Hard drives.... I remember those things... didn't I used to use them before the Great HDD and SSD Extinction of 2025-2026?
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
Thankfully for many folks there's the option of going either with whitelabel or recertified drives!
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
Those have also shot up though. The past couple years is the first time I can recall cost per GB increasing rather than decreasing in a sustained manner. And it's been all forms of storage.
reenorap · · focus · HN ↗
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
KronisLV · · focus · HN ↗
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
fc417fc802 · · focus · HN ↗