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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I recently checked on the price of the used 12TB server drive I bought a couple years ago. It was 80 then. It's 260 now. Same seller.

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[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Good idea. I just looked at a drive I bought six months ago and it's up 40% or so. Wish I'd have got two now.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Three months ago I put two 20TB hard drives in my cart for $350 each. This week I had to pull the trigger on them and they were $420 each

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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 7 points 6 months ago

Bought a 20 TB external for ~$270 a few months ago. It's now $400:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09VCXWPQG

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[–] kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

1TB SSD I bought at the end of 2024 for $47 is $142 now

12TB HDDs were $104 a piece at the same time and are now $300 each.

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[–] tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I'm guessing you got similar drives to the ones I got. I paid ~$72 each (4x 12TB), and now the same HGST DC drives from the same seller are $220. Just glad I got them when I did, even though now I have to continually prune the data so it all fits within this forever limit.

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