Consumer hard drives are already getting more expensive in some cases. I bought a 8TB shingled magnetic recording[0] hard drive about two years ago, and recentl

Consumer hard drives are already getting more expensive in some cases. I bought a 8TB shingled magnetic recording[0] hard drive about two years ago, and recently tried to buy another one but I couldn't find any in stock. I bought a more expensive non-shingled drive instead. I assume nobody sells shingled drives to consumers anymore because people are too stupid to understand what it means and think the very slow random write performance is a defect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording