I’m in the same boat for hard drives. I bought 20 TB hard drives for $360 each three years ago. Today, they’re more than double that price, selling for $880!

The worst part is, I have one drive that’s failing and 5 more in a NAS that are about due to be swapped for newer ones. It’s the worst timing for this price hike!

Huh. I can’t add screenshots to this thread for some reason. Well, you can check their current price on Amazon. I buy the Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives.

How have things gotten so bad?

Because AI companies pre-ordered all the resources needed to build their data centers for the next decade, which means there are practically no computer resources for the average consumer for years to come. Everything being produced is going toward data center development now.

So everything still on the market has gone way up in value, being a rare commodity. Basic supply and demand, except a handful of rich losers have tipped the scale of the market, effectively screwing over every regular person who wants computer parts.