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.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 months 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 3 months 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.