Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
There's one exception to this - HAMR added additional components, and a corresponding increase in BOM cost, but there's probably a learning curve on this.
However the recent AI data center boom is probably hitting HDDs in two ways - (a) general demand for anything datacenter-related, and (b) high DRAM prices, with most HDDs containing 256-512MB of DDR3. (I haven't physically examined the newest drives - they may be DDR4 and go beyond 512MB; also the 40TB supposedly includes NAND flash, adding yet more cost)
How old is your NVMe?
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
It failed for a reason before, so it will likely fail again before the end of its usual lifecycle.
idk, it was such a traumatic experience for me that I decided to pass on recertified HDDs.
If a single HDD failing is traumatic then you're doing something wrong. At absolute minimum you should be in raid1. Backups should amount to snapshots that can be restored in a single step.
I wasn't storing anything important on it anyway, mostly movies ripped from Blu-rays. So its failure wasn't traumatic. However I expected it to last at least three years, but it died after exactly 365 days of use. The seller refused to send a replacement, and legally speaking, they were in the right.
Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s
I usually don't spite people or companies but in this case I hope all these AI slop bullshit machines fail & fail hard.
So that we can get hardware at sane prices for actually useful thing. And to serve as a warning to never ever do such a stupidly disruptive shit ever again.
Yeah I'd prefer it to be even cheaper but the prices for HDDs aren't too bad.
When I bought these they were peak GB/$, which is a fair couple of years ago.
But for me hdd prices feel like when people were panicking about crypto going down to prices that hadn't been seen in... days.
Now RAM and GPU prices, yeah. Those are bloody expensive.
It is 2x the price of just 2 years ago, it's too bad.