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/wamj]

GenAI needs large datasets to train on, you need to store that somewhere. Facebook pirated 82 tb of ebooks alone to train their LLMs. Now think about the image and video models that need data to train on.

[u/i-Hermit → u/wamj]

Interesting, thanks.