16TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive $254.99 @ Best Buy

[funkywizard]

It's more than double that.

wow ok. I checked maybe a week or two ago. At that time it had grown from 400pb to 600pb in the span of maybe a week. Now it's above 1200pb? wow.

 

[Rand__]

Its actually at almost 1.5 EiB already -> Chia cryptocurrency blockchain explorer

 

[evilpaul]

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I just built my NAS a few months ago, so I've got a few TB of plots and a spare drive in case one of mine dies. Hoping to get some Chia and free Internet money. Not pleased that it ruined the MLC enterprise drive market.

 

[newabc]

From forbs.com, link, table-4, the Q1 of 2020 the 3 major HDD vendors shipped 278EB. So estimating around 1 ZB last year was correct. Large companies won't be worry about the 1.6EB volume on Chia now. Of course the consumers can be worry. But some in China with some relationships with the retail channels already felt the roller coaster of HDD prices.

Update: "Total SSD capacity was around 207.39 exabytes compared to 1,018.32 exabytes for hard drives." from techspot.com

SSD shipments outpaced HDDs in 2020, but capacity still favors mechanical drives

According to data storage research and consulting firm TrendFocus (per Storage Newsletter), manufacturers shipped 333.12 million solid-state drives in 2020 - an increase of 20.8 percent year-over-year....

www.techspot.com

 

[Rand__]

Same horn (only retail affected, not market):
https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/n2lren