According to VDURA's own index, purchasing a 30TB enterprise HDD currently requires an investment of $1,216. When you look back twelve months to Q3 2025, the expense for that same hardware sat at just $495, meaning we have witnessed a rather substantial 146% price surge.
Despite this recent spike in hardware costs, traditional hard drives continue to be a highly economical choice for large-scale data needs. In fact, they remain exactly 18.6 times cheaper than buying the equivalent TLC SSD capacity.
Thankfully, the infrastructure for Filecoin storage was already successfully deployed well ahead of the steep pricing increases that took place this year.
Despite this recent spike in hardware costs, traditional hard drives continue to be a highly economical choice for large-scale data needs. In fact, they remain exactly 18.6 times cheaper than buying the equivalent TLC SSD capacity.
Thankfully, the infrastructure for Filecoin storage was already successfully deployed well ahead of the steep pricing increases that took place this year.
