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

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46 points·GeoAtreides··4 comments

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.

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.

Both WD and Seagate “refurbish” and resell used hard drives, and that process involves wiping the SMART data, basically resetting the odometer to 0. I bought a couple of refurbished Exos drives from eBay a year ago and they still work. But there’s no telling how much use they got before they were refurbished. Maybe only 10TB written, maybe 100PB. Complete crapshoot. They shouldn’t be allowed to wipe SMART data to make it look like a brand new drive to the unsuspecting consumer.

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.

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