Storage hardware is getting more expensive every quarter. Sizing capacity now is a decision you control.
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Hi there,
The hardest part of a storage plan right now isn't only the regulation — it's that the market has turned against waiting.
The AI build-out is consuming memory and drives faster than suppliers can make them. The numbers are stark: enterprise SSD contract prices rose 40%+ quarter-on-quarter in early 2026, DRAM contract prices climbed 55–60%, and high-capacity enterprise HDDs are up roughly 46–50% since September 2025. Western Digital has described its drive output as effectively sold out for 2026, with long-term agreements already signed into 2027–2028.
For an IT team, that means the cost of "we'll deal with storage later" is going up on a clock you don't control. Every quarter of delay is the same capacity at a higher price — or a forced, rushed refresh when a proprietary array hits end-of-life at exactly the wrong moment in the market.
This is where the platform decision changes the economics:
- One platform, one interface. From tens of TBs to past 30 PB, TrueNAS uses the same intuitive UI to manage your storage. Run anything from high-speed production workloads to routine backups, without complicated or time-consuming retraining.
- Mix and match media types. With support for both all-flash and hybrid storage, you can scale capacity and performance independently, buying the media that makes sense for your needs — not what the vendor locks you into.
- End-to-end ZFS checksums and self-healing protect every terabyte you do buy, so growing the footprint never means growing your corruption risk.
The teams that size and lock in capacity now control their economics. The ones that wait hand that control to the market.
See the 2026 storage economics report →
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