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Kinda in the phase of buying disks for a $500-ish~ raid 5 NAS setup. The whole recent SMR debacle keeps me a bit careful on buying those disks before extensivel
by sphix0r 6y ago
Kinda in the phase of buying disks for a $500-ish~ raid 5 NAS setup. The whole recent SMR debacle keeps me a bit careful on buying those disks before extensively checking out all the specs.
Will news like this cause retail price drops anytime soon? Other advice is welcome too :-)
- dannyw 6y agoNo. The HDD market is a duopoly. You’ll find binned versions of these drives in 3 months sold at 40% off in EasyStores and Elements though. It’s how they get rid of parts that work fine but don’t pass the specs for these enterprise drives.