I'm not even talking about the prices, it's evident that everything's gonna get more expensive. But will hard drives ever be available to ordinary consumers at all even for ridiculous prices? Will they ever produce small capacity drives (like 2-8TB) considering that the datacenters require at least 20TB+ units because I remember how even back then certain server grade drives were not available for sale. Or will they make sure that people won't even have the chance to get the scraps?
>>109667862Consumer drives were only like 10% of the HDD industry before the datacenter boom, so it took very, very little increase in enterprise demand for consumer drives to get essentially killed off. Datacenter will probably cool off eventually.But hey, the refurb market should be good, right?
>>109667862A golden future is what awaits hard disks, like anything that's price- and application-restricted to employed White males.You all wanted SSDs that are 5x the $/TB and fail every 15 minutes, so you get it - good and hard.
>>109667862The entire sub-10TB sector is practically obsolete, outside of maybe the occasional 4TB 2.5". Normies wouldn't even know how to connect an hdd and they struggle to fill up a 1tb ssd.For enterprise and data hoarders you want as high density as possible. One of the side effects of ai sloppa spending infinite money on memory chips means that ssd capacity will go up a bit quicker than it would otherwise, so once production catches up in 2028 or so you'll start seeing 16tb m2 ssd and over time those will go cheaper - input costs are low, it's just the fabs that are insanely expensive to spin up. HDDs must offer a significant discount over those.tldr I'd expect hdds from 16tb and above to be the only ones getting produced, alongside a tiny amount of 2.5" 4tb. Prices will stay high to anywhere between 2028 and 2030 but will go down significantly in time.
>>109667956stfu moron
>>109668018Well, that's unfortunate. I believe that even 1-2TB HDDs have their use (such as MBR formatted boot drives for legacy OS such as win xp-98, slackware and it will boot/run very fast because there's no bloat or small backups). It would be better to have your data scattered on several smaller drives than concentrated on fewer bigger ones. Looks like consumer drives are going the way of dodo just like optical drives and 2,5 laptop hdds. Datacenter drives will never reach the secondary market because they shred them right after hitting the end of warranty period.Also SSDs are fucking garbage (especially for cold backups) regarded as some high tech cosmic technology superior to magnetic recording while in reality it's very unreliable, volatile, consumes more power, overheats and technically it's no different from flash drives/SDs, especially considering that they don't make SLC, MLC SSDs flash anymore.
>>109667862it will shrink and eventually disappear since ssds ate its lunch
>>109667862As long as they can sell the same drives at 4x the price for enterprises, you'll no longer get cheap drives. And normies will be happy with their 1TB cloud drive that comes free with their google/microsoft account.>>109668018unless ssds come down to price parity, there'll be room for 1-4tb HDDs.
I mean it's great that consumer drives exist so that price of enterprise stay lower but i mean, i can't see why anyone without a modicum of knowledge wouldn't just buy refurbished enterprise drives
>>109667862You will have a 1TB SMR HDD, and you will like it.>>109667924Datacenters always existed, hundreds were constructed between 2015 and 2020, mostly for storage. Why AI datacenters would make HDD more expensive when these datacenters only wants SDD?
>>109667862WD says consumer is 5% of their sales. They'll still make them they will just be expensive. People will buy them they will just buy those lower capacities. They'll keep making them.
>>109669152datacenters also want HDDs, and HDDs also have RAM on them.
>>109667862>Will they ever produce small capacity drives (like 2-8TB)That's all they're selling here at reasonable prices, terrible $/TB, but they're the only afforable ones. Big HDDs cost as much as enthusiast tier GPUs
>>109668018>practically obsoleteyes indeed i will buy x2 20000000000000000000tb hard disk to use one for a scratch disk and other for temp downloads and other nonsense>>109669152they dont want people to buy tech they want all of us on the 'clouds'lucky i got few new backups before prices went up
>>109667862will the HDDs ever get faster than 280MBs? thats the top speed i seen even on modern drives... can we ever at least double that on single hdd?
>>109669890The newest hdds that approach or even surpass 40tb are about 400 mb/s
>>109668868>(such as MBR formatted boot drives for legacy OSdon't they make IDE to SD card adapter boards for that specific usecase?
>>109668736>t. poor unemployed brown troon
