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Western Digital says it’s sold out of HDD capacity due to surging AI and enterprise demand, pushing HDD prices to multi-year highs. With cloud revenue around 89% and consumer sales only about 5%, WD will focus on HDDs for exabyte-scale data centers and has secured long-term orders through 2027–2028 with major customers.
Newegg is offering a Black Friday deal on the Seagate Exos X20 20TB HDD, providing a massive 60% discount of $430 off the usual price. Despite being a traditional HDD, the Seagate Exos X20 offers enhanced performance with low latency and a 256MB cache for quick data loading. Designed for large data transfers and low latency, this datacenter-quality storage solution is now available at a price point that many average computer users can afford, priced at $269.99.
Backblaze has published its quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics, revealing that the annualized failure rates (AFR) have remained relatively stable. As the HDD population grows, the average AFR is 1.54 percent. The latest report shows a recovery in drive reliability after a 10TB failure rate peak, with the newest 16TB drives being the most reliable in Backblaze's HDD buying history. Seagate has the lowest reliability rating, and the average age of failed drives is two years and six months. Backblaze's HDD test data page is available for public use, but users must cite Backblaze as the source and cannot sell the data.