Why are HDDs still so expensive.

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Looking to pull together something small and expand my storage.

checking out 8TB and 10TB drives. The prices are still ridiculously expensive.

my 6TB Ironwolf was £160 some 5yrs ago and the 6TB Ironwolf is still around that price. 8TB is over £200 and 10TB is stratospheric.

what is going on. Why is this old tech still costing us that much?
 
Bouton Aide said:
Doesn’t matter. Supply and demand.
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Tbh that might be the truth. Before the advent of mainstream SSD everyone had a HDD in their computer. Nowadays not many would require one. 2TB SSD offers significant performance and that size seems to be the perfect solution for most people.

less sales means their HDD manufacturer needing to het higher margin on whatever sales they do generation. Even in data centre space it used to be all HDD now there are plenty enterprise SSDs that being deployed.

the silly thing about SSD vs HDD, my Ironwolf can sustain a very good sequential transfer rate above 100MB+ I believe. I compared it with a cheapy SSD (dram less and with very little cache). The SSD falls flat compared with the HDD when we are talking about shifting big amount of data.
 
EsaT said:
For some reason (shipping/sales volumes?) prices of internal retail drives are lto higher than what you can get external drive.
Hence "shucking".
https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/ho...drives-for-cheap-by-shucking-external-drives/
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Heard about this. But isn’t it a complete gamble? Also haven’t WD put a stop to this by soldering on the controller circuit board to the HDD.

also I don’t think every TLC drives are made the same. The controllers are the weakest link. My 1TB Kingston Drive was slower than my Ironwolf when doing data backup after the initial burst speed ran out and for some reason small file transfer rate was less than HDD. It was a TLC but I suspect it was a very densely packed TLC. That’s why I am ever so aware that QLC drive is just not gonna be viable for most of my usage.
 
What storage do data centre people use. Surely these HDD solution should have cheaper cost over time as they are still the dominant sales. And can’t that stuff be trickled down.
 
Maxtor was long gone before the whole market consolation started around 2010s. Currently there is only seagate, western digital and toshiba. I don’t think toshiba competes in the large capacity end of the market.

anyways it is not good news for consumers. I also think there is no manufacturers because the market is not a growing one so there is no incentive for new players to come in and disrupt the status quo.

Unlike the SSD market.
 
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