The early brunt of a hard-drive shortage resulting from widespread flooding in Thailand is falling on small PC makers, who are raising computer prices to stem losses.

Hard-drive prices have skyrocketed since October, and shortages have forced independent computer makers to raise PC prices by up to 20 percent. Analysts expect PC prices to continue rising as the severity of the floods are assessed, with prices expected to stabilize as shortages end by the first half next year.

Fusion-io is back with two new enterprise-grade flash storage solutions -- the ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo. Both of them deliver powerful low latency performance, improved endurance and reliability required by enterprise applications, databases and virtual environments. The PCIe based flash cards provide 15 microsecond write latency, 3GB/s bandwidth, over 700,000 read IOPS and over 900,000 write IOPS.

The Fusion-io MLC ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo will be offered in 365GB, 785GB, 1205GB and 2.4TB capacities, beginning in late November 2011, followed by SLC products in 400GB, 600GB and 1.2TB capacities.

Starting price of these drives is $5,950!