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> we could replace it for less than $500 27 Terabytes of spinning rust with NAS hardware for $500? Not yet.
by okket 9y ago
> we could replace it for less than $500
27 Terabytes of spinning rust with NAS hardware for $500? Not yet.
- emmelaich 9y agoThe sweet spot for drives is the 4Tb at about $100[1]. Seven of those will give you 28 raw Tb with $300 left over for case and power supply. So not impossible. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/