This year’s monsoon season is causing devastating flooding in Thailand, which is threatening the supply of hard drives for the notebook PC market. The floods are expected to limit the hard disk drive motor supply coming from maker Nidec, which has about 80% share of the market. Nidec is a supplier to all the major hard drive manufacturers including Hitachi, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Additionally, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Western Digital have plants in Thailand that have curtailed production because of the supply shortage.
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