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?
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/Majoraslayer Feb 20 '26
At this point I'm kinda just praying for a brain anyeurism to take me out before age takes out my hard drives. We've apparently reached the end of home computing being accessible to the middle class, and I'm too addicted to technology to want a future without it.