drive motors, will this drive both computer manufacturers, and consumers towards a faster adaptation of SSD’s?”

    My guess is that the flood was orchestrated by Other World Computing in order to drive sales of their SSD’s. Those guys are crafty.

    Jason Jenkins
    Flowmotion Media
    Video production… with style!

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