Comment on HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

Hamknight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are they used HDDs? Nothing worse than buying something that’s on the brink of dying.

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  • Hamknight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nope! They’re brand new shuckable (you can take our the hdd) external drives. I’ve have 10 14tb drives in my bad that all came from this. And if you keep the enclosures, you can still warrenty them.

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Used HDD aren’t on the brink of dying some them could last decades.

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• Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thanks I didn’t think of doing that. I have sole hard drove to replace the difference on price is 50% for some huge sdd. I found this link, is it hood info or ai slop ? quickharddrive.com/…/653/

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  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve trusted this site for a long time. shucks.top

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    • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks I will look into it.

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  • Hamknight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s def Ai, but it seems well curated and the info looks pretty reliable. I go for the western digital drives myself, they seem to have the best reliability. To pop them open it’s just plastic clips, and once you get the corners to pop you can usually pull the rest by hand.

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    • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks for the advice. It made me doubt but I had no obvious clue.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If they are SMR, they are basically DOA (for my use case)

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  • Hamknight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    None of the WD 14tb have been SMR as of yet. Neither have the two 18tb drives I’ve shucked.

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• CtrlAltDefeat@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Like 2 years ago that was just a normal price ffs

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