{"id":178952,"date":"2026-01-16T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/artificial-intelligence-continues-to-reap-hard-drive-costs-rise-by-an-average-of-46\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:30:13","slug":"artificial-intelligence-continues-to-reap-hard-drive-costs-rise-by-an-average-of-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/artificial-intelligence-continues-to-reap-hard-drive-costs-rise-by-an-average-of-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Continues to Reap: Hard Drive Costs Rise by an Average of 46%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ixbt.games\/en\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/iskusstvennyi-intellekt-prodolzaet-zatvu-stoimost-zestkix-diskov-vyrosla-v-srednem-na-46-smi.html\">Artificial Intelligence Continues to Reap: Hard Drive Costs Rise by an Average of 46%<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ixbt.games\/en\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/iskusstvennyi-intellekt-prodolzaet-zatvu-stoimost-zestkix-diskov-vyrosla-v-srednem-na-46-smi.html\">https:\/\/ixbt.games\/en\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/iskusstvennyi-intellekt-prodolzaet-zatvu-stoimost-zestkix-diskov-vyrosla-v-srednem-na-46-smi.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-16 08:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ixbt.games\">ixbt.games<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard drive prices have increased by an average of 46% since September 2025, according to ComputerBase\u2019s analysis of the most popular models.<\/li>\n<li>Seagate and Toshiba hard drives, including the Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB, have seen price surges of over 60%.<\/li>\n<li>The price increase affects both mass-market solutions and flagship models across the entire segment.<\/li>\n<li>Prices have also risen in the American market with Seagate&#8217;s IronWolf models experiencing significant hikes.<\/li>\n<li>A systemic shortage affects key manufacturers, including Western Digital, indicating a broadly based market issue.<\/li>\n<li>In Russia, the price of Seagate and Western Digital drives has risen dramatically.<\/li>\n<li>The surge in hard drive prices is attributed to the high demand driven by the boom in artificial intelligence and the reallocation of storage capacity to serve AI needs.<\/li>\n<li>The overall trend indicates that prices will likely continue to rise due to the demand for greater computing power and storage solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence Continues to Reap: Hard Drive Costs Rise by an Average of 46% https:\/\/ixbt.games\/en\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/iskusstvennyi-intellekt-prodolzaet-zatvu-stoimost-zestkix-diskov-vyrosla-v-srednem-na-46-smi.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.ixbt.site\/1600x900\/smart\/ixbt-data\/1113312\/01KF3ETCK20QPMNCJDS181HT90.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-178952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178954,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178952\/revisions\/178954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}