I was shopping for an HDD drive for my NAS the other day and was surprised that Canada Computers (national computer store chain) was sold out of most of the usual Seagate and Western Digital drives. My local store only had a handful of Toshiba drives in stock.

The store's sales rep said they hadn't received new drives in weeks and that a meeting with their head office hadn't shed any light on the situation.

I'm curious if anyone has noticed a shortage of drives anywhere lately? Is this a Canada specific issue or a symptom of something more industry-wide?