Yes, 100% the recertified market was already affected when manufacturers reduced capacity to bring prices up a year or two ago. Prices in the primary market go up due to shortages, more people seek the parts from the secondary market, secondary market prices go up with demand.

I bought 10tb refurbished drives for $65 ea last year, this year, same ones cost me $140 ea.

These are drives from 2017-2018 mind you. I know drives should start failing soon at some point, but that is why I have raid and weekly replication to a second server.

Let’s just hope something new comes around that will make current year drives cheaper in the near future.