Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact.

  (he said, storing everything at 720p like a peasant)

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Redundancy and high quality backups maybe? Some people have hoarded a lot of media over how many years, doesn’t seem too far fetched to me.

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    • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You had me at horded.

      You. Had. Me. At. Horded.

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      • onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it was my setup those three drives would just give you 16TB of space. Two drives in a mirror and the third as a hot spare.

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  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get 4k/8k quality everything if I can. Plus my fam can queue up downloads. I had 32TB but we’ve filled it up in 18 months. I now have a backup of the stuff I really like and a bit of room to grow. They keep downloading long running series one of them got project model or something, some food shows and a tattoo show.

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