>The surge in demand is already translating to pricing. Western Digital and Seagate currently price their hard drives at around $14.30 to $14.90 per terabyte. They are targeting prices of $25 to $30 per terabyte in 2027 and 2028, Morgan Stanley noted.At this point we can forget about ever buying a new hard drive.
Why? Is everyone jobless now?
>>109065705The majority of people cannot afford something like this. Don’t over simplify, it only makes you look stupid.
we are hyperinflatingwe aren't going to be worried about the price of computers in a year or two, we'll be worried about the price of potatoes being higher than our hourly wage
>>109065670>$15 per terabyte>meanwhile in realityalso, feet.
pump it up to the max I bought mine already
>>109065670use case for a new hard drive?
>>109065903porn, feet pics and emulation roms.
>>1090656701TB is so much data. I feel like a boomer but anything under $100/TB is a fantastic price. I remember when you couldn’t even buy a 1TB SSD and having 10+ TB in your whole system was something only the most insane data hoarders dreamed of.Encode your shit in 265 and delete stuff you don’t ever watch or play. And also accept the fact that computing is an expensive hobby.
>>109065705Timmy is just a dorky ass pussy who can't Tyrone the storage he stores his pirated media on
>>109065915This is a profoundly retarded post.
>>1090659151 terabyte is nothing in today's world
>>109066605>>109066651>AAA goyslop consumers
>>109066605You are profoundly underage.>>109066651Neither is $100. Here’s an example of ~1TB in use on my system:147 Wii Games as WBFS - 242GBBreaking Bad Blu Ray Rip 265 + Extras - 115GB159 movies encoded into 265 - 572GBThat’s a lot of shit! Being able to almost permanently store all that for just $100 (USD by the way) is pretty incredible.
>>109066736no offense anon but you're data hoarding tadpole. I ripped that terry davis collection torrent and that thing alone was already like idk 965gb or something close to that. You find some really good esoteric YouTube channel and wanna dl it you can easily hit 100-500gb right there. You want a home server netflix replacement that's gonna easily be 10tb+. We're heading into an age of mass-internet purging I don't so much care about media and tv shows or games, that shit will always be available everywhere but there's certain things that get wiped and scrubbed and I need a lot of space to keep up with it these days. I would say 1b is a lot if I was just going to rely on ig companies to store stuff but it's just not the case anymore. I burned through my 1tb SSD just with like my skyrim mods and a few local LLMs I was testing. A couple years ago I bought a few 12tb hdds which ran me something like 240 bucks each or something. We're gtting jewed on storage now plain and simple
>>109066765That’s just 1 random terabyte of stuff I grabbed to make an example.What do you expect to pay for a self contained version of Netflix that runs on your own hardware?I think it’s funny that the people complaining about storage costs always have insane demands like “personal Netflix”. I don’t like calling people entitled but the fact that you expect to be able to hoard shitloads of data, the equivalent of many many rooms full of physical documents, and then you expect to be able to do so for a tiny cost compared to any other hobby. It’s obscene. The fact is that this stuff is vastly cheaper than it should be considering the actual effort involved in its production even at the current price. Even something like owning a nice RC car will cost you more in a year than a hundred TB of storage would.
>>109065797JFL U can't even store 4chan memes with 1TB, also 1TB HDDs were $25 you fucking globohomo sycophant
I have most of the bits to assemble a NAS>i3 9100 CPU for iGPU transcoding>C246 chipset mobo with 6x native SATA ports> 2x 32GB ECC UDIMMs>Fractal Node 304 and a SFX-L ROG Loki 750W PSU (overspecced but it was on sale and is pretty high on the list of PSUs that run efficiently at low draw)>An 8x/4x/4x bifurcation riser, 2x 118GB optane drives I picked up aaaaaaages ago (for L2ARC if not SPECIAL devices) plus some random 2280 + 2242 drives for a boot mirrorThe only thing I don't have is any hard drives, because I kept putting off buying those like an idiot.I was eyeing WD Reds because apparently they run quieter than Exos/IronWolf drives and I have literally nowhere in my place where the NAS wouldn't be in earshot, but in Australia everything aside from SMRshit and WD 22TB Reds have sold out and the latter went up from 800 to 1300 AUD (also I only have 6 SATA ports so they're not exactly optimal either).My choices are,1) Bite the bullet and buy Reds one by one when I can afford them ~2x a year.2) Look at refurbished drives- either WD Gold/Ultrastars, or Seagate Ironwolves (I know to definitely avoid Exos), but even then how loud will these other fuckers be?3) Look into shucking, although I've not yet checked to confirm supply-levels of external drives as to whether this is even still an option(Did I miss any obvious alternatives?)
>>109065670Deserved for being a retarded snailoid and a coomer
>>109066866I'm in Qld with similar situation, basically plan on just being opportunistic and seeing where I land - external drives on sale I'll remove from their housing, used drives (just pulled one from a PS4), whatever I can get just the more the better. I'd love a perfect 4 bay NAS loaded with fresh new 16tb enterprise drives but with these prices it's not going to happen.
>bought a 14tb drive for 150 bucks a year before prices went through the roof>had plans to buy a couple more and maybe get a NASLol.
Threads like this are being made by the authorities.They post lust provoking pictures combined with doomer news about hardware.This way they are trying to convince people to stop using computers and start reproducing.This is the real reason everything tech related becomes more expensive and not datacenters.It will not work, we the common people will win.
