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Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s a cascade effect. Memory pricing went up -> Increased price of SSD with DRAM cache -> Increased pricing of DRAM-less SSDs after demand shifted -> HDDs became significantly more cost effective again as a storage device but now the demand for them increased so price went up for them as well.

2 months ago I’ve got Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB for 235€ now that’s the price of 2TB.

I’ve got 8TB Seagate Exos 7E10 8TB for 182€ in May now it’s almost 260€.

We’re fucked…

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73ms@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
if you are looking this from the US that is not necessarily the only thing that could be driving prices up though. You’ve got tariffs and a much weaker dollar than it used to be right now…

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- azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  A weak dollar will work great for you when you bring back all those manufacturing jobs from overseas and start exporting the surplus production. Any day know. Any day.
  
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- WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  US prices are just EU prices + sales tax now
  
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