Seagate IronWolf Pro HDDs doubled in a year, from $550 to $1,100
HankYeomans · x · 2026-09-17
A user reports an absurd HDD price surge: the Seagate IronWolf Pro was $550–600 a bit over a year ago, hit $900 in January, and now costs $1,100 — with no stock available to buy more.
That's ordinary spinning disk, yet AI-driven storage demand has doubled its price in a year — a sign storage is becoming the next supply-chain bottleneck after GPUs, with enterprise storage costs rising fast.
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