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Re:Seagate Announces 16TB HDD by Symmetry on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:40PM (#18612292)
Cost isn't linear with storage. On Newegg a 1 TB drive is $37, a 2 TB is $61, a 4TB is $84, a 6 TB is $158 for $26/TB. The metal shell of the HD costs a certain amount no matter how much storage is inside. Still not a full factor of 10 but certainly more significant.
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Re:Seagate Announces 16TB HDD by zzzcpan on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:47PM (#18612360)
HDD market is basically a monopoly with arbitrary prices not reflecting actual cost of anything. They only compete on price with SSDs.
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Re:Seagate Announces 16TB HDD by ryacko on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:50PM (#18612396)
It’s a monopoly? Kryder’s law may have ended, but HDD prices were $40 a terabyte two years ago.
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