two more weeks
>>108709034Once popular consensus is that hard drives are ewaste, unviable, etc.Basically you can buy cheap hard drives once you no longer want them.thats how it often goes with women too by the way
>>108709034No, it might even get more expensive remember these oil places and gas places also have helium and helium is needed for high capacities like 24TB. As long as the war isn't ending, thing will only get more expensive not less.
>>108709044Thank you.
>>108709034when flash storage goes down
I bought a 22TB in late 2024 for around $400.Then in late 2025 I noticed prices were about to skyrocket, so i bought another 22TB for about $430, and a 4TB NVMe ($380) drive to tide me over until ~2030, hoping the market would recover by then.
>>108709034>spinning rustYou don't need that.
>>108709070>22TB Toshiba now
>>108709099That's also potentially a white label listing of an OEM drive, not a retail drive.So it wouldn't come with a warranty.
>>108709034never
>>108709034take the refurb pill
>>108709108weren't refurbed 18TBs only $250 a couple years ago?
>>108709116yep
>>108709034new normal
>>108709099I bought two of those last June for a little under £300 each from Ebuyer (which went out of business a couple of months later).
>>108709157Can you answer if they were white label or not? >>108709104
SSDs are going to get cheaper any day now. Wait it's $250 for a single TB now? No no no...
>>108709034You will get used to it.
>>108709108>WDI already hear it ticking.
>>108709172Thank god for geeksquad "refurbs".Showed up with less than 1TB written and less than 10 power on hours and less than 6 power on count.
>>108709034My institution is waiting to get a whole bunch. We need a petabyte each for multiple different departments research projects, with the physics department having multiple projects that need heaps.
Never, local hardware will be illegal soon
>>108709166As far as I'm aware all Toshiba enterprise drives are white label. They don't sell them in retail packaging direct to consumers. They do however now offer warranty service to consumers on them, at least in Europe. StorRepair handle it.
>>108709034prices never came down after the last "factory fire" or "flood" or "earth quake" or whatever reason they gave back then almost 10 years ago, they sure as hell won't come down now in the middle of the aislop craze
>>108709034I'm considering buying a bunch of tapes and a used LTO-6 drive tbqh.
>>108709034After the AI bubble implosion and the Big Beautiful Depression
>>108709034This is one of the only things I didn't sleep on.Paid 800€ for 2x24TB WD external drives, don't know which ones are used but both are helium filled.
>>108709034Why is this shit so expensive anyway? You'd think the factories producing them would have depreciated in value over a decade already.
>>108709108>24$/tbWay overpriced. Look for 16-18$ for good value
there are some hidden gems here and thereI boughted a wd mybook 16tb for €268
>>108709034I had a techlet at Walmart tell me the disk shortage is because of the RAM shortage; that the external HDD I was looking for for my wife's backup wasn't available, because of the RAM shortage. Idk how true that is
>>108709070>he'll pirate thousands of files he didn't need>won't Tyrone the drive necessary to store them
>>108709108>>108709099>>108709034ewww SATA
>>108710458They're barely pushing 300MB/s at best, so why does it matter?
>>108709341Good luck buying the tape player/recorder>>108709503I Tyrone'd 4 of those and 8TB. get gud and stop being a pussy
>>108710493850MB/s is just me preferable to me, but, that's a good number
>>108710416copyright infringement is not theft because the owner doesnt lose their property. if i go to the museum and draw a copy of what i see, i didnt "steal" the mona lisa. its still there.shoplifting is actually stealing.
>>108710522I've found some on ebay, prices be ranging between 300-600 EUR incl shipping, taxes, import duties.
>>108711236I agree with you bro. I'm just messing with you
>>108709034In recent years, HDDs have mostly been an enterprise product. Draw your own conclusions.
>hard drive in RAID5 NAS array has 1 uncorrectable bad sector>QLC SSD is at 115% data writtenI'm sure things will be fine. I'll upgrade once prices come down.
>>108713545When have prices ever come down?
>>108713545Pretty much the same situation here. It might be worth it so I can finally start a >my HDD died and I lost my nervous doggos folder>please post all your nervous doggosthread
>>108709034when trump is gone and markets have become stable.
>>108709034i had 6x 500gb hdds from 2010ish and i was looking to trade them in at my local CeX ($3 a drive) or another tech pawnbroker shop along with my old NDS, thought to grab a lunch while i was out with the cashkept putting it off and now these same drives are at least $15 on ebay each
>>108713575its actually insane how many goylets are clinging to this cope
>>108713575>when trump is gonekek
>>108709034Now, I guess?
>>108709116While new drives scale close to linear in price/capacity, there is clearly a sweet spot for refurbs, I think 14tb and 8tb is pretty good right now.
>>108709034Are WD element hdd any good? I found a 14tb for around $250, planning to get two and make a trueNAS. Any one tried them?
>>108709034Are 2.5" hard drives still being made? I want to put a new HDD in my PS3, and I don't want to waste an SSD on it since the PS3's OS doesn't have TRIM.
>>108713562Tyrone sez, you have to make the prices come down
>>108714626I'll get all this data even if I have to pay out the ass to make it happen.
>>108709034you'll use cloud own nothing and be happy so never.
>>108709060thiswhenever the war ends + how long it takes to rebuild and spin up the wells again + time it takes to rebuild infrastructure + 1 year
>>108709034Probably never?There are only 3 actual manufacturers now and they all also make NAND flash.Unless we start getting some chinese HDDs, it's probably downhill from here.SSDs should come back down again, but I'm just not so sure on HDDs.
>>108709108>refurb helium drivenever ever. There is a reason DCs throw those things away after 3 years even if they test fine.
>>108713575this is your brain on gamersnexus
Hopefully soon. HDD cartel is illegal under the law.
>>108715700They're warrantied for 5 years, and if you keep them cool they can probably last longer.The problem in data centers is their drives tend to run quite hot (40-50C) compared to drives in a home PC or small NAS/DAS enclosure.That higher sustained heat load slowly weakens the laser welds allowing the helium to slowly escape. Even with that, they should have a ~98% statistical chance to last ~5 years in a data center environment.In a home environment where you can keep temps below 35C, they could last even longer.
>>108709034>When will HDD prices go back down?not anymoreamericucks voted for this and we all are suffering the consequences.
>>108709034Never, they are requred to store all the slop generated by AI
>>108709034Have they actually gone up? Based *just* on OP's picture, they have not. This year I bought a hard drive that was 1 terabyte. It was under $100. Call it $100 for the sake of the math. Now, if that establishes a price per terabyte of $100, then multiply by 24. That's $2,400. So, from one hundred to noticably more than two thousand for the drive shown, which is shown as $800. At $800, the effective price per terabyte is lower, from $100 to (round up) $34.Of course, Seagate is utter trash, so it's not really a bargain. ;)
>>108716478Nice bait but you overdid it with the smiley.
>>108716164Blame the dems, they threatened to throw some antitrust big techs way during election season so they ran to daddy trump.
>>108709034Something like 90% of HDDs were going to servers anyway, and they were producing just enough drives to meet that demand. So it's inevitable that the massive datacenter buildout ate up all the remaining capacity.
>>108709034Why should they?
