Or refuse to buy

  • Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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    9 hours ago

    More drives for my NAS - 16tb was about A$250 4 years ago. Same drives are now nearly A$1200.

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      9 hours ago

      In 2024, I bought 5 14 terabyte hard drives for about $600 for my NAS.

      Thank God I have gotten nowhere near close to filling those up yet.

      Just one additional drive is like 350 bucks now.

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        8 hours ago

        I’m limping along with one surviving 10tb, it’s twin mirror is dead. All non media data is backed up across smaller drives that still have pools/mirrors, but 5gb of media is living on the edge untill something changes.

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        8 hours ago

        I’m contemplating actually deleting shit. Or, if not that, storing offsite (deep storage) and then deleting, ready for that mythical time when drives become more affordable.