WD 18TB and 20 TB

[LunarMist]

The DC580 is shipping, but $625 is too much for me.

 

[LunarMist]

So here we are a year after the first Seagate 24s and their 24TB EXOS are now about $480. The WD DC HC580 24TB are about $550. Are the prices expected to drop in 2025 or will it be very slowly?

 

[Mercutio]

Consumer demand for monster sized drives isn't very high, although Arstechnica and the like seem to think we might see 50TB drives by the end of the decade.

 

[LunarMist]

The goofball WD Elementals/My Books and Seagate One-touch/Expansion eternal drives are for the masses to have cheap local storage.
I agree they don't buy many internal drives now, but the EXOS and DC drives are made for the data centers. I assume the street prices of those are based on supply/demand for that sector and there is some seepage into the consumer market from larger system builders that buy in bulk and resell.