News Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket In Asia Due to New Chia Cryptocoin, Scalpers Capitalize

[Admin]

New reports from Seagate, China, and Japan reveal price hikes in hard drives over the last couple of weeks.

Hard Drive Prices Skyrocket In Asia Due to New Chia Cryptocoin, Scalpers Capitalize : Read more

 

[InvalidError]

Time to break out those "Warning: Tears Ahead!" signs. Again.

 

[USAFRet]

Time to break out those "Warning: Tears Ahead!" signs. Again.

I just popped for a 16TB Tosh Enterprise.

To replace a 8TB Seagate that momentarily goes offline and causes the Volume to report a problem.

 

[TheJoker2020]

Hard Drives have been at ridiculous prices for several years now, this just makes things even worse.

The only Hard Drives I have bought in the last 5+ years have all been WD USB-3 drives on Amazon specials when they are literally half the price of the SATA equivelent drives.!

Does anyone know why the prices have been so high for several years.?

 

[InvalidError]

Does anyone know why the prices have been so high for several years.?

HDDs seemed plenty cheap to me, can't get much cheaper than they already were (~$40 for 1TB) since there is a significant minimum manufacturing cost to all the parts and machining necessary to make a functional single-platter drive.

 

[TheJoker2020]

HDDs seemed plenty cheap to me, can't get much cheaper than they already were (~$40 for 1TB) since there is a significant minimum manufacturing cost to all the parts and machining necessary to make a functional single-platter drive.

I bought 6, 8 and 10TB HDD's several years ago, and in 2019 I looked at the prices and they were all noticibly higher than I paid in previous years for the same capacity and even models (mostly WD Red drives, plus one Iron Wolf).!

 

[peachpuff]

We need a "how to mine with your hard drive" article, let me just open my 16tb drive now and wipe my other ones of "stuff"

 

[Chung Leong]

Malware eating up all your storage space is just around the corner...

 

[Giroro]

What data is Chia actually storing on its farmer's computers, and can its users be imprisoned when it turns out to be illegal?

Also, where are the financial transactions going to be processed?