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    News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    China has a virtual monopoly on many key elements and is restricting supply.
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    Re: News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    D'oh.

    Sounds as though it shouldn't affect the overall trend too much though. 2 & 3TB drive prices will likely continue to fall faster than this price rise will affect them.

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    Re: News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    According to HEXUS sources in the channel, hard drive giant Western Digital has begun notifying its partners that they can expect to thee the price
    Lisp?

    Seeing as REEs are used in pretty much every gadget available these days, wouldn't this be bumping the price of all tech, not just hard drives?
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    Re: News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    Japan has recently found a new plentiful source of REEs
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_890121.html
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    Re: News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    As long as SSD prices are not affected , we are all good ?

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    Re: News - WD confirms HDD price rises due to rare earth shortage

    That's actually a good idea on China's part, means more people will start up businesses in China and so more people there will get jobs.

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