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

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• Australis13@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Argh. I was hoping to upgrade my server storage later this year...

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  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah… in November I was looking at the exos to get 4 or 5 on serverpartdeals, it was around 330, but I wanted to wait until January. Well last I checked they were 430 and I decided I could wait until next year ugh

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• dkc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a NAS with four 8TB Western Digital Red drives that are getting up there in age. I have been looking for a good deal to upgrade then with higher capacity drives for the last few years. Now I’m thinking when they fail I’ll probably have to buy lower capacity drives and be more picky with what data I keep around.

  Maybe I’ll look into burning Blu-rays and CDs. I’m definitely not going back to cloud storage.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh wow, 500$. So what?

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• ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why isn’t there a companies just for the consumer market?

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because if they can make for consumers, then there’s a shit ton of investor money waiting for some tech bro to turn it into ‘AI’.

    The tech industry companies are playing with nigh unlimited house money, consumers can’t compete.

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  • mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    b/c they all fail as everyone is going for ai marketed cr*p

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• PetteriPano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.

  Or buy cloud storage.

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  • Surp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t buy cloud storage that’s what they want you to do

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      this is the answer.

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  • RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I’m assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.

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    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Glad I bought a bunch of 20 TB ones some months back. I’m good for a few years.

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• stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Have they actually gone up that much? Oraybe just specific models? I just bought a 12TB NAS drive on Black Friday and the price difference was less than $20 compared to when I tried to do the exact same thing the year before.

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