>2TB HDDs now cost 130€ + shippingvery cool
just wait indefinitely bro
>Sneedgatenah I'll pass
>>108896332I have to wonder how well tech surplus shops are doing right now. There was one place I remember they had a wiping station that corps would use to generate certificates. They were wiping hundreds of 1,2,3,4 TB drives, perfectly serviceable. Still remember them all stacked neatly like silver bullion.
>>108896332>boughted 80tb hdds and 24tb ssds in q1 2025>switched to am5 and boughted 128gb ddr5 6400 cl32 in august 2025I’m not seeing the problem
I paid 115 euro for a 2TB SSHD from a chain store known for their rip off prices in Jan 2015.
>>108896332holy fuck and I just wanted to get a new oneguess I'll just keep buying 1tb shitwarecheapest one is WD10EURXhttps://www.techpowerup.com/forums/attachments/hdd-list-cmr-smr-pdf.364987/>5400rpm green but CMRgood enough for manga and anime I guess?
>>108897179>WDBLUE - WD10EARZ >5400rpmwait, since when are blues 5400rpmthese fucks are rebranding old/different shit ain't they
>>1088968701-2TB drives are pretty low value. I'm honestly surprised people in this thread are even bothering buying them NEW.
>>108897236/g/oycattle is retarded and knows nothing about tech, what else is new
>>108896332I remember paying 100€ for a WD green in 2010
if anything breaks in my pc, I'm going tyrone mode from now on
>>108897236>most people aren't data hoarders or like to keep actually robust backups for the little amount of data they have>1-2 tb hdds cost much less than higher capacitiessimple as, retards that go "BUT A 32 TB HDD HAS A MUCH LOWER COST PER GB HURR DURR" and will proceed to spend 300+$ on an hard drive they don't need and which will fail and need replacement in the next 5 years anyway based on this fact alone aren't really as bright as they think they are.
>>108896332fuck this timeline
>>1088963322 TB HDD is not worth the hassle.Get 20 or 22 TB.
my 2tb seagay failed after 5 yearsI thought hdds are a long term storage
>>108897205Blue is the dumping ground of all random models they have a surplus of. Has been for a decade now.
>>108898287I have 4 x 2TB HHDs with SnapRaid. 6TB is plenty for a reasonable media server. I would love to have gotten much bigger drives, but I am not giving jews the money they are demanding.
>>108898553> get 20 TBWhere do you back that up onto?
>>108898287I bought like 10 3TB HDDs from eBay used for like $250 in 2021.Zero failures, zero bad sectors on any of them another 40k hours later Buying new low capacity HDDs is so dumb. Even now I can buy a 3TB sas drive for like $30 and stash backups in several different places for the price of a new drive.
>>108896870>Still remember them all stacked neatly like silver bullion.I'm putting together a team
>>108896899Anonymous wants to know your location.>>108897172Truly a return to monke route we're on.
>>108897205Once upon a time, consumers lost confidence in Greens, so WD rebranded them as Blues (5400 rpm).
>>108896374An indefinite n-number of two more weeks, I presume? >>108897936Das rite.
>>108896332I got mine. Fuck (You).
>>108896332They used to cost 450 BEFORE the price gouging started, back in 2015. They still were priced at 450 in 2024.I don't even want to know what they are "worth" now.
Never complain about prices again. This is what I have to deal with.
>>108896899>boughtedYou again.
>>108896332Amazon is selling that drive here for the USD equivalent of €75.19.
>>108898989You've got a good set up. Unless you're planning on hoarding media, you should be good for a good while.
>>108899402Actually, ours is a Barracuda. 7200rpm, though, so that's nice.
>>108899007on another 20 TB drive, duh
>>108899007On another 20TB drive... When I had just one 20TB I placed the really important stuff on my 4tb/2tb HDDs and backed them with the 20TB, then I bought another 20TB when I got more money.
