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Excellent news. The pattern of the last five to eight years of the prices being effectively the same when I go to buy a new hard drive is incredibly depressing
by Causality1 6y ago
Excellent news. The pattern of the last five to eight years of the prices being effectively the same when I go to buy a new hard drive is incredibly depressing compared to the yearly halving of my youth.
- SECProto 6y agoI just bought a 14TB drive for 250 canadian - equivalent to $0.0141 USD per gb. According to a backblaze blog from 3 years ago [1], they were at $0.024 per gb four years ago. So they certainly havent halved, but the prices are definitely still dropping. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
- avtar 6y agoWhich drive did you pick?
- SECProto 6y agoWas a good sale on WD Easystore external drive from Bestbuy. Back up to MSRP now.
- avtar 6y agoThanks! I'll keep an eye out.
- sliken 6y agoCareful, or you might end up with a shingled drive with radically worse write performance than you might expect.
- SECProto 6y agoNote that shingled drives are totally fine for many use cases. I bought this 14TB drive to act as a secondary backup for non-critical data, I expect it'll be a write-once-read-rarely kind of situation. Even if it is SMR, it'll be fine for me. Don't use large SMR drives as OS or software drives, or drives that do a lot of changes when you're above 50% fill capacity on the drive