if you need HDD, i never had a problem with seagate, though it’s been years since i bought one
Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place
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U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
sanzky@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
it would not surprise me if a news breaks out soon that they’ve reached similar deals with the other major brands.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
me neither. if you think you might need more storage over the next 2 years, now’s the time to get it
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
Milksteaks@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Had an 18tb Seagate exos shit the bed on my jellyfin server a couple weeks ago. It had about 3 years usage at least
Lojcs@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Are they original / how did you buy them / how much did they cost? I tried buying Seagate 3 times the last 4 years and every time it was shoddily repackaged with fake stickers and such
ryan213@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’ve had the opposite experience. I bought two Seagate drives 15-20 years ago and both failed. Lol I’ve been buying WD ever since and I’m still using them today. Please don’t jinx me.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Maybe I got a bad one, but it had a god awful loud noise. Works fine, but I switched back to WD after that
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I had. And with Maxtor, and Samsung, Fujitsu, Quantum, IBM, and that company I forgot the name but it is started with H.
WD was nice. Not without problems, but nothing Fujitsu MPG tier.
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Hitachi. Their hard drives were fucking shit.
Matt@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
HGST was created after Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive business. It was then later bought by Western Digital.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It took a lot in me not to brag about my luck with buying used HHDs for home use.
Not to be ‘that guy’, but with how things are trending I feel like now is the time to make your homelab if you want one and haven’t taken the dive already.
Seems like there’s a growing chorus of tech CEOs affirming plans to transition consumers to cloud-based personal computing - component prices probably wont be bouncing back anytime soon.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Least year I paid $485 cdn for 22 tb wd red pro drives. Right now the same drives are $749 cdn.
It’s already too late
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yea, I mean it’s definitely already pretty bad, but I just don’t think it’s coming back down - at least not soon.
If you can afford it still, I wouldn’t wait.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they’d last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I went to buy used drives for an offsite backup and the prices were double what I paid a year ago, so no, now is not the time, unfortunately.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yup, they are definitely already inflated, but I wouldn’t wait for them to come back down - i’m not sure they will.
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Wild how memory and storage have only ever been going down in price ever since they were invented, and now they’re gonna up exponentially.