Some retailers are dealing with it in different ways - possibly depending on where in the queue they are. Unfortunately the problem is affecting the brand of hard drives that I would normally select (WD and Seagate) a bit harder than some others.

Apparently the issue is expecting to take quite some time before it sorts itself out - I did hear at least 6 months. So I thought about getting another drive to dedicate to my Mac but a casual conversation with one retailer would indicate that prices have already doubled for some products even though they are on same stock.

If solid state drives are not affected, maybe they will get a foothold.

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