• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    10 months ago

    So 10€ for a Terrabyte? How? You can’t compare mass-discounted stuff, like cloud, which additionally uses your data for tracking etc., to generate more money, with the consumer focused, single-item storage common a few years ago.

    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yeah apparently I just got ripped tf off with the ssd I just bought.

      Storage IS cheap these days, but 1c/GB is not true.

      • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        pretty close, though. $99.99 for new 8tb seagate hdd is the lowest/gb i’ve seen in the last couple years from a major retailer.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                10 months ago

                Haven’t heard of the brand (MDD), but here’s the Amazon listing. It claims to have a 5-year warranty, so there’s that, but people on Reddit claim they’re basically refurbished HDDs w/ wiped SMART data, so YMMV.

                I wouldn’t gamble on it and would instead get a brand I trust (either WD or Seagate), but it exists.

                • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                  10 months ago

                  Cool. My older RAID controller maxes out at 16TB per drive so that wouldn’t work for me either way but I did gamble on some rebranded SAS drives from Amazon once and haven’t regretted it. Water Panther was the name, recertified WD Enterprise drives I believe. That was over five years ago and they’re all still running strong. The shucked Seagates that I bought brand new all self destructed in a matter of months but, to be fair, they were garbage SMR drives that were never meant to leave the safety of their USB enclosures. They do still work but the write throughput is now somewhere between DSL and dialup…