Why in 2016, can we still not get storage for ~$0.01 per GB?

Why in 2016, can we still not get storage for ~$0.01 per GB?

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Jews, basically.

still have to pay for the materials and manufacturing

Their is nothing wrong with supporting Israel.

magnetic drive r&d basically stopped because of solid state getting so cheap

investors have moved on to the next big thing

They are used drives...

Check'd and Kek'd

>buying used drives

Those Hitachi drives are used and fail within hours of plugging them in

we're saving it for future generations

But you can get storage for $0.007 per GB

Sure bro. Totally not just working pulls from some massive datastores that are being upgraded...

Regardless, thats what raid60 is for.

Who knows what sort of illegal material was on those used drives.

Five years ago, I expected to be able to buy a spindle of terabyte discs at $1/disc by this point in time. Optical tech just all of a sudden started to stagnate and now even bluray discs have an outrageous cost. I blame bluray for everything.

I would for sure fully analyze each disk. But they are probably from a bunch of large array datastores, or possibly from some shit school district's upgrade.

i bought three of them at $9.99
get on my level fucker.

kill yourself poorfag OP

Damn I'd buy them for $9.99 but not $45

Where did you get the $9.99 deal?

You're retarded.
Enjoy not having 100TB of fully redundant and fault tolerant storage for a mere 1500 bucks.

same as OP only that i got lucky on when i chose to buy

Prices were getting pretty low until the floods around 2010 I think. Prices spiked and never dropped back to what they were. If they can sell drives at higher prices, why not keep charging more?

2011 Thailand floods, most of the world's disks are manufactured there.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods

The floods which happened in Thailand or Thailand floods. I remember that day.

Because greedy people want to make money.

You can get hard drives for $15/TB on ebay regularly.

totally legit and definitely not prone to failure

>why not keep charging more?
they used the opportunity to switch to mass producing SSDs and other hardware.
kind of like the factory fires that destroyed RAM production, ddr3 never recovered because they moved onto ddr4 and lpddr4/3

Because there's only like 2 major manufacturers and 1 smaller one left.

>refurb

aw hell nah nigga
even brand new drives shit the bed regularly.

The internet killed the need for physical media.

Why bother with huge disks when you can have your customers stream and download everything?

>Hitachi
>Failing
I beg the differ, used or new those brand last.

>Five years ago, I expected to be able to buy a spindle of terabyte discs at $1/disc by this point in time
you too huh?
it's not like they don't have tb blu rays, they've had them since 2010
and the process of making them was as quick and efficient as making regular blue rays
i guess they never figured out to increase the read/write speed? or they're just milking the market like they are with SD cards. which too have tb capacities, but aren't available for consumers

because goyim exist.

5 years from now, someone will wonder why can we still not get storage for ~$0.01 per TB?

gee, great point. I guess I'll just give all of my personal data to Google™.

They're enterprise drives, and they're just as reliable as the $45 refurbs that OP posted.