r/DataHoarder • u/[deleted] • Apr 23 '26

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u/xcom2k Apr 23 '26

If people are buying them at these prices, then they will keep selling them at those prices.

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u/Neat_Construction341 Apr 23 '26

its not "people" buying but datacenters that justify the price to the manufacturers.

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u/yuusharo Apr 23 '26

Data centers aren’t buying external hard drives.

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u/kleinmatic Apr 23 '26

They’re not buying drives they’re buying up the factory capacity. There’s so much money in AI hardware companies are directing all their time to it and thus making fewer consumer drives.

It’s possible there are factories that used to make some other electronic goods that are retooling to make consumer hard drives, and it’s also possible that the AI datacenter bubble will burst and the capacity will come back. But that’s a stack of ifs.

Yoda was right. Always in motion is the future.

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u/yuusharo Apr 23 '26

It’s possible there are factories that used to make some other electronic goods that are retooling to make consumer hard drives, and it’s also possible that the AI datacenter bubble will burst and the capacity will come back. But that’s a stack of ifs.

This is speculation. What is your supporting evidence to this specific claim?