What Happened to Hard Drive Prices?

[DVDR_Dog]

Gone are the days of bargain sales. You would think with the advent of SSD, spinners would be cheaper. Kind of bums me out. All the laptops at work have 256GB SSD, most of our users systems are laptop. The installations have powerful towers, still they don't have much storage locally, it's all on the server. Did the cloud make local storage less of an issue? Who knows, things change so fast lately.

 

[starhawk69]

 

[DVDR_Dog]

Exactly, RAM prices as well. If this some of that tariff nonsense, really a disguised tax to shift more of the burden on the lower to middle income folks in the US that particularly hits Asian goods brought into the US? Come on now folks, who do you ultimately pays those taxes as evidenced by these high semiconductor price increases not the manufacturers, the consumers.

 

[Diguelo]

Hard drives as in Spinning platter drives it seems are no longer for sale. My suppliers have none in stockj and have ceased trading in them

SSD wave at the fiture.

Then comes the silicone chip blockage again which will be sorted out just in time for the christmas rush same as it was last year and the year before.

Oh well. Roll on christmas

 

[DVDR_Dog]

Hard drives as in Spinning platter drives it seems are no longer for sale. My suppliers have none in stockj and have ceased trading in them

Dunno about that. Any guess what a 12 TB SSD might cost? SSD is great for C drives and a secondary working drive but nothing but spinners can do massive data storage at a at least reasonable price.
I still contend if you want a NAS or DAS with huge storage and not have to take a second mortgage, spinners are the only answer currently.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

I want to say with caution it looks like prices have hit their peak. They just crested the hill so don't hold your breath but by Christmas. The dream of AI folks have been waking up. Musk's court proceedings against Open AI has forced the realities to be faced mandating the books be made public.
On another note Intel is in negotiations with Apple. In case you haven't noticed Apple computers have come way down in price. Their new CEO wants to be known as more than an iPhone maker.

 

[garibaldo'']

I want to say with caution it looks like prices have hit their peak. They just crested the hill so don't hold your breath but by Christmas. The dream of AI folks have been waking up. Musk's court proceedings against Open AI has forced the realities to be faced mandating the books be made public.
On another note Intel is in negotiations with Apple. In case you haven't noticed Apple computers have come way down in price. Their new CEO wants to be known as more than an iPhone maker.

Apple new CEO only in september... WD is accepting orders just for 2027... Those AI bastards are buying everything for they datacenters...

 

[Diguelo]

Dunno about that. Any guess what a 12 TB SSD might cost? SSD is great for C drives and a secondary working drive but nothing but spinners can do massive data storage at a at least reasonable price.
I still contend if you want a NAS or DAS with huge storage and not have to take a second mortgage, spinners are the only answer currently.

Shops and warehouse prices for 20 - 40 TB SSD currently (Apr 26) running 3 - 500 GBP.

A rather snazzy new plugin Graphics card format M.2 card holder that can hold 6 to 10 M.2 NVME cards and access at the speeds of graphics porting are looking much like the storage "Wave of the Future" Had a mess with one the other day at work and i was shocked at the data speed it was "Looking Like" it could throw out. It does however generate a new problem. Well a couple actually. Heat and space. We got round the heat problem using a Graphics riser cable to take the board out of the confines of the graphics port area and used a 3D printer to make a housing with a push pull 180mm pair of fans exhausting the heat out of the top vents. Scary Raid data figures, currently we got a prjected speed out of it at 12 - 15 GB/sec data transfer, SUPPOSEDLY. Then of course we hit a bottleneck, big one. The motherboard

Z13PE-D16 Dual 5th Gen Xeon EATX Sever MB w CPU Carrier along with a pair of 4.2GHz Threadripper processors.​

Couldn't keep up with the stream. A problem for another time I feel. The overall ethos is super duper speeds to throw data out across a couple of hundred miles of network at the same speeds as the internals in the server. My first thought was put a CO2 extinguisher at each terminal, the Manager gave me a worried look. (Billionares have no sense of humour). The story progresses ..............