Amid soaring SSD prices, slower-but-cheaper mechanical hard drives may have offered an attractive reprieve for anyone wanting to embiggen their PC storage on a â and I know itâs increasingly difficult to use this word without breaking down into desperate laugh-crying â budget. Unfortunately, that probably ainât happening either, as leading HDD manufacturers Western Digital and Seagate have both revealed that theyâve already sold âpretty muchâ all of their mechanical drive stock that was allocated for 2026.
