HDD Sales dropped by 30 to 40% the past year

I've only ever used my computers for gaming and web-browsing, I've never felt the need to store a bunch of personal stuff on them.

As far as reliability goes I haven't had an SSD die on me yet, but had plenty of HDD's that did.

 

Brought an Intel 330 120gb in 2012 removed him 3 years or 4 ago replaced with a 250gb Evo sata drive for main os ... Also have a crucial mx 500 512gb and Samsung 980 1tb so far no sad died on me ever .... That said I suspect my Intel 330 might be dead due to inactivity by now

 

the data might be toast but the drive should be fine.

 

I think it has just win7 from my 3770k days ... So I do not care for the data ! I might just gift it to a poor soul that still operates HDD.

 

I had 2 SSD failures, both OCz.
First was a Vertex 2 60GB, started getting hugely increased write corrections (cant remember the term) after about a year. The 2nd was the Relaunch OCz Vector cos I felt it worth seeing if OCz were ok now, that died after a few months.
Put me off OCz forever.
Then bought a Samsung 840 Pro which still works fine but doesnt see much use now.

Many more hard drive failures but all were 10+ years ago.
Some early Western Digital, Seagate, a 4GB Bigfoot, a few IBM Deathstars and most recent 2 Samsung 1TB. Then switched to HGST drives and was saved, life improved!
I've never had a Hitachi or HGST drive failure, they are all I've used since (and the WD equivalent Helium drives).
The only problem was an HGST 4TB NAS drive corrupted when the CPU overheated due to a problem water cooler. It didnt actually fail, just succumbed to the CPUs heat crash.
Most of the data was recovered but lost the timestamps, that drive has continued to work flawlessly since.

I only back up to retired hard drives that are kept offline, making multiple copies of data.
Not had a problem with this.
Also do an OS backup every month and put it on a couple of drives, one working, the other offline.

 

Wow I guess OCZ really does ring a bell for many of us as having lost one of their SSDs. Rightfully so, that suggests not to touch them, if we only knew...

 

I feel so confused; demand of various products are in a steep decline although we are experiencing never-seen-before inflation due "increased demand"... like yeah the veen diagram of these seems to be some 4D multiverse BS. Well I do not want to sound like pretty much a broken record (*cough* like *cough* corporations *cough*) but hey show the apocalyptic event that brings forth the production / distribution issues so we can justify a price increase or stagnation.

Cannot wait to be in 2030 and look back and say.... damn 2022 was a good year *stars at global scale weather disasters*

 

I'm not sure what you want, thats a difficult read.
Make your point concisely and the same with what you would like to discuss, cheers

 

oh snap, i was just on ebay and seen a 4TB internal hard drive for 50 bucks. to bad the gpus aren't dropping. gpu cards i want are still kinda pricey.
but thanks for the info, going to grab me one or two soon.

 

I always have my data on 3 drives at all times

 

Hard disk prices have been stagnating or even increasing in the past 2-3 years.

Late 2019 I bought 8 TB drives for 120 euro (WD shuckable external)... guess how much they are now ? ... 140 Euro or more.
Winter 2020-2021 I bought two 14 TB drives for 219 euro each ... guess how much they are now ? 263 Euro.

Call me surprised Pikachu that sales have dropped...

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Edit: Let's not even talk about Chia, that subject makes me very sad.

 

Is understandable, HDDs is a very old and no longer suitable for even a Office computer. I can assess that in thousands of computers I manage daily, all of them are bought with SSDs, or upgraded do SSDs in the last 2 years. So in fact we have a very high availability of HDDs sitting on the shelves (hundreds of them). The market no longer want HDDs.

About the reliability os HDDs vs SSDs, I can attest that HDD failure was the most cause of RMAs processes, and between this 2 technologies, the failure of our SSDs as been minimal or almost zero, lower case numbers compared to HDDs in the same time interval.

On a personal level, my first SSD, Crucial M4 128GB was bought in 2011, used on 3 computers as main drive, and is still working fine now as a secondary drive, I did a lot of tests on it, and all of them return 100% life. And until now any SSD that I bought over the years never failed on me, from brands like Crucial, Samsumg, Adata...