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Let's look at the sweet spots, because that's really what many people will buy: Best $/GB HDD on pricewatch.com: $0.024/GB for 2TB at $48.95 Best $/GB SSD

Let's look at the sweet spots, because that's really what many people will buy: Best $/GB HDD on pricewatch.com: $0.024/GB for 2TB at $48.95 Best $/GB SSD on pricewatch.com: $0.387/GB for 240GB at $92.95 That's a 16x price increase, not 10x.

samstave 11y ago
Yeah, 240SSD for <$100 is great! while I cant stand the case and build quality of my System 76 machine - the guts are the best bang for the buck. The fact that it can take two internal drives (both SSD) is awesome - so having dual 240GB drives allows for plenty of space. I have a 1TB external that I glacerize my other stuff to. Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics.
- ChristianBundy 11y ago
  > Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics. Just make sure you understand the privacy repercussions of hosting your data on Flickr.
  - sosuke 11y ago
    Are there any things to know about settings images to 'private' on Flickr?
    - sneak 11y ago
      Photos have lat/lon/timestamp in EXIF. You're uploading a track log to them.
      - otterpro 11y ago
        Even though location is embedded in EXIF, you can disable geolocation feature in Flickr's privacy setting, so that it won't be in the photo that is displayed on flickr. But yes, it does keep EXIF info in its database. For those who are paranoid, either run exiftool or imagemagick to strip off all EXIF before uploading.
  - ams6110 11y ago
    Just realize that to transfer 1TB of data at typical ISP speeds will take many days.
    - deevus 11y ago
      Not sure why you're being downvoted. In Australia this is so important to consider.
- sneak 11y ago
  If Flickr (or their publicly traded overlords Yahoo) decide arbitrarily for whatever reason one day you violated their TOS with an errant nipple or whatever, kiss a decade of professional archives goodbye. No thanks. My photos live in four places, and two of them are owned by me.
  - __z 11y ago
    No problem with nipples - Flickr allows full nudity as long as you mark them correctly for search purposes. Nobody said you should keep the only copy of everything you have on Flickr. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln11025.html?impressions=true https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln110... Safe - Content suitable for a global, public audience. Moderate - If you're not sure whether your content is suitable for a global, public audience, but you don't think that it needs to be restricted. Restricted - This is content you probably wouldn't show to your mother, and definitely shouldn't be seen by kids. Guide - Bare breasts and bottoms are "moderate," but full frontal nudity is "restricted."
- zanny 11y ago
  You can also try throwing them in an imgur album. Not sure if there is a data limit per account, but I don't think there is. I have several dozen GB of photo on there already.
  - otterpro 11y ago
    Problem with imgur is that it compresses the image too much, and the degradation is noticeable. I don't recommend imgur for archival purpose.
    - samstave 11y ago
      I've had a paid imgur account since the day they announced them. In addition to the compression, mass upload and album mgmt is very clunky at best. I stopped attempting to archive many images there years ago... I should give it a test again though to see if it is better.
    - zanny 11y ago
      Theres a setting somewhere not to compress large images when you upload them. Is it still compressing?
slg 11y ago
I wonder if those sell simply because of their positions in the market. Is the average consumer knowledgeable to know whether they need 240 GB, 2 TB, or 6 TB? Or do they simply compare prices and sizes and choose whatever they think is the best value? A 2 TB drive might just be another example of the 2nd cheapest wine trick?
- brianpan 11y ago
  There are 3 reasons people need to buy a new computer- too slow, ran out of HD space, or too slow and ran out of HD space. It was true 10 years ago and even more true now. Backup your 32GB phone a few times and you're wondering where all the space went. It's more like insurance. You buy as much as you can afford. That's why it's painful to by a new MacBook Pro these days. 1TB is very expensive compared to the 1TB I could afford 5 years ago.
  - Stratoscope 11y ago
    > It's more like insurance. You buy as much as you can afford. Somewhat OT, but I have to say something about that. With insurance you are almost always better off buying as little as you can afford. The more risk you can afford to take on yourself, the better a deal you get on your insurance. This is why a company like Hertz doesn't buy insurance at all for their fleet: they can spread the risk across all their cars, so they self-insure. In fact, there are some cases where the "better" insurance is always a worse deal. I've seen this in several employer medical insurance plans where there are two or three different levels of PPO plans with varying deductibles and premiums. The last couple of Blue Shield plans I looked at were like this. There would be two PPOs with the same doctor network and such, so you could simply compare on the numbers. The more expensive plan offered lower copays and deductibles, but unless you have a large number of prescriptions and doctor visits, you'd never make up the difference - with the more expensive plan you'd be paying more every month regardless. And in any case, the number you really care about on medical insurance - which seemingly few people pay attention to - is the annual out of pocket max. That's your worst case scenario cost-wise. If you hit the out of pocket max, everything is covered after that. In the plans I looked at, both the cheapest and most expensive plans had the same out of pocket max. So in almost every case, people who sign up for the more expensive plan are simply spending more money for the same coverage.
yohui 11y ago
That's not the best Price/GB ratio for an SSD. And unlike the SSD, the HDD on Pricewatch is a generic white label drive. For example, this 240GB OCZ ARC 100 is $70 ($0.292/GB) after promo code and mail-in rebate: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228116 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682022... Or not counting mail-in rebates, this 480GB PNY CS111 is $152 ($0.317/GB): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00TIJMEV2/ https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00TIJMEV2/ Found via PCPartPicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/

samstave 11y ago

Yeah, 240SSD for <$100 is great! while I cant stand the case and build quality of my System 76 machine - the guts are the best bang for the buck. The fact that it can take two internal drives (both SSD) is awesome - so having dual 240GB drives allows for plenty of space. I have a 1TB external that I glacerize my other stuff to. Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics.

