HGST 8TB is keeping its high price for about a year already. Prior to that they had wonderful 4TB drives for ~$100 for home NAS, the price for 8TB version is li

HGST 8TB is keeping its high price for about a year already. Prior to that they had wonderful 4TB drives for ~$100 for home NAS, the price for 8TB version is like 6x higher and their 4TB drives are no more since WD acquired them (and Seagate's 8TB home drives have poor reliability, HGST being the only reliable HDD manufacturer atm). Seems like we are in a sort of a limbo when there aren't any reasonably priced SSDs >1TB and HDDs are stuck at 8-10TB for a while already. As for SSDs, most of the optimization goes to improving bandwidth (where most people won't notice a real-world difference between an SSD plugged into SATA2 and M.2 PCIe baring 8k/4k video creation), but anyone will notice a real-world difference in increased IOPS, which no company cares about and they plateaued at ~100k IOPS for the past few years (i.e. some of the low-end Sandisk SSDs with 4k IOPS are subjectively as slow as HDDs).