>>108899825>no offsite backupyup, everytime a retard brags abut having a bijilin terabytes of drives it's always like this.enjoy your data loss when your house burns down or both your drives decide to ack or get corrupted at the same time (not very unlikely, i bet you have both drives on the same nas or some retardation like that)
>>108899007>Where do you back that upfor a media server? i can just torrent everything again when a drive fails
>>108899445Ive had worse luck with western digital, ssds are also a crap shoot
>>108896332I'm so glad I bought a couple of 6TB HDDs before this shit hit the fanyou can thank trump & his AI tech bros financiers for this, btw.>>108899999nice repeating digitscheck'd
>>108899361uh oh melty
>>108900219Resilvering is gonna be a sweaty couple of hours
>>108896870I think surveillance still uses hard disks and servers. ssd is inflated marketing word because it makes normie laptops thin.
>>108896332WD Gold is currently cheaper better and faster.
>>108896870I know a guy that manages three brick and mortar service shops / refurbishers / made to order rig builders and they are making bank.
>>108898553What do you do with this much storage? Host roms websites for people to download?
>>108899941> Oy vey sent your data to cloud> Your house will totally burnThat won't happen, I don't live in poverty like you. Glowie kike.
>>108897936not a single store in my city even stocks multi TB hard drives anymore i need to online order it i can't even do that
>>108901260you can encrypt it in your end you know
>>108901189ye i already got burnt on ebay drives
I may just buy a dozen old used 320 GB shit drives from hardware repair stores at this point.As long as the SMART data is alright, i can just dump stuff on them and throw them into the basement.And they are the only ones old enough to be actual scraps. There are still people buying new 500 GB HDDs today, for whatever reason.
>>1088963322tb hard drives used to cost $80 in 2011, just before the thailand floods.
>>108896332Yeah.Jews don't want you to own anything, so they increase the costs of anything physical. To stop you from noticing, they try to brainwash you that it's because of some flood that happened in Thailand ages ago or something about Iran, which only happened because Jews can't stop attacking Iran.It's only going to get worse. Jews expect you to stream everything. Now take a guess who owns the stream services.
>>108896402Ironwolf is alright. Stay away from Barracudas though.
>>108901437What's your suggestion?>backup selectively chosen data in a zip file and encrypt it to upload>upload a whole LUKS partition>create a squashfs, encrypt it and upload it>encrypt every single file individually before uploadAll of those options SUCK.I rsync onto an encrypted partition on various HDDs i have lying around.So i can always mount it and browse through it. And a full system backup takes 10min at most, when it's slow.When i don't use a system anymore, like when i throw away a laptop, i mksquashfs the backup, which makes it tiny and read-only, and keep it. I can still mount the squashfs.For Windows systems i use ntfsclone. Which also creates mountable images.If i want to access an individual file from a 15 year old Windows XP backup, i can do that. And it takes a few seconds to mount it. It is extremely convenient.If i cant get a single file out of a backup without extracting or restoring the whole thing, it SUCKS.
>>108896332Why are these small capacity drives so expensive anyway? The factories to make them have existed for decades now
>>108901260>i don't live in poverty so a natural disaster will never hit my home and nothing bad will ever happen to my driveskekw>>108902183>having an additional offsite backups means I don't have quick local access to my stuff anymore????????????
>>108902183you can use rclone to mount most cloud storage providers
>>108902357Because companies stopped producing them and decided to abandon ordinary consumers in favor of datacenters. Why would they if datacenters require huge +20tb drives, for them it would be viable to produce 1000 20tb drives than 10000 2tb drives. There won't be any small capacity hdds anymore, only expensive encrypted helium filled drives with specific firmware incompactible with regular hardware and software.
>>108902956Looks promising, thank you!https://rclone.org/crypt/
>>108903052yeah rclone is great ive been using it for years
>>108896332>Seacrate.
I paid $180 after tax last year and would've gotten like 3 more if I knew what was going to happen.
>>108899941If your house burns down you probably have other priorities than regaining access to your loli hentai
>>108903619>the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about "important data" is loli hentai...that's depressingprobably bait but if you seriously fail to understand the concept that you can buy a new house but you cannot buy back your family photos i don't know what to tell youif my house were to burn down losing data would be worse than losing my house, yes.also didn't you previously call me a poorfag? if you can't just afford a new house that sounds kinda poor too me... also you're too poor for some sort of insurance?
