Hard drives so expensive and difficult to track down

[aoaaron]

Hey.

I have a 16TB Toshiba enterprise drive I had to return due to a knocking sound. Bigger drive, bigger parts, 7200 RPM but the fairly loud knocking whenever the drive was doing something was IMO inexcusable for a NAS drive.

I got a WD RED 14TB 5400rpm for £320ish which has done a very good job. Whisper quiet.

I then decided I'll buy another.. and BAM. Out of stick everywhere.

I checked other brands.. and stock all over the place for 14+TB drives seems to be horrible.

Anyone had similar experiencE? Are people now buying external drives instead and takin them out and putting them into deskptops instead? i think they call it 'shucking'?

 

[deshepherd]

The company where I work was having problems getting HDDs in the 10TB+ range last year when they were increasing our compute/storage server farm. The problem was believed to be due to worldwide datacentre capacity increasing so rapidly that the top tier companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google etc were basically going to the disk manufactures and putting down orders for their entire production leaving virtually nothing for anyone else.