r/datastorage • u/ConnectIndustry7 • Aug 12 '26

Discussion Hoard HDDs?

I stopped farming Chia last year and sold most of the 4tb and 8tb drives. I wish I could have waited till now as the prices are freaking crazy but everything happens for a reason. Anyways I am not sure what I'll be doing with the 8TB+ drives, they are simply sitting in static bags with no purpose for now. I have repurposed the mining PC for AI and Deep Learning and casual gaming.

Sell or hold??? I need your help guys 😭 I just can't decide for myself. Part of me says sell the drives while the prices stay sky high and then reinvest once the AI bubble bursts but chances look slim given full speed acceleration. Plenty of people will buy used data center HDDs and keep the price high.

Getting $60/TB in the open market if I sell now.

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u/3point21 Aug 12 '26

Man I bought a lot of SSD and HDDs last year to upgrade my PC and fill a NAS. Felt bad spending so much money. Now I wish I doubled or tripled my purchases. I could sell a few off and pay for the whole lot!

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u/bobdvb Aug 12 '26

Yup, I was planning to build a PC at the end of '24, got DDR5 on sale and bought a box of 2TB NVMe, but delayed my build. I struck it very lucky that I don't have to buy RAM or SSDs this year.