>>109066866Wow, mirin the optanes, yes you have most of the setup for I'm assuming a ZFS server. When I built something similar (no optane, but multiple pools), I shucked Easystores that I bought during black friday over a few years. They were 14 terabytes a piece and ended up being bottom binned Ultrastars (WDC WD140EDGZ-XXXXXXX), which are straight up datacenter grade drives. They have a deep rumble sometimes but I don't mind, but I have a Define 7 case which is pretty silent so maybe that's why.Shucking Easystores of various kinds used to be the home server go to before the RAMpocalypse, but idk what it is now that WD drives are basically impossible to come by for consumers. I personally would never buy used, but I've heard at least a few good experiences from people who did. The problem with shucking is that you'll need to do the kapton tape trick, which is honestly a little annoying, but definitely doable.Whichever drives you put in, make sure they're not SMR because ZFS will eat SMR alive during scrubs. Also do your research on ZFS on boot drives. It's outside the kernel and so is generally more complicated and more accident prone. Side note, but a while ago I accidentally bought two 8 terabyte Easystores and then forgot to return them. Patting myself on the back currently for my stroke of dumb luck.
>>109067661 (me)Just checked current Easystore prices and the 8 terabyte version is almost 400 USD, which is almost double what I bought my 14 terabyte drives for during black friday 2022/2023... The world's gone fucking mad.
>>109065915I'm glad that you are happy with what you got and you are not wrong, but for people who actually followed the price charts, the current prices are insane. Waitfags are on suicide watch. Yes, my very first PC had 80GB storage and having a multiple terrabyte system still feels unreal, it's just painful for homelabbers. Even before the price hikes, I thought drives are expensive.
>>109067661I like the tv on the ps2. Post this in bst.
Are those female feet or male feetWhy do they have to take away the only things I care about At this point I'm prepared to go super slow tech and only hoard text files, and only post in creepy deep web niche places
About 6? years ago I paid 200 each for 12tb drives which I shucked, got 10 in total all have been running 24/7, I am horrified one will die and I'll have to rebuild my raid
>>109067661WIL YU LAAAHV MEE 2MAAAHROW
>just got done paying through my dickhole for a pair of 8TB NAS drives>at least I did it before it got any worse
>>109068103mirror them pls
>>109065705It's not about not having money, I'm not just inclined to pay more.
Waited too long and just have a 1TB SDD. was looking through some old shit and found another 1TB WD HDD and a 500GB one as well, thank fucking god. I ain't paying these dogshit ass prices lol
>>109068247but of course, that's what I got em for
>>109065670give it a ~year for cringe intelligence space to collapse and you will be able to buy em by a pallet with pocket change. though it does suck if you have to get one now.
What do we do I am worried? Buy all the black Friday sales this November like its toilet paper during COVID?
All of this shit is fake and gay all of this shit started because a literal faggot manipulated the market with a check he couldn't cash. Don't play into this shit and watch them hold the bag also you should have prepared for this we warned you for 2 years already
>>109068711Don't buy if there isn't a pressing need. Like if you're thinking about upgrading just for the sake of it, now probably isn't the time and it would be best to try to wait it out. If there is a pressing need, then bite the bullet if you can actually afford it.
>>109065670looks like a non chopped version of smittens
>>109069496>wait it outKeep in mind that Chyna is invading taiwan in spring 2028, so you dont want to wait too long
>>109069597Yeah, yeah2 more weeks or whatever
>>109065915A terabyte is basically nothing. I have to clear space multiple times per month at this point. Especially if you play any games made after 2012
>>109066835Using that same analogy, it would be like landlords hiking rent way up because banks were buying up all the housing and squeezing the market.If that were happening of course.
Buy used enterprise drives. I got 2x14Tb Toshiba MG07. I had to buy a define R5 because of the noise but I'm happy with the decision.
>>109066686Do you retards understand how much storage 3d assets and music production takes up? Ever downloaded an orchestral lib? How fast a zbrush sculpt file grows? So fucking clueless.
>>109070104>AAA goyslop producers
>>109070123For me, it's computational biology. Raw data from instruments like mass spectrometers or whole genome rna-seq data are fuckhuge.
>>109065670Yep, it's getting pretty bad, like 100% price increase on diskprices.com tracker
>>109067661did you appear in "paul is bad at stuff" videos?
>>109068008>>109072796Not my battlestation, I got it from /v/ or /g/'s battlestation thread, can't remember which
>>109073225I see, those paints made me curious
>>109065705Unemployment is huge in most developed nations and nobody is talking about it
feet
>>109065705yes
I bought a 2TB drive in November for 40 bucks. There's still about 800GB free space on it. What are 2TB drives going for now?
No way that's a boy, right?
imagine the plapping
>>109065670Threadly reminder: they bought up consumer-grade RAM and storage to create shortages and spike prices because local LLM models are now competitive with large "frontier" ones. They don't actually need this RAM/storage. It will probably end up in landfills.
>>109074818I mean, least with disc drives about 90% of the market was for servers anyway, even a small spike in enterprise demand would have caused consumers to get shafted regardless.
>>109074834Data centers use enterprise grade storage, not consumer grade.
>mfw waiting for the pop so i can get a 1tb ram system for $100
>>109074623>What are 2TB drives going for now?Around $100 for internal HDD
>>109074769>TattoosI will not be imagining anything at all.
It's a shame, we were trending down to a cent per gigabyte.
>>109065705Like 1 in 10 people, did you just wake up from coma?
>>109065670What's going on with this girl? Who is she? I'm obsessed and I can't stop visiting the thread every now and then to see if more info/videos/image come out.
>>109065670AI companies needs to stop hording on every AI user generated data and only keep generated stuff that been bookmarked/liked by the user.99% of what AI produces is useless and should be deleted after a week.
>>109065670>>109065705>>109065735Get physical silver coins.No silver means no computer hardware at all.They're going to be begging you on their knees to give them back some silver because they won't have enough of it for their own data centers.
