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HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] phx@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking on that yesterday.Mass local storage affordable? No no no, better to drive those prices way up so that we can sell you "cloud" services instead.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

My company is needing to go away from external storage for local only backups, as 2,4" 4TB HDDs are shit and unreliable and 4TB SSDs (like Samsung T5 Evo) are going from 200€ to 600€ (per disk. And we need 3 of those).
Instead we are pivoting to S3(-compatible)-Cloud as the main off-site storage.
I am certainly not thrillee but on the otger side, customers arent willing to lug around 3,5" HDD cases so....What else is there?