A little over a decade ago, before SSDs were commonplace, there was a HDD shortage caused by a flood in Thailand ruining factories used by some of the top storage brands. Here's the Backblaze side of the story detailing what it was like to weather this challenge: <a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/" rel="nofollow">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/</a><p>I preface my comment with that just to establish I remember what hard drive prices were like back then and what they were afterwards. The prices never really came down, at least not to what they had been, ever.<p>All that to say I expect this SSD shortage will play out the same way.