Glad I bought a bunch of 20 TB ones some months back. I'm good for a few years.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.
Or buy cloud storage.
If two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I'm assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.
I'm on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.
O, that is a real cool feature. So you just lose space then as they fail, not redundancy.
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Honestly I don't think it matters so much...
I think we reached peaked IT few years ago.
Nobody needs (that's the crux term here, need, not "want" or "desire" or "wish") a bigger hard drive. It's the same way nobody needs an 8K TV and they they aren't sold. Why?
I'm glad you ask, it's all connected! If you stick to "just" a 4K TV, because you have normal human eyes, then the content you need is "just" 4K so a movie is just 2GB or so... and thus you don't need a larger hard drive, thus not CPU, GPU, memory, etc. The current setup is simply "good enough".
I can already hear the steps of that ONE person who edits 360 8K videos for National Geographic preparing to argue "actually...!" and yes, they ARE right. Some people, professionals, DO need super high res, super high framerate, super high everything ... but that's NOT your average consumer. You average consumer STOPPED upgrading because they need to. Most consumer who still upgrade mostly do it because of habit, because they get coerced into it (e.g. MicroSlop Windows 11) but not because they genuinely need to.
So... yes I "wish" I had better everything, including hard drive, but the truth is we "peaked" in terms of actually required spec a couple of years ago, same for phones that are now the same equivalent small slabs.
My point is I'm wondering if this AI bet will have deeper consequence for the industry overall with the realization for most people (again, please before you reply : your average consumer, the person who browse the Web, watch a video of a TV series, play some games for fun, NOT a professional!) that the hardware they have TODAY is good enough.
I don't know if it's just because I've grown a bit over the last 15-ish years, but a computer also seems to perform better for longer now. My 1070 I bought in 2016 (I think?) was clearly starting to lack behind with newer games after 4 years. My current 3070, which is 4 years old now, just keeps performing in new games.
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if 100% of the hardware goes to running data centers then we'll just get cloud computers which are really good and fun to use and we like them for $40
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Have they actually gone up that much? Oraybe just specific models? I just bought a 12TB NAS drive on Black Friday and the price difference was less than $20 compared to when I tried to do the exact same thing the year before.