Submitted 7 hours ago by akosgheri@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Yup, they are definitely already inflated, but I wouldn’t wait for them to come back down - i’m not sure they will.
if you need HDD, i never had a problem with seagate, though it’s been years since i bought one
it would not surprise me if a news breaks out soon that they’ve reached similar deals with the other major brands.
me neither. if you think you might need more storage over the next 2 years, now’s the time to get it
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.
Had an 18tb Seagate exos shit the bed on my jellyfin server a couple weeks ago. It had about 3 years usage at least
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
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.
Maybe I got a bad one, but it had a god awful loud noise. Works fine, but I switched back to WD after that
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.
Hitachi. Their hard drives were fucking shit.
HGST was created after Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive business. It was then later bought by Western Digital.
scytale@piefed.zip 2 hours 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.