Due to the AI industry's seemingly bottomless appetite for all things memory, SSD prices have soared. You would be forgiven for thinking that relying on Hard Disk Drives instead would be more cost-effective while we all wait for SSD prices to become slightly more sensible again. However, as one Redditor found out, the grass is not always greener.
The Redditor explained their company had bought a number of high-capacity HDDs from Toshiba mere months ago for its storage array. However, when one of the 20+ TB drives died, Toshiba would only offer "a refund of the original purchase price [and] not a refund of the current (significantly higher) replacement price," nor a replacement drive either.
Tom's Hardware says the documents it examined reveal that part of this refusal was on the grounds that Toshiba did not have the stock to replace the enterp...
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