Disk Drive Industry To Rebound After Tough 2011: IDC

Disk drive shipments will rebound in the second half of this year, rebounding from the massive floods in Thailand that hit drive factories and hurt shipments in 2011, market tracker IDC says in a report out Monday. The research firm says unit shipments of hard-disk drives fell 4.5% in 2011 as the flooding seriously hurt production in Thailand, which serves as a global center of HDD manufacturing. The research firm also says efforts to clear and