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I'm thinking of moving my homelab over to SSDs sometime, maybe when my HDDs start gradually failing. I remember when I could get a 1 TB HDD for about 40 EUR, bu

I'm thinking of moving my homelab over to SSDs sometime, maybe when my HDDs start gradually failing. I remember when I could get a 1 TB HDD for about 40 EUR, but now they're up to like 55 - 70 EUR over here, whereas SSDs with the same capacity go for 60 - 65 EUR and the lack of moving parts and the performance increase are both hard to argue with. At higher capacities HDDs are still more affordable, but I wonder for how long, I still have enough SATA ports and PCIe SATA expansion cards.

Rinzler89 2y ago
But look how much a >4TB SSD is compared to a HDD.
- KronisLV 2y ago
  Out of curiosity: - 4TB SATA (2.5") SSD: Silicon Power Ace A55, 230 EUR - 4TB NVME (M.2) SSD: Crucial P3, 260 EUR - 4TB SATA HDD: Seagate Barracuda, 108 EUR so HDDs are still more affordable for larger storage, assuming that you're okay with the shortcomings. I think that the differences remain similar at the higher storage capacities too.
  - gruturo 2y ago
    Not really. According to diskprices.com, $99 buys you a 12TB hard disk (new, not used). Admittedly there's only 1 entry for that price, could be a dodgy vendor, but there's plenty of 8TB ones for <$100. Also there's a 16TB drive for $130. https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=7-&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=7-&...
    - KronisLV 2y ago
      Must be pretty cool to live in the US! The 12TB listing shows up to me as "Currently unavailable", whereas others show up as more expensive, so instead of 66 USD for a 4 TB HDD I instead get 172 EUR on amazon.co.uk (Seagate Enterprise ST4000NM0035). The prices in the post above were from an e-commerce store in my country, so those are also different from Amazon's in some ways.
    - justsomehnguy 2y ago
      > Admittedly there's only 1 entry for that price Ie that's totally not representing the current prices. Both official Seagate and WD sites still state ~$100 for the regular (not NAS/Gold/Exos/whatever) 8Tb drives. It's still x2 for SSD per Gb and it would be for some time, but you always trade the capacity for the performance.
    - ksec 2y ago
      It is not brand new but refurbished if you actually click on the amazon link. That goes the same with all MDD drive. If you only look at Seagate or WD, they are all $15/TB +.

Rinzler89 2y ago

But look how much a >4TB SSD is compared to a HDD.

KronisLV 2y ago
Out of curiosity: - 4TB SATA (2.5") SSD: Silicon Power Ace A55, 230 EUR - 4TB NVME (M.2) SSD: Crucial P3, 260 EUR - 4TB SATA HDD: Seagate Barracuda, 108 EUR so HDDs are still more affordable for larger storage, assuming that you're okay with the shortcomings. I think that the differences remain similar at the higher storage capacities too.
- gruturo 2y ago
  Not really. According to diskprices.com, $99 buys you a 12TB hard disk (new, not used). Admittedly there's only 1 entry for that price, could be a dodgy vendor, but there's plenty of 8TB ones for <$100. Also there's a 16TB drive for $130. https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=7-&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new&capacity=7-&...
  - KronisLV 2y ago
    Must be pretty cool to live in the US! The 12TB listing shows up to me as "Currently unavailable", whereas others show up as more expensive, so instead of 66 USD for a 4 TB HDD I instead get 172 EUR on amazon.co.uk (Seagate Enterprise ST4000NM0035). The prices in the post above were from an e-commerce store in my country, so those are also different from Amazon's in some ways.
  - justsomehnguy 2y ago
    > Admittedly there's only 1 entry for that price Ie that's totally not representing the current prices. Both official Seagate and WD sites still state ~$100 for the regular (not NAS/Gold/Exos/whatever) 8Tb drives. It's still x2 for SSD per Gb and it would be for some time, but you always trade the capacity for the performance.
  - ksec 2y ago
    It is not brand new but refurbished if you actually click on the amazon link. That goes the same with all MDD drive. If you only look at Seagate or WD, they are all $15/TB +.