Ram and HDD prices: 📈
Me: 😭
You NEED To Selfhost
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QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I had purchased first 12TB drive for 4 bay NAS last summer. These are fuckton expensive so couldnt get all 4. I finally saved up and bought 2nd 12TB drive to get to RAID 1 for redundancy. Not even month passed, WD reports no more drives. Shop where I got one reports out of stock. FUCK!
Fuck AI and fuck big tech. I got my 12tb cloud and will give you 0 money in near future.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Realistically it’s worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.
heatermcteets@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. I have a RAIDz2 on super old version of FreeNAS. 8x4TB.
I’ve been needing to upgrade for about a year now. I’ve been waiting for the prices to go lower…. News about WD forced my hand for 8x18TB. Not $$ I was looking to spend, but fomo my upgrade could now be much further way pushed me to just do it.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had two 20TB drives in my cart three months ago for $350 each. Today they’re $420
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
You can still go with unraid and buy more, smaller drives. Buy used SAS drives and an HBA. I recently bought a refurbished Dell optiplex with 32 gigs of ram and some i5 processor off eBay for 100€. SAS drives are really loud and consume more energy than consumer HDDs, but they last very long and are way cheaper.
Bidah@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I have 1 tb usb
Bidah@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Buy from third world then
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mhm, waiting for ai bubble to burst so I can upgrade my current rig to something future proof
wanderinglurk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t this topic be more appropriate in other communities? Preaching to the choir here.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
You can cross post it?
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 weeks ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
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libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Could you also have a row for english?
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
- NAS: A weird spinny thing where you store your data. Both over the network.
- RAID: Multiple weird spinny things working together to recover the lost data if one of the weird spinny things dies.
- SSD: A weird spinny thing that doesn’t spin. Currently prohibitively expensive, so can be ignored.
- SMB: A language that computers use to share files from the weird spinny things or printers with each other.
- ZFS: A method that your computer uses to keep track of how and where your files are on the weird spinny things.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.
three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thanks doc
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Needshoul*Cargon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’ve got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Pray they don’t break in the next 4 years.
I’ll join you
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah but I cannot find any HDDs
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.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I scored some new WD 14tb drives for $120 US last October, and I am glad I did! Was a hell of a deal.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Wow thats awesome I’m so happy for you.
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tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world 2 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
serverpartdeals.com
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
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.
PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol