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Can anyone give some insights into what trends are driving this beyond a global drop in PC shipments? For instance, longer-lasting hardware, shift to cloud stor

Can anyone give some insights into what trends are driving this beyond a global drop in PC shipments? For instance, longer-lasting hardware, shift to cloud storage, decline in crypto mining (see reqs https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/features/requirements https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/features/requirements), other factors?

ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
0.5-1TB SSDs are cheap now. The only HDDs being bought are really big drives.
- TylerE 4y ago
  2TB drives are often cheaper (per TB) than 1TB drives these days.
  - rbanffy 4y ago
    That’s still true, but few people need more than 1TB, and those who really do, tend to need more than just 2.
loeg 4y ago
Cost cutting measures by hyperscalers in response to non-zero interest rates.
- ms512 4y ago
  Essentially this; drive manufacturers' financial reports are a good source of data here. For example, WD's Q2 financial report [1] shows: Q1 2023 Cloud Revenue: $1,829M Q2 2023 Cloud Revenue: $1,224M (down 33%) Q1 2023 Customer Revenue: $679M Q2 2023 Customer Revenue: $794M (up 17%) [1] https://investor.wdc.com/static-files/5c73f7fb-869a-4850-bd26-22a626d0176f https://investor.wdc.com/static-files/5c73f7fb-869a-4850-bd2...
wolongong942 4y ago
In my case i just buy used HDDs from the local PC repair shop for pennies, and use them for my long term storage and offsite backups. Shops usually swap people's HDDs out for SSDs to speed up their PC, so they have a ton of ~1tb ones to sell for cheap. I doubt people like myself are impacting the market for HDDs though.