Western Digital has today presented its latest effort to catch up with traditional QLC NAND Flash SSDs by improving its HDD offerings. With the latest High-Bandwidth HDDs, Western Digital has implemented two new technologies in a classical multi-platter HDD design. The first innovation comes in a fo...
Tbf, I meant disk drive storage!
HDD prices have also skyrocketed. Even the refurbished/recertified market. For example, I could previously get a manufactured recertified 22TB (HC570, I think) drive for around $299 around two months ago. Now, that same drive is at $409. That’s over $100 in around that timeframe, and is also for recertified drives.
Yep, bought a 10TB recertified drive for $80 last year. Same drive is almost $300 now.
Jesus!