I've been tracking 12TB HDD prices for replacing a faulty one in my NAS for the past 6 months, I bought 4x 12TB HDD in 2024 for a total of 13k SEK (around 1300 USD) and right now a single one of the same brand/model is selling for 6750-7000 SEK (~675-700 USD).
It is 2x the price of just 2 years ago, it's too bad.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
by reenorap on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:14AM
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Where? Every one that I've seen is double from last year's price.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
by literalAardvark on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:30AM
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I never said last year. I said they're similar to when I bought them.
When I bought these they were peak GB/$, which is a fair couple of years ago.
Might be quite a bit more than a couple, mine are from mid-2024 and cost less than half than current prices.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
by literalAardvark on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:52AM
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Yeah i guess I'm just compressing time too much.
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.
Yeah I'd prefer it to be even cheaper but the prices for HDDs aren't too bad.