I just looked at some low-end NAS-oriented HDDs. The cost $/TB is 2x similar ones I bought 5 years ago.

That has never before happened in the history of computing, and it violates long-held, fundamental assumptions.

It happened in 2011 when massive flooding in Thailand stopped a huge chunk of global production. Hard drive prices pretty much doubled overnight.

	▲	marshray 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, storage prices were still much lower 5 years later.