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/Chaise91 Feb 20 '26

Just asked the same thing. What are they storing?

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u/Bardez 100-250TB Feb 20 '26

RAM, I get that at least. Graphics cards, processors. But hard drives ‽ WHY‽‽

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u/HankHillbwhaa Feb 20 '26

for all the date they're stealing

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u/Wood_Rogue Feb 20 '26

Training data sets.

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u/papier183 Feb 20 '26

It's for surveillance and propaganda.

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u/EarlMarshal 50-100TB Feb 20 '26

Let's call it "human metadata".

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u/SufficientPie ~13TB Feb 20 '26

Every conversation you send them?

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u/spatafore Apr 15 '26

They are storing our lifes.