Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think ten years from now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone even wasting their time on something so small.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kind of the point of my comment was that drive size/cost is stagnating despite the massive technical progress in the space. I bought my first 4TB drive in 2020 ($89). Going back to 2015, I was buying 2TB at the same price ($86). Here in 2026, what’s the ~same price? 4TB ($99). 8TB is $180.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well this is not a tech issue at all, it’s the fact that global economics have become a dumpster fire - particularly, in America. I can’t say I’m certain there are no other factors, but economically everything has gotten out of hand.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    so you say, but people still collect “antique” hardware.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, retro etc. but I wouldn’t consider this to be that. There’s no inherent value of a run-of-the-mill drive with merely lower storage capacity. And certainly not worth a premium.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        it’s not antique yet. i still have my 5.25" diskettes with quest for glory 2 on them and they’re almost antique. give them another couple years.

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