Or refuse to buy

  • bizarroland@lemmy.world
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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.

    • Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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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.