It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-04-10 03:10:42.

After seeing the HDD price increase four times in less than a month, I reached out to one of the popular sellers of recertified enterprise drives, and I was told that the price increase mostly happened because of people panic buying. There are also scalpers and many of the distributors have placed a hold on the inventory.

They are hoping for the tariff negotiations to happen soon so the price will settle back down within a week or two. Panic buying is making things very difficult.

I'm going to wait and see how it settles, I bought 2 x 20 TB two weeks ago, and I should be fine for a month or two.