Disabling/Deleting Products in Magento

I need to disable products in Magento as they are currently not available from my manufacturers but I know they will come back next year. If I disable these products, will it create 404 errors?

开发者_如何转开发How do I delete products without creating 404 errors?

Why not just saying Out of Stock, so you will keep all links?

There are different ways to disable the product in frontend.
You can refer the following article for more:
http://masteringmagento.com/2010/04/8-and-a-half-reasons-your-magento-products-dont-show-up-in-the-catalog/