Western Digital has introduced three new Ultrastar HDDs with capacities ranging from 22 to 26 terabytes. This summer, a limited number of customers will receive the hard drives. No pricing or release ... Western Digital Unleashes First 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR HDDs
Indeed... 14 TB has been stuck at 230-250 € (Amazon DE) for nearly 2 years now. I bought my first one late 2020 on a price dip for 227 € and they are still around there today... (thanks Chia for f*king up the market for over 9 months)
UltraSMR? My guess that this is at least as bad as regular SMR - just higher density. I'm excited about the higher capacity CMR drives though. Hopefully it will drive down high capacity CMR hard drive costs over time; that is if their initially limited availability becomes much less limited. I guess we'll see.
