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Yeah I can't wait for these to drop as $2000 SAS HDDs that are somehow more expensive than NVME SSDs of the same capacity.
AI hasn't found a way to make storage ridiculously expensive yet, so this could tie in neatly!
But friend, it has? SSDs have (on average) tripled in price in the last 3 months. SSDs are genuinely the only storage that matters outside of a server rack.
Tbf, I meant disk drive storage!
HDD prices have also skyrocketed. Even the refurbished/recertified market. For example, I could previously get a manufactured recertified 22TB (HC570, I think) drive for around $299 around two months ago. Now, that same drive is at $409. That's over $100 in around that timeframe, and is also for recertified drives.
Yep, bought a 10TB recertified drive for $80 last year. Same drive is almost $300 now.
Jesus!