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The drives I looked at were cheaper when I checked a few months ago? Have prices gone up again?
by Melatonic 4y ago
The drives I looked at were cheaper when I checked a few months ago? Have prices gone up again?
- at_a_remove 4y agoThis is my pain point. For those of us who are aware the cloud exists and would rather do tape anyway, why on earth is a recent vintage tape drive so expensive?
- Melatonic 4y agoI was talking spinning disks - tape is too niche now
- rektide 4y agoIt's been a year since prices recovered from the earlier madness & got back to where they were. It's not totally stable, but prices as I see them have been going slowly down since. I personally have some Exos 16TB's. There's a decent price history available[1] reaching back to mid-2019. Make sure to tick on "3rd party new". These aren't going to be the best prices available in many cases, but it's reasonably indicative. [1] https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07SPFPKF4 https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07SPFPKF4
- Melatonic 4y agoI always buy enterprise drives - much higher reliability and lifetime and usually I have found they benchmark higher. They are also way heavier and almost always use better bearings on all surfaces. Some people complain they are super loud but the three types I have randomly purchased over the years have been just as quiet as any other spinning disk (as in I do not notice the sound at all once its inside my desktop)