Wow, hard disk prices are complete nonsense now. When I last upgraded my NAS' storage, I bought three 4 TB disks. That was just over 11 years ago. The exact same model is still for sale and costs about twice as much.
@david_chisnall
Yes, and for the same reason that SSD, RAM, and GPU prices have become nonsense.
@david_chisnall The bathtub curve might be your friend here. Buy used!
✅🎯🙄@david_chisnall fucking hate it rn. Fortunately i found a store with somewhat lower prices and got ssds and m2s from there
@david_chisnall
And now the drive is "new" instead of new.
@david_chisnall I'm so, so glad I finished my latest round of PC and storage purchases/upgrades last year. I have a bunch of 16TB disks in my NAS at home and all the old 8TB ones went to the colo for off-site backups.
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@david_chisnall yep, I have 2x4Tb drives in my "NAS" and one of them started giving out NAS errors.
One of the 4tb drives costed me 123€ in 2013. I've spent 223€ in the replacement.
HECK, a 2.5" external USB 4Tb drive in 2019 cost me 112€!
This is insane. I got lucky with RAM and bought a 32gb desktop *and* expanded my other desktop to 32gb before prices started going up, but my NAS situation is pretty dire...
@david_chisnall I have to say that there's always a convenient excuse to jack prices up. This has happened with many natural disasters- maybe some caused supply chain issues, but I'm... suspicious.
@dougmerritt @david_chisnall welcome to the end of Moore's Law (and that other one about storage whose name I forgot) at the exact moment when the entire industry has gone nuts over doing absolutely everything the most inefficient way possible...
When I bought these, 6TB was quite expensive and 8TB was massively expensive. Now, 32 TB has about the same price per TB as 4 TB (slightly lower).
The technology has kept improving.