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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (www.tomshardware.com)
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https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

28 TB $449.99 Price per TB: $16.07

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[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

this is the answer.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just upvote.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

this is not the answer.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is this a question?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is it a question?

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is what a question?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's the question!

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Wait, what? That's it? So, is it that neither this nor that is the answer, but that it is the question, unless that is what it is, or what is it?

Well, it is what it is, but, I mean, that is surely not what this is all about, is it really?

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm loving the block feature on Lemmy. If you realize someone's just doing low effort spam, you don't have to read their comments any more!

I hated that part of Reddit.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

IKR! last I checked I had over 300 users on my block list.

super helpful for ignoring trolls.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

O, that is a real cool feature. So you just lose space then as they fail, not redundancy.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It sure is!

In my case it's vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.