HDD street +46% since 2025-09drift ~+5%/moNAND enterprise +80% Q1'26WD calendar-2026 sold outsnapshot 2026-08-24
The Market, Graphed
Every storage option from a four-agent research sweep. Systems lens: complete rigs, total price vs usable capacity — the staircase line is the Pareto frontier (nothing below-right of it exists; anything far above it is donating money). Drives lens: bare media, $/TB vs capacity. Hover anything.
Mission Planner
State the mission; the planner composes the tiered build from live famine prices. Hot tier sized to sustain the instrument, bulk sized to the working set, cold plan when the corpus outgrows spindles.
Rig Builder
Pick a chassis, click bays to load drives, pick redundancy. Gauges answer the only questions that matter: what it costs, what survives a dead drive, and how long it holds a hyperspectral instrument writing 2 TB/hour. Your build appears on the chart as ✦.
drive palette — select, then click bays (click a loaded bay to clear):
Live Snipe Board
Deals ranked against famine street. Dashed = unverified as of snapshot.
Never SMR for sustained capture. Never QLC for the ingest tier. exFAT is a data-loss genre. Recert drives: 10-day burn-in, failures cluster in the first 30 days. RAID is uptime, not backup.