Or possibly the cost of building a new plant which is less flood-prone.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 15:30 -0400, James Hall wrote:<br>
>> Not so much cashing in as a lot of production capacity is down, so<br>
>> there's less of a supply but demand is unaffected, driving the prices<br>
>> up. It's econ 101 really.<br>
><br>
> Yes. That's called "cashing in". Those $140 hard drives are no more<br>
> expensive to manufacture, stock, distribute and finally sell than they<br>
> were a month ago at $80.<br>
<br>
</div>Unless you factor in the cost of cleaning up a recently flooded<br>
factory, in which case the next batch of disks to be built definitely<br>
are more expensive to manufacture.<br>
<br>
I can't see any likely way this flood would have a net positive effect<br>
on disk manufacturers.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Eric<br>
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