What is up with Spin HDD Prices!

kar said:
I think SSD prices have remained fairly decent, though surely with NAND prices spiking the past few months that will change too, sadly.

Rotational mass storage is where it's been proper stupid.
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I've noticed ssd prices going up, used to be able to get 2TB SSD's for around £100, now £130-150.... I noticed due to buying 2x2TB drives and thought damn, these are expensive now lol
 
lsg1r said:
I've noticed ssd prices going up, used to be able to get 2TB SSD's for around £100, now £130-150.... I noticed due to buying 2x2TB drives and thought damn, these are expensive now lol
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With Micron pulling out of the consumer market looks like the 'free lunch' on SSDs is over too :(
 
I was going to wait a bit but caved in the end, and put a pre-order in for x2 6TB Toshiba N300 drives. 7200rpm and 512MB cache (replacing 2TB 5400rpm disks). They cost me £150 each. Which I think actually is a good price given the current market? I was originally looking for just 4TB drives but cheapest I could find was about £140. So this seemed like a much better deal. Doubt I'll see them until late Jan.
 
Firegod said:
I was going to wait a bit but caved in the end, and put a pre-order in for x2 6TB Toshiba N300 drives. 7200rpm and 512MB cache (replacing 2TB 5400rpm disks). They cost me £150 each. Which I think actually is a good price given the current market? I was originally looking for just 4TB drives but cheapest I could find was about £140. So this seemed like a much better deal. Doubt I'll see them until late Jan.
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Insane price, WD 8TB Elements new were £150, and I bought a WD 16TB Elements Recertified for £175
 
I don't think you can compare those as they differ in operation. You always pay more for a dedicated NAS HDD. The WD drive is a desktop disk which comes with a 2 year limited warranty. The N300 is designed for 24x7 operation and a 3 year extended warranty. It has vibration sensors and a large cache for sustained heavy throughput and a 180 TB/year rating. I couldn't even find anything specified for the WD drive. Hopefully that explains the differences.

EDIT: Apologies as my initial post didn't say that these were for a NAS and not just regular Desktop use.
 
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Firegod said:
I don't think you can compare those as they differ in operation. You always pay more for a dedicated NAS HDD. The WD drive is a desktop disk which comes with a 2 year limited warranty. The N300 is designed for 24x7 operation and a 3 year extended warranty. It has vibration sensors and a large cache for sustained heavy throughput and a 180 TB/year rating. I couldn't even find anything specified for the WD drive. Hopefully that explains the differences.
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Recert comes with 1 year. tbh though if it's going to fail it's going to fail in six months

I don't care if it fails at the point that HD capacity is useless, I've had drives even now 320GB that still work, so I don't care if they die at that age.

I do have a couple of Toshiba drives they seem decent, not much vibration and seek noise. It's just annoying the vast differences in prices...for reasons.
 
I was hoping these things would peak in price but looks like the opposite - just keep going up.

At this rate may well just sell my stack of 6TBs and suck it up since at least the 6ers will defray it a bit.
 
Firegod said:
I was going to wait a bit but caved in the end, and put a pre-order in for x2 6TB Toshiba N300 drives. 7200rpm and 512MB cache (replacing 2TB 5400rpm disks). They cost me £150 each. Which I think actually is a good price given the current market? I was originally looking for just 4TB drives but cheapest I could find was about £140. So this seemed like a much better deal. Doubt I'll see them until late Jan.
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If you have the money bigger is actually better value, basically fixed cost of case/motor etc and the rest is made up of the storage capacity differences... paid £360 each for 2x 18tb exos a week or so ago.... annoyingly they've gone up 20% over what I was paying before. I think 18GB is probably the sweet spot at the moment when it comes to cost.

Not had much experience of Toshiba (I really should try them, they're supposed to be based on HGST tech iirc which were my favourite drives in the past) but I find WD (atleast my shucked elements which are red pro) have a high pitch noise to them when active, especially compared to my exos.
 
I've been holding onto a bunch of old spinny hard drives I was using for Chia farming but stopped a while ago, they're usual WD elements/my books mostly 16/18TB, I was just being lazy when it came to actually selling them.

I have 8 x 16TB drives in my NAS don't really need to keep all of these anymore.

Should get my post count up a bit so I can sell them in MM just been slacking on posting much lately!
 
My disks finally arrived after pre-ordering back in Dec. Ouch! Insane to have to wait 2 months for a delivery. :cry: Just finishing off the volume repair now.
 
Pricing still seems to be getting worse, as does availability. I kinda wish I'd stuck with my plan to buy my drives early last month, deferring my new NAS purchase to May/June means they'd have been sat around without being tested until then though. Fingers crossed for some form of price drop by the time I need to order...
 
Snapshot said:
Very, very unlikely for at least a couple of years, just like RAM and SSDs.
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You're probably right, but I can still hope lol. My NAS upgrade is looking like it will cost me way more than anticipated at this point. At least it should be a good while before I'll need to upgrade it again...
 
Yeah it’s getting pricey.prices seem to have firmly crossed £25 a tb now and sales seem to be squeezing supply. Will we cross £30 tb I wonder.
 
Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame - The Register

Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.

Seagate and Western Digital, two of the Big Three makers of rotating disk drives, confirmed during recent earnings conference calls that they have already flogged all of their manufacturing output.

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:(
 
HungryHippos said:
I've been holding onto a bunch of old spinny hard drives I was using for Chia farming but stopped a while ago, they're usual WD elements/my books mostly 16/18TB, I was just being lazy when it came to actually selling them.

I have 8 x 16TB drives in my NAS don't really need to keep all of these anymore.

Should get my post count up a bit so I can sell them in MM just been slacking on posting much lately!
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I'd be interested if you do end up selling any...
 
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