>>108896332I paid like 80€ for a 2TB 2.5 inch external usb3 drive.back in 2019
>>108896332Stop being poor and give the corporations more money.
>>108898668If a hard drive survives the first few months of operation, it typically has a 1% chance of failure each year until it reaches 5 years old. At which point its failure rate rises to 5% per year.
>>108896332Dude haven't you heard about the floods somewhere in asia? That's why HDDs have been costing like 3 times as much since 15 years!
>>108904012>I paid like 80€ for a 2TB 2.5 inch external usb3 drive.wtf. I bought 4TB external drives for $60 (after taxes) in 2019.
Every component of Personal computing will die. manufacturers will close down and consolidate and inflate prices. you are a fool if you don't buy back ups right now. Even thermal paste is not safe.
>>108906114This. I hope you guys didn't throw away your old HDDs. Every little gigabyte helps.
>>108906145i went to get spares since it was obvious these retards will up the prices on them as well.
>>108899053Oh, are you just buying them second hand for backup purposes? That's pretty clever.>no disc scratching from a broken motor if the motor only switched on once when you got it
>>108901437I own what I have, not putting my files In other's property when I can pay for HDDs.
>>108902648Natural disasters doesn't really happen on my city at all, the maximum we have are some strong storms, which only affects the poor, so cope. Been keeping my data for 30 almost 40 years man, like, kekw.
>>108896332Nah that's not right. I bought a 2TB SSD for $130 and an 8TB HDD for the same price back in 2024. Shit should be cheaper now. You're being finessed.
>>108898287Buying new and high capacity or used and low capacity seem to be the sweet spot now.Except if you need something like a 2.5" HDD as second internal drive for a laptop, then you dont have any other choice than some overly expensive 1 or 2TB drive, that you would have gotten cheaper 15 years ago.Competing for high capacity used datacenter drives gets you fucked nowadays. There isn't that much margin to a new one now, so if you consider the usage in time till death, you may end up worse.If you buy high capacity, you would want something that lasts for a decade for it to be worth it.Meanwhile if you want to bruteforce storage for the actual cheapest $/GB, mass buy used and one category lower than what people want. You could have a high rate of failure and still be cheaper overall.But your usecase needs to match. If you need some drives to rsync backups on them, thats fine.
>>108901228paul mccartney's entire catalog.
>>108901228I have my personal AnonFlixMovies 12 TBTV-Series 185 TBLuckily, i have bought plenty of Toshiba MG10's with 20 TB each to still be ale to expand the collection.With the prices they're asking now, i would not buy a single HDD.If shit continues, they will push us into personal cloud computing. Your computer won't be more than a thin client that starts up a browser frame.Then, even YOUR PERSONAL DATA becomes a subscription model. And people thought Adobe was a ripoff. lolYou will own nothing and you will be happy.
>>108908317do whatever you wanti don't care i just said that it's not the right reason not to do it
>>108908329>where i live, fire doesn't existsure
I bought N300 Pro 12 terabytes by two for $268 last month. The same drive is now going for $429.99 at Walmart. $351.64 for the 6TB on Amazon. $432 for the SAME 12TB drive on Newegg and $379.99 for the 8TB at Micro Center. The lowest price for any new 12TB hard drive of any brand is $365. That's the skinny.
Should I get WD Passport bros
>>108910379In less than a month, these drives are not only practically unavailable, but, HDDs of its caliber are $100, thereabouts. Around 25% more
>>108910389sure, why not?
>>108910399>>108910379and they're still unopened and I'm willing to sell them at a 10% increase
>>108909898Good luck putting fire on my house lmao, kekw
Basically a return to 2009 pricing. Might as well reinstall Windows 7 too.
>>108896332Amazon.de has 22TB externals for 450. They had a return for like 416 but it sold.
>>108909193Of course you care.
>>108910634I hope you have a blue rooftop.
>>108897205Yep, found that out myself when buying a couple 1TBs for cheap a few years back. Seems most of their color designators are fucked and no longer hold any real meaning anymore. At least Gold still means "datacenter drive".
