Thankfully for personal stuff there's at least the option of buying white label or recertified drives. Recently got some 1 TB ones from Datablocks as backups,

Thankfully for personal stuff there's at least the option of buying white label or recertified drives. Recently got some 1 TB ones from Datablocks as backups, did a short writeup on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo... (though a better post made its way on HN by someone else a while ago, too) To be honest, they mostly have 8 TB and up in stock at the moment, but the price was around 35 EUR for the 1 TB drive which is kind of insane when similar drives at local stores cost 110 EUR right now - I remember when those Seagate Barracuda drives were about 40-50 EUR brand new! For the US, there's also goHardDrive, though I haven't used them myself: https://www.goharddrive.com/category-s/69.htm https://www.goharddrive.com/category-s/69.htm I still use SSDs for boot drives, video games and also fragmented data (like Garage for something S3 compatible, which chunks the files), but for backups and longer term storage HDDs are great.