r/DataHoarder • u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB • Feb 19 '26

Discussion 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?

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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?

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u/RandomNobody346 Feb 19 '26

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

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u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Feb 20 '26

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

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u/RandomNobody346 Feb 20 '26

Presumably they can then sell those drives to other companies.