I only wish I had money to get in before prices bump up. 😭
Being poor sucks.
Preparing for the hardware market disruption
Submitted 5 days ago by lightrush@lemmy.ca to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
lightrush@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Being poor sucks.
No kidding. This didn’t ruin me but it was painful. And on top of that, it’s smaller disks for significantly more than I did last year.
I bought them for years ahead. My primary pool is gonna start having drives fail from age and use, and it’ll need replacements. So I’m gonna be sticking these in as they fail over time.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
That’s the way to do it, smart planning. I’m glad you were able to make it happen even if it set you back more than you had hoped.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes, 100% the recertified market was already affected when manufacturers reduced capacity to bring prices up a year or two ago. Prices in the primary market go up due to shortages, more people seek the parts from the secondary market, secondary market prices go up with demand.
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I bought 10tb refurbished drives for $65 ea last year, this year, same ones cost me $140 ea this year.
These are drives from 2017-2018 mind you. I know drives should start failing soon at some point, but that is why I have raid and weekly replication to a second server.
Let’s just hope something new comes around that will make current year drives cheaper in the near future.
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
How many TB?
lightrush@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
9x 14TB, WD HC530. Paid 25% less for some 16TB HC550 in 2024.
sj_zero 5 days ago
Glad I upgraded before it was too late.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Just keep in mind that the long run trend is pretty strongly downwards; that’s a log-scale graph.
kossa@feddit.org 5 days ago
Yeah, but storage requirements go up, so it stays the same (at best). It feels more expensive though.