I scored some new WD 14tb drives for $120 US last October, and I am glad I did! Was a hell of a deal.
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JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah but I cannot find any HDDs
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
monkeyFromTheLake@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I did not see the fist so am glad you added the text. Awesome rat!
tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When I first got my Synologies set up (~2024), I got 4x 12TB refurb DC drives for $75 each from goharddrive on eBay. Today, those same drives are $220 each. Absolutely ridiculous.
So now instead of expanding my space, I just cut back on my usage to make more room, bc it’ll be a long time before I can afford an upgrade.
RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t realize HDDs are taking a hit now… I’m moving overseas and opted to move my sever with me instead of rebuilding since ram alone is close to 1k now. I didn’t price HDDs at the time cause they are only 4 years old… Sure hope they hold on for another few years…
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You only need a tb or two
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell that to my are stack
Tournesol@feddit.fr 3 weeks ago
you get me…
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yes good for you but that’s not mandatory
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are not wrong that is not mandatory. However, my advice usually for people starting on self hosting that most often than not it is better to over spec a bit more always on HDD, and second the ram. But since prices for ram went to shit, over spec the HDD is still an option for some.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe. Depends on the use case.
ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I once thought the same. Started with 3TB usable storage. Now my NAS has 21TB usable storage and it has less than 3TB free space available. Alone my Jellyfin Media uses 7.7TB. Another big factor is my retro game collection. Once you realize what you can do, you use more and more storage.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Okay, to all of you: I get it, more is better, same for me.
But it’s still worth starting if you can only get your hands on two used drives to run in raid 1.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Exactly. I’ve got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way…)
What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective, so now I’m stuck with a half mirror I don’t know what to do with and it’s kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.
My media collection isn’t on a mirror or backed up or anything because it’s naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.
PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I am SO pissed off about this AI hardware grab, im about to revert to using fucking tape drives.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Its by design, I swear. They don’t have anywhere to run any of this gear, its all piling up somewhere.
Either that or it doesn’t exist and what we’re seeing is price gouging based on hypothetical demand based off of “letters of intent” that aren’t actually worth the paper they’re written on.
I think its the latter.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
It’s definitely the latter. These are writing contracts to buy hardware that has yet to be produced for data centres that haven’t been built. All so they can satisfy a demand that doesn’t yet exist for a product no one is going to be willing to pay for.
It will crash. This whole grift is too expensive to keep going. The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models. The chip makers are riding high now because the idiotic belief of the market is that this will keep growing as the data centres keep being built and the AI companies will keep buying new hardware.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I hope you’re right b/c right now feels like the classic “market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid” type situation.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yep, Western Digital said they were sold out of drives for all of 2026. Since 2026 is just starting, they haven’t actually produced those drives or gotten actual money for them.
Hopefully the bubble pops soon, though I hate that Americans’ 401Ks and IRAs will take the brunt of the “losses” when it does.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
The whole thing is speculation because its based off the back of letters of intent, no real contracts for anything. Its all still, currently, smoke and mirrors until something is inked and someone gets paid (or atleast, finance agreed)
So right now, we’re watching bullshit speculators sink the market. And/or restricted supply being used to milk us like cows.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This is exceedingly normal procedure for manufacturing companies, and not limited to tech industry by any means. They know how much they can potentially produce on their lines, if they have predicted customers to fulfill the capacity for a full year they are basically sold out despite not having produced most of it yet.
The company in work for also has “sold out” for several of our factories because we have orders for 110% production capacity on them. Orders are not paid up front, they never are in any industry, it’s always paid after delivery usually with a 30-90 days delay (and even more in some cases).
There is nothing spectacularly weird or out of place in the announcement they’ve made, it’s basically standard procedure.
Elting@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If people refuse to pay the prices and use their products then eventually they will run out of money and credit to do so.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s the components that make up these things that’s being bought to make data center hardware. They never make it to the consumer product factory.
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Uhhuh so they’re tooling up to make devices for a company that wont exist soon for datacenters that have no power.
All that shit is going in the landfill and they will be desperately repackaging HBM into consumer products. Bet.