Saw this while browsing Amazon. Says its new, but some of the comments talk about re-certified for smaller capacity drives.
CamelCamelCamel.
Everything is expensive since 2023..
Especially HDD and SSD storage. All the flash manufacturers had to cut down on production due to oversupply and low demand following COVID. Now thanks to AI and trade wars everything is in demand and expensive again. Especially when flash manufacturers are wanting to focus on the more expensive PCIe 5.0 SSDs.
What does your LNP pamphlet say?
I bought 4 from that deal but it was very clearly a once off so good luck to anyone waiting.
The average wage in Australia now is $101,000. So technically if you earn less than that, the Government classifies you as poor. Welcome to the new world. Those days of pre covid were a long time ago.
This is not the average wage, more like around the 80k.
The average is over $100k now. Median around $72.5k
edit: source https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-workin…
@kml22: Yep it's, uh, not great. Some of the numbers are pretty mind boggling. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide amongst the top ten most expensive cities for property in the world (as in least affordable compared to salary, not in absolute terms). Sydney I can see, there are some really nice areas there. But Melbourne and Adelaide, and I say this as a Melbournian, c'mon man.
have to stop using average, mining sector super inflates the average wage.. Median is the most accurate
Would probably want to pay extra for warranty
I recently bought 4 drives on sale from Amazon UK (16TB Toshiba) and the box arrived two days ago looking like it was delivered by Ace Ventura. Each individual drive was securely encased in a foam cradle. No external damage to drives, but haven't powered them up yet. I wouldn't order hdd from Amazon UK again without a 3-5 yr warranty and being ready to deal with dead drives more than normal.
I've been tracking 20TB drives for a while and this price is good considering HDD price trends over the last several months.
FYI. This listing is for a ST20000NTZ01 and is the non-retail FFP (Frustration-Free Packaging) version of ST20000NT001.
WILD that 20tb is now attainable in a single drive…
Seagate has Exos drives that are 36TB now. They're working on a 100TB drive to be released by 2030.
2030 is like 20 years away, we'll probably have flying cars by then
I guess you're living in a different era than the rest of us.
Isn't this price very expensive compared to this past sale? $328.89 in 2023.