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Here’s some bad news for those looking at buying a new hard drive – prices are about to rise, by the looks of things. And that holds true even for consumer hard drives, even though this news ...

The situation also has resulted in lower-than-expected hard-drive prices for solution providers as vendors react to price-forwarding moves affecting their competitors, one distribution executive said.

Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%.