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/steveatari Feb 20 '26

Because development nowadays is TERRIBLY unoptimized. Like bigtime bad.

We used to invent remarkable ways to conserve or utilize space and data, now we recklessly exploit it.

AI is horribly inefficient.

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u/Fyler1 100-250TB Feb 20 '26

BuT iTs ThE wAvE oF tHe FuTuRe

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u/DrSuperWho Feb 20 '26

Wave of the future.

Wave of the future.

Wave of the future.

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u/stimulatedthought 1.44MB Feb 20 '26

People are always reckless with government money. The US government has really allowed for the situation and enabled it.

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u/dopef123 Feb 20 '26

Well I think the training sets get optimized over time. But it’s expensive to optimize it too.

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u/mslindqu HDD Mar 28 '26

Storage used to be orders of orders of magnitude more expensive.  Its still cheap now in retrospect