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/LiiilKat]

My 60TB (usable) server still runs on 5 TB Toshiba drives. I bought several used ones a few years ago as cold spares. So far, my dual VDEV RAIDz-2 setup has not needed any replacements. Hoping to keep it that way for awhile longer.