really large hdds are still really expensive, the prices have somewhat plateaued at this rate. Nobody really needs such massive drives, and their isn’t exactly an incentive to produce larger drives, especially now that everyone seems to be moving to ssds.
Storage is cheaper than it’s ever been if you get HDDs
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 week ago
They aren’t though, price per GB on renewed storage with warranty is less than 10 cents a GB. That’s insanely low compared to just five years ago.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
that’s also renewed storage, and i guess compared to the last decade it’s pretty good.
But even then compared to the continual creep of file sizes, it’s debatable. I mean 4k took off the last 5-10 years. I have yt videos ranging from 1-20 GB for 4k content now.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Cheaper, but it’s still not cheap and I really don’t have a whole lot of disposable income rn.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You can get 12tb renewed drives for $100. A lot will even have decent warranties. If you’re lying for like, 3 streaming services, and cancel all three in favor of saving your own media locally it pays for itself quickly. Especially if you download stuff from like HBO Max.
This is doubly true now that streaming services have started raising prices and pay walling content.