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Western Digital sells out 2026 HDD capacity as AI demand pushes prices higher

41 points by GeoAtreides

by h4kunamata

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Based on Amazon reviews, good luck!!
I am building a NAS and went to check its reviews on Amazon before buying 5 disks.
Bruuu, the USA is known for selling used stuff as new on Amazon, the amount of reviews with "new" disks having thousands of spin-time, hundreds of hours powered on, disks dead on arrival or dying within less than half year, WD is not the HDD you want.
idk what their USA store is doing to destroy these disks, and for what I can tell, it is the only option we have on Amazon, there is no Amazon UK or Amazon DE which the quality are far superior than Amazon US.
Keep in mint that a WD 4TB NAS cost now $200 so yeah.

by rationalist

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Thank you to the anonymous HN user that mentioned HDD prices were going to go up last year, I was able to buy my media server HDDs in time.

by gymbeaux

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The only consolation to computer parts skyrocketing in price is that when the house of cards comes tumbling down, I’ll be able to pick up a lot of 100 secondhand H100 GPUs for $100 and 64TB of DDR5 ECC RAM for $64.