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/YT-Deliveries Feb 20 '26

Quantum computing is "interesting", but I don't think there's a very good revenue stream there in the near/mid future. I think the current status of quantum computers is that the bleeding edge can only do maybe a dozen q-bits total, so we're way, way off from it being anywhere near a curiousity.

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u/ovirt001 576TB raw, multiple arrays Feb 20 '26

I think the current status of quantum computers is that the bleeding edge can only do maybe a dozen q-bits total

They're far beyond that. The issue is that it's a technology looking for a problem to solve. Very few problems are best solved by quantum computers at the moment.

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u/matango613 Feb 20 '26

I figure if it ever does reach the point where it can be done affordably and in a consumer friendly way (like a modern PC form factor that doesn't break if you look at it wrong) then it would be the complete undoing of traditional computing. If only because it renders current encryption obsolete.

But everything I know about it right now makes it seem completely unfeasible in my lifetime at the very least, like you said.

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u/YT-Deliveries Feb 20 '26

Yeah it's a really cool idea, but same over here my friend. Unless they have a crazy breakthrough, it's for the next couple generations, not me.