I’ve watched hard drive prices go from $12-$13/TB to $18 over the past 9 months. Someone posted on datahoarder about a WD 24TB drive that’s gone up $70 in the past 50 days.
I just hope the new hard drive prices hold steady from manufacturers. Right now new datacenter drives are about $25.5/TB MSRP which kind of caps what refurbs can go for because no one is going to pay $23/TB when they can get new with a longer life and better warranty for a few dollars more. But if those go up enough no reason you couldn’t see $22/TB this year for even the budget manufacturer recertified refurbs.
I checked and I got a 14TB drive for $150 in January 2025, they’re now $250 or more for the same. Really have to hope none of my drives fail in the next 2 years or possibly longer if this whole AI bubble is just a push to get people off personal computers and sell them cloud compute, cloud storage, etc. Rentier-ism because no other way to keep investors happy and profits high while keeping the proles obediently surveilled slaves in your panopticon.
Well I hope my raid array survives until replacement drives are affordable again 😭
I was planning to expand my storage server this year 😐
i was thinking about expanding my storage sometime soon. it appears i was too late and now i need to go back to being selective on what to download
Truthfully I just kept adding SSDS over the last 10 years or so . So I now have like 4 TB in total and unless half of them suddenly die Im probably good.
Phone companies: here, buy our AI phones and online storage! You can’t afford owning any of it now so c’mon!
Smart people: fuck you assholes!
The rest: this is an unboxing video of the next Penis removing IA IPhone! As you can see it removed my penis because I’m brown, but Jake over there still has his penis. As jake walks near white women he is able to Isemimate them all instantly. Jake is white. Once his contract is over the app will remove his penis too. He must pay $300.00 a month to keep his penis. Its actually really affordable.
