Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIDK man, I bought a 10 pack of cheap thumb drives on Amazon a year ago, just big enough for giving to friends full of files or installing Linux or whatever. They were microcenter brand… Not high quality.
The other day I used the last two, took them to work. Went to buy another pack? More than double the price I paid last week.
Yeah yeah it’s flash, not HDDs. I don’t think it matters. Everyone is riding the “computer get more expensive” train. And once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down.
We’re boned.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s my point - it makes sense for high demand for GPUs and RAM to leak into lower supply and hence higher price for other high density microchips that use the same process and are made in the same fabs - something which your experience seems to confirm - but HDDs are mechanical magnetic storage devices were the only microchip is a pretty basic controller.
HDDs are about as related to GPUs and RAM as power sources.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s a fair assessment.