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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (www.tomshardware.com)
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https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

28 TB $449.99 Price per TB: $16.07

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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Made me buy a used 10tb drive recently.

Screw them all, I will have a place for my data and I won't pay them a dollar for these shenanigans.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I will use a book shelf sized rack of RAID hubs filled with 1 GB flash drives before I buy a single fucking KB of cloud space.

    I will install an ancient version of Linux on my mackie D8B soundboard and use that as my PC before I ever buy a goddamn cloud computer.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I would love to do that, but am scared of my house getting flooded/catching fire/getting tornado-ed/multitude of other things. Also, the electricity sometimes doesn’t work, especially now in winter and I need 100% uptime for remote data access

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Backups and High Availability come to mind.

    If there's any other place you'd be allowed to install a second node on, ideally served by another ISP (since we talk about remote access), you can do that. This can be your friends, or family, or someone else you trust.

    Just have 2 NAS devices with equal drives in each and let them work in a high availability cluster. This way, you'll have near 100% uptime and a backup in case something goes wrong.

    Sure, that is more expensive, but it gives some peace of mind while keeping control of your data. Additionally, with this configuration you don't necessarily have to build a RAID array if money is a problem, so some costs can be shaved off (Though it never hurts to still have it if you can afford it)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I’ve got 30tb or so made up of 4 and 10tb used drives. All I’ll buy anymore. In fact, I need to change out of of my parity drives. Hopefully used market is still somewhat affordable.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I have four 8TB drives from last year and 4 externals from my old build that were healthy when they came off the last system.

    I might be a little ragged in 10 years but I'll still have a disk spinning if they aren't arresting wireguard users for terrorism by then.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    In my country I got used 10tb for $150. Don't know situation in your place.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I used to pay like $69 for them in the US. Looks like they add a hundred bucks or so to the price…

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