Verified Actual Datahoarders when?

[Zerrymause]

With Chia likely driving up storage costs, when will there be a program to get MSRP high capacity drives into the hands of verified actual datahoarders?

 

Taking guesses.

[Speedbird]

Maybe once there's an actual shortage? Hard drives are available at the same prices as always here.

[coderrquitsreality]

3 minutes ago, Zerrymause said:

With Chia likely driving up storage costs

Damn chia plants!

 

Verified Actual Gamer Information might have some information about drives

[Karim Bizid]

I've been monitoring it for the last few weeks (because I was planning on doing a big system upgrade coming weeks) and here in the Netherlands prices have gone up, but not a lot.
Just a few euro's (€3 - €7) per item so far.

Also Ryzen tends to stay a bit more available over here than I see happening in the US.
GPU's and stuff like Intel NUC's is still a nightmare though.

[KingslayerNana]

57 minutes ago, Speedbird said:

Maybe once there's an actual shortage? Hard drives are available at the same prices as always here.

All the external hard drives on Bestbuy Canada has already gone up by $80 and on backorder.

[QuantumSingularity]

Back in 2011-2012 when Thailand was flooded and HDD factories seized operation, it took about a week for the storage prices to explode with 300%+. Whatever happens though we won't be on the same page as the GPU shortage. Storage in general is a much cheaper product than a GPU. You might not like the price compared to the current or previous prices, but you will be able to afford one. I doubt there will be some this stupid to try and scalp HDDs and SSD to sell for $1000+. We might see 2 and 3 times price increase, which will make $100 drive into a $300 one and there won't be a HDD for less than $100, but it's not as bad as the GPU costing more than the rest of the system. Plus we are heading for another crypto crash in few months, so there will be A TON of cheap, used GPUs once again.