ChristianBundy 11y ago
> Also, get a Flickr account which can host your 1TB of pics for free (money for nothin')... and you wont consume space on your local box with pics. Just make sure you understand the privacy repercussions of hosting your data on Flickr.
- sosuke 11y ago
  Are there any things to know about settings images to 'private' on Flickr?
  - sneak 11y ago
    Photos have lat/lon/timestamp in EXIF. You're uploading a track log to them.
    - otterpro 11y ago
      Even though location is embedded in EXIF, you can disable geolocation feature in Flickr's privacy setting, so that it won't be in the photo that is displayed on flickr. But yes, it does keep EXIF info in its database. For those who are paranoid, either run exiftool or imagemagick to strip off all EXIF before uploading.
- ams6110 11y ago
  Just realize that to transfer 1TB of data at typical ISP speeds will take many days.
  - deevus 11y ago
    Not sure why you're being downvoted. In Australia this is so important to consider.
sneak 11y ago
If Flickr (or their publicly traded overlords Yahoo) decide arbitrarily for whatever reason one day you violated their TOS with an errant nipple or whatever, kiss a decade of professional archives goodbye. No thanks. My photos live in four places, and two of them are owned by me.
- __z 11y ago
  No problem with nipples - Flickr allows full nudity as long as you mark them correctly for search purposes. Nobody said you should keep the only copy of everything you have on Flickr. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln11025.html?impressions=true https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln110... Safe - Content suitable for a global, public audience. Moderate - If you're not sure whether your content is suitable for a global, public audience, but you don't think that it needs to be restricted. Restricted - This is content you probably wouldn't show to your mother, and definitely shouldn't be seen by kids. Guide - Bare breasts and bottoms are "moderate," but full frontal nudity is "restricted."
zanny 11y ago
You can also try throwing them in an imgur album. Not sure if there is a data limit per account, but I don't think there is. I have several dozen GB of photo on there already.
- otterpro 11y ago
  Problem with imgur is that it compresses the image too much, and the degradation is noticeable. I don't recommend imgur for archival purpose.
  - samstave 11y ago
    I've had a paid imgur account since the day they announced them. In addition to the compression, mass upload and album mgmt is very clunky at best. I stopped attempting to archive many images there years ago... I should give it a test again though to see if it is better.
  - zanny 11y ago
    Theres a setting somewhere not to compress large images when you upload them. Is it still compressing?

slg 11y ago

I wonder if those sell simply because of their positions in the market. Is the average consumer knowledgeable to know whether they need 240 GB, 2 TB, or 6 TB? Or do they simply compare prices and sizes and choose whatever they think is the best value? A 2 TB drive might just be another example of the 2nd cheapest wine trick?

brianpan 11y ago
There are 3 reasons people need to buy a new computer- too slow, ran out of HD space, or too slow and ran out of HD space. It was true 10 years ago and even more true now. Backup your 32GB phone a few times and you're wondering where all the space went. It's more like insurance. You buy as much as you can afford. That's why it's painful to by a new MacBook Pro these days. 1TB is very expensive compared to the 1TB I could afford 5 years ago.
- Stratoscope 11y ago
  > It's more like insurance. You buy as much as you can afford. Somewhat OT, but I have to say something about that. With insurance you are almost always better off buying as little as you can afford. The more risk you can afford to take on yourself, the better a deal you get on your insurance. This is why a company like Hertz doesn't buy insurance at all for their fleet: they can spread the risk across all their cars, so they self-insure. In fact, there are some cases where the "better" insurance is always a worse deal. I've seen this in several employer medical insurance plans where there are two or three different levels of PPO plans with varying deductibles and premiums. The last couple of Blue Shield plans I looked at were like this. There would be two PPOs with the same doctor network and such, so you could simply compare on the numbers. The more expensive plan offered lower copays and deductibles, but unless you have a large number of prescriptions and doctor visits, you'd never make up the difference - with the more expensive plan you'd be paying more every month regardless. And in any case, the number you really care about on medical insurance - which seemingly few people pay attention to - is the annual out of pocket max. That's your worst case scenario cost-wise. If you hit the out of pocket max, everything is covered after that. In the plans I looked at, both the cheapest and most expensive plans had the same out of pocket max. So in almost every case, people who sign up for the more expensive plan are simply spending more money for the same coverage.

yohui 11y ago

That's not the best Price/GB ratio for an SSD. And unlike the SSD, the HDD on Pricewatch is a generic white label drive. For example, this 240GB OCZ ARC 100 is $70 ($0.292/GB) after promo code and mail-in rebate: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228116 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682022... Or not counting mail-in rebates, this 480GB PNY CS111 is $152 ($0.317/GB): https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00TIJMEV2/ https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00TIJMEV2/ Found via PCPartPicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/ https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/