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Seagate Exos 32TB HAMR enterprise hard drive with laser recording technology visualization
Featured · PRODUCT NEWS

Seagate Ships 32TB HAMR Hard Drives — The Largest Enterprise HDDs Available

Seagate's Mozaic 3+ HAMR platform now ships in 32TB across enterprise, NAS, and surveillance variants. Same 3.5-inch chassis, three different firmware profiles, three target markets.

17 August 2026 · 10 min read
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NAS drive bays with a compatibility list overlaid
MARKET ANALYSIS

Synology's Drive List Has Zero Third-Party Hard Drives

Every hard drive on Synology's current compatibility list is a Synology drive. There are 100 third-party entries and all of them are enterprise 2.5-inch SSDs. On a 2025 Value or J-series machine, that combination decides which drives can build a storage pool at all.

19 August 2026 · 7 minRead →
Server memory modules with a rising price trend behind them
MARKET ANALYSIS

Why Is RAM So Expensive in 2026?

Consumer DDR5 kits went from about $200 to about $800 in three months. The cause is not scarcity in the ordinary sense - it is an allocation decision taken by three companies, and our own server memory index shows the same squeeze from the inside.

18 August 2026 · 8 minRead →
Storage price forecast check-in for August 2026
MARKET ANALYSIS

Storage Price Forecast - August 2026 Check-In

The first monthly check-in on our price forecasts. What moved in our own numbers over the last thirty days, whether each category outlook changed, and one measurement trap that flipped two of the three headline figures.

12 August 2026 · 7 minRead →
External desktop hard drive beside a bare internal drive, price per terabyte compared
MARKET ANALYSIS

External Drives Have Caught Up With Bare Drives Per Terabyte

For a decade an external cost more per terabyte than the bare drive inside it. Our live tracking shows that premium has closed to nothing on new listings and inverted on used ones. Here is what changed and what it means if you were planning to shuck.

17 August 2026 · 8 minRead →
Empty server rack drive bays with sold out tags — WD hard drive shortage 2026
BREAKING NEWS

Western Digital Is Sold Out of Hard Drives for All of 2026 — What to Buy Instead

WD's CEO confirmed the company is fully sold out at the hyperscale level for 2026. Here's what's still available and how to plan your storage purchases right now.

17 August 2026 · 9 minRead →
Hard drives on assembly line with US-China trade tariff impact visualization 2026
MARKET ANALYSIS

How US Tariffs Are Pushing Hard Drive and SSD Prices Higher in 2026

Tariffs on Thai, Malaysian, Korean and Chinese electronics are stacking on top of AI-driven shortages. The combined effect: 35-50% higher landed cost for enterprise storage.

17 August 2026 · 10 minRead →
HBM memory chip stack glowing electric blue — DRAM shortage driving server RAM prices in 2026
MARKET ANALYSIS

The 2026 Memory Chip Shortage: Why Server RAM Prices Have Doubled and When It Ends

HBM consumed 23% of global DRAM wafers in 2026, up from 8% in 2024. The result: DDR5 64GB RDIMM prices doubled and DDR4 prices climbed 60-80%. Here's when relief arrives.

17 August 2026 · 11 minRead →
Enterprise hard drives with sharp upward price trend chart — 50% price surge in 2026 storage market
PRICE ALERT

Hard Drive Prices Are Up 50% Since September 2025 — A Complete Guide to What's Happening

Three forces converged: AI demand, US tariffs, and a NAND shortage forcing buyers from SSD to HDD. The combined effect is a 46-50% price jump in six months. Here's the playbook.

17 August 2026 · 12 minRead →
Stack of enterprise hard drives with rising price arrow — used drive values climbing in the 2026 shortage
MARKET ANALYSIS

Your Old Hard Drives Are Now Worth More Than You Paid

The 2026 shortage did something hard drives never do: it made them appreciate. Enterprise and NAS drives now resell at or near original retail — and your upgrade is partially self-financing.

17 August 2026 · 8 minRead →
M.2 NVMe SSD modules of the type used for PlayStation 5 storage upgrades, with price tracking data
PRICE ALERT

PS5 SSD Prices Before GTA 6 - What Our Tracking Data Actually Shows

Everyone expects PS5 storage to get more expensive before GTA 6. Our tracker says it has not happened yet - and that is exactly why the upgrade window is open right now rather than in October.

17 August 2026 · 8 minRead →
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Best SATA: $16.40/TB (WD 20TB)Best SAS: $12.50/TB (HGST 4TB)Best NVMe: $76.30/TB (Micron 3.84TB)Drives tracked: 856Updated: 2026-09-15 14:30:40 UTC