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Those are some interesting statistics for dollars per terabyte... I have two points to reply on. #1 I'm seeing prices much higher than $19/TB today.Most manufacturers are selling drives at much higher prices for even basic HDDs, let alone NAS or Enterprise grade. To wit : Amazon has a WD Blue 4TB for $141, the 6TB is $180, and the 8TB is $230. That puts current prices closer to $30-$35 /TB for basic consumer desktop drives. For anyone with serious thoughts of creating a NAS or running RAID or ZFS and looking to step up to WD Red plus / Seagagte Ironwolf you're looking at $200 for a 4TB drive, $420 for a 12TB drive, and $600 for a 16TB drive. That's $35-$50 /TB for infrastructure grade capacity. That isn't in line with 2021 prices, when prices for disk memory were ~$16/TB, but closer to 2014 when they were $38/TB.Source : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage?time=2007..latest #2 Moore's Law has held for years that as technology increases, cost remains fixed, which can translate into cheaper goods over time for the same capabilities. But we're not seeing a gentle correction, or a plateau of prices, we're seeing a sea-change in the market as it re-prices what has been a 50+ year trend from cheaper and cheaper to much more expensive. Hand waving it away by pointing at historical charts when technology was more expensive does not negate the fact that everyone is feeling the tide going out underfoot. Statements like "try to get a grip on reality" and "people data hoarded during all those years" seems to be really tone deaf and ignorant.