I am very happy that I managed to get two 20TB discs before the crazy, now I'm just sad that I didn't get two more for the backup server.
I was going to get proxmox myself but decided to go the debian13 route instead. I heard proxmox is like pseudo open source and kernel diverges a bit from the Linux kernel. Anyway, whatever the case, I'm happy on debian
how i dream of buy a few 12 tb drives.
Rotational hard drive prices are up, but not that far, not like RAM, especially if you're not getting the largest drives possible.
That's maybe a doubling on 12TB drives from the trough. I mean, sure, it's significant, but if you were already talking about getting several, you can certainly get one.
It’s still pretty much 2x. I managed to get ram bought before it went silly but I’m really short on storage.
Same boat, the exact same refurb 10tb drives I've got in my system are 2.5x my last purchase. But I did get a lot of fast RAM before the prices went nuts.
What do you want to do with the HDD's? I have a bunch of crap saved on mine, but nowhere near 12TB. Also I rent some drive space (Hetzner Storage Box) for server backups. That adds up over time but you don't have to spend a big chunk all at once, and HDD prices might eventually drop again.
Feel lucky that you want HDD rather than SSD. SSD prices have tripled or quadrupled while HDD has not even doubled, per the graph someone posted.
Only thing I wish for Christmas is to be able to replace the RAM and mobo in one of my servers. It is failing with a kernel panic about once a week and it is an old DDR3 platform I planned to upgrade back in January. I have isolated the issue to a hardware fault but left without a solution...
How much do you need?
Try increasing timings on your RAM?
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