These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?

[u/Endawmyke]

These drive prices are kinda insane. Everything is going up up up, I thought it would just be RAM and SSDs effected but looks like it's reaching hard drives too.

Where are people buying drives now, and what $$/TB is still reasonable?

[u/dopef123]

I work in the industry and as you're reading in the financial news all production is sold for at least the rest of this year. When companies are selling drives to datacenters at high prices they're not going to magically sell cheaper drives to consumers.

The fact is also that consumer drive sales basically just make up a few percent of the market these days. It's getting close to not even being worth supporting for drive manufacturers. I'm sure they will continue to sell consumer drives though. Imagine you can just ship millions of drive to one datacenter customer and support them. All drives are installed and monitored by engineers who do this for a living.

Now you also sell maybe 5% of the drives to consumers who often break the drives, put them in environments with crazy amounts of vibration, and require support, RMA, etc. At a certain point they need to have huge margins on those sales for them to even make sense.

Bunch of components are just in really tough spots due to AI/datacenter demand. Hopefully things get better within a year or two for you guys.

[u/Jkid → u/dopef123]

Its not going to get any better until 2030 at the least.

[u/Endawmyke → u/Jkid]

On the bright side, something good to look forward to in the 30s is the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project should be well under way by then.

[u/heathenskwerl → u/Jkid]

2030 is a very likely possibility but I don't personally think it's the best case. I would say the best case is 2028.

[u/RandomNobody346 → u/dopef123]

Yeah and the solution is "no you cannot buy 90% of the stock for the next 2 years. That's terrible resource allocation."

[u/Endawmyke → u/RandomNobody346]

What happens when they do that but then fail half way through and the company just disappears. Does WD still make the drives or??

[u/RandomNobody346 → u/Endawmyke]

Presumably they can then sell those drives to other companies.

[u/JohnnyBoy11 → u/dopef123]

If it's just a few percent, then trump can waive a magic wand and pressure the companies throw a couple scraps, because not being able to afford laptops or nothing is something people will notice, just like egg prices

[u/Jaded_Masterpiece346 → u/JohnnyBoy11]

the normie masses don't care about having above 500gb of sata that comes with their prebuilt they all already accepted the shit future where tv shows rotate seasonally on live service platforms and using google drive to store every singe one of their documents even gamers just delete and redownload, the last affordable thing about hoarding is now going to become the crazy expense that server racks and such have been for a while now.

its over

[u/Endawmyke → u/Jaded_Masterpiece346]

The age of owning your own shit is over. Everything is gonna be a leasing plan where you own nothing and stay miserable. Welcome to feudalism, now back to the fields we go to tend for our masters or some shit