Six months after the Thailand drive crisis, drive prices "peaked" at about double their earlier prices and began falling. Just about then, an article came out featuring a bunch of panic inducing quotes from a Seagate VP loudly claiming it might be a year before they could get enough drives made, shortages would be terrible. It felt so disgusting to me, none of it was true, the VP was just trying to encourage pre-buying and drive hoarding to artificially pump sales.