I've noticed that 8TB hard drives have been sticking around the $150 mark for the past seven years, and I'm curious if anyone has insights on this. What are the main reasons for the stagnation in price? Why can't I upgrade my storage array reasonably?
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I was really hoping to upgrade my setup as well, aiming for a massive 100TB array by now. But with the price hold on HDDs, it’s tough to expand as easily as I had planned. I just need a few more large drives to really make it work.
Exactly! The overall volume for HDDs is declining in the consumer market. SSDs have become affordable enough for most people, especially at 512GB to 1TB, which has shifted a lot of buyers away from traditional hard drives. Even the bigger companies are starting to phase out HDDs in favor of SSDs.
The tech behind hard drives hasn't made significant leaps recently, especially as the industry shifts to solid-state drives (SSDs). The cost savings and efficiencies that were once booming have been overshadowed by inflation and tariffs. So, yeah, there's definitely a bigger picture at play here that affects pricing.
Demand for traditional HDDs is really low, leading to limited supply in the secondhand market. I’m currently using some secondhand 12TB drives, and they work perfectly fine. If you're looking for new drives, though, you might have to deal with higher prices.
Isn't it funny how they sometimes seem to sabotage their own prices? Like, setting fire to factories if the prices dip too low—that’s quite the extreme measure! I wonder if they do that with HDDs also or just with things like DRAM and NAND.
That makes sense! It seems like SSDs are stealing the spotlight and driving down the prices of HDDs. It’s frustrating when you just want to expand your storage without breaking the bank.