Storage prices in the past decade

>1tb HDD price 2007 = $160
>1tb HDD price 2009 = $60
>1tb HDD price 2013 = $60
>1tb HDD price 2015 = $60
>1tb HDD price 2017 = $60
what the fuck happened?

dumb frogposter

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Floods in Thailand

Chink warehouses getting fucked, happens every year now, I'm sure not by accident

>year end sales
thats the same price you get in 2010 dipshit
nothings changed

Peaceful coexistence.

That was an excuse for the past decade.
I guess they are still recovering

You can get a 7200 for $48 you lying faggot frog

>Seagate
You're unironically better off throwing your money into the trash

Buy higher density you dumb bastard.

there were 8TB for under $160 several times over the past few months.
That's $20 per TB.

>he doesn't understand mtbf and basic statistics
>probably got a C on his stats class

> be Seagate
> run out of drives
> "let's ship house bricks instead, nobody will notice."
>
> people noticed

They could have built a new spindle motor factory somewhere else by now

MTBF is trash made up number by the manufacturers. There's another metric you should be going by, do you know what it is?

>not using SSD

minimum bill of materials.

Sure, instead of total cost you should look at cost per gb
40gb - .50
80gb - .29
160gb - .081
250gb - .068
320gb - .065
500gb - .046
1tb - .041
1.5tb - .039
2tb - .030
3tb - .023
4tb - .025
5tb - .026
6tb - .025
8tb - .027
10tb - .032
12tb - .036

now, as for 1tb, a new 1tb drive sots around 40$ not 60

you need space you need space.
an ssd for anything more then boot and application launch is fucking wasted.

>not buying refurbed HGST 3tb server drives for $60

get good

ehm you can get 2tb for 60eur. So its kinda not true..

Thanks to inflation, you'd need almost $70 of today's dollars to match the buying power of $60 in 2009 dollars. Also, I'm pretty sure you can get a 1TB HDD for more like $50 today.

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>minimum bill of materials.
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Why haven't we really advanced on the terabytes?

It's been years and years and 4TB is still like the highest available capacity for the general public.

Where are the 16TB drives? 32TB? 64TB?
Have we really reached a storage limit plateau?

MAMR is expected to allow HDDs to hit ~40TB by 2025.

Ladyboys in Thailand.

>5400 rpm

the 5400rpm today kicks the fucking shit out of 2007's versions.

but rpm is mostly good for launching programs and random read, as long as you use a ssd for programs, storing files on a hdd almost doesn't matter what speed said hdd is.

look at my post here
right now there is a price premium on 10 and 12tb drives, but everything 3-8tb is all in that realm of sweet sport, with 3tb hitting the price crown.

and the price has not drastically shifted down because we haven't gotten a massive platter upgrade, the only reason 8-12tb came down out of stupidly fucking retarded price range was because we got better at putting more in without also fucking longevity.

the next platter hike we are going to see 12tb shift down to the price of 4tb, but fuck knows when that will happen.

Who cares, where is my affordable flash? I'd love to replace my current 16TB NAS with one drive by 2025.

affordability won't happen, die space is a premium and will always cost about the sale, the best we can hope is power nm processes come fast for this, that and stacking takes off in a big way.

I actually prefer low rpm drives because they make less noise.

what is the Sup Forums approved hdd brand?
aren't they all just the same shit so the cheapest per capacity is the best?

nobody needs more than 128gb ssd.

>Pictures in 2017
>Saving movies instead of streaming in 2017
>Saving music instead of streaming in 2017

You only need like 2-4 games installed at once unless you have adhd

b8

Those 4 games will go beyond the allotted space alone

its three times the size.

HDD manufacturers decided competing was not great and formed a cartel.
Best thing you can do to fix this and make them pay is researching the subject and calling your representative urging them to start an investigation.

SSDs also help with loading screens in games! I guess it helps with any application that needs to keep importing big resources.

There are base costs to producing shit, just because the storage is less dense doesnt mean the entire production line for that drive doesnt still set a base expense.

Wow it's almost like there's a bare minimum cost floor to manufacture something and also inflation factors.

Cry to me about (yield harvested) 250GB drives costing $40 when the 500 are $50 and then realize how stupid you are.

no, not that much. ssds and hdds hit a wall around 400~mb read speeds where anything faster really doesn't help. there are a few games like fallout 4 that are made so fucking horribly that they decided to not compress anything, eat fuckloads of space, and hey, you get a faster load because the devs are just that shit, but most games don't double hdds loads even when offloaded to an nvme.

in all honesty is more important to defragment your hdd than load it to an ssd.

everything costs about the same till you start needing more than 1 platter.

>3.5" 64TB SSD
>2017

That chart is such bullshit.

>hdd manufacturers spend all their monies on thai ladyboys
>"shit we're nearly bankrupt guys we need means to make more money"

I-its the floods I swear, production is difficult, p-please understand.

Imagine spending 572k USD on a fucking SSD.

and less heat

only half a million, cheap man

Its not like you have many other options if you need that type of density and speed.

Fug you almost have no choice not to fuck one.

Why not buy 40 2TB SSD?

>SMR

wrong. in 2010 a 2tb was about $110