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Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Who is still using HDD these days?
My 20TB zfs mirrored NAS. I'm not buying 40TB of ssds in this economy.
Anyone who needs mass storage, that doesn't need it at high speed, and don't want to pay like $100/TB for it. Most HDDs are like $20/TB, give or take.
HDD is still good for backups.
How much for 100TB of drives $1500
How much for 100TB of NVME $10,000
Yes I still use hard drives in my threadripper servers and NAS.
HDDs are great for self-hosted apps. I own a NAS with three WD 16TB HHDs amd 2M. 2 SSDs.
Such a naive take
I do, I didn't really need to spend 3-4x the money for my server storage and regular HDDs are fast enough for media streaming. 6x18tb would've been unnecessarily expensive as SSDs