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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time
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this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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pretty close, though. $99.99 for new 8tb seagate hdd is the lowest/gb i've seen in the last couple years from a major retailer.
Yeah, it's not true yet but it's not another five years away either.
I just checked and 18tb can be had for $170, so we're there already.
Nice. Where?
Haven't heard of the brand (MDD), but here's the Amazon listing. It claims to have a 5-year warranty, so there's that, but people on Reddit claim they're basically refurbished HDDs w/ wiped SMART data, so YMMV.
I wouldn't gamble on it and would instead get a brand I trust (either WD or Seagate), but it exists.
Cool. My older RAID controller maxes out at 16TB per drive so that wouldn't work for me either way but I did gamble on some rebranded SAS drives from Amazon once and haven't regretted it. Water Panther was the name, recertified WD Enterprise drives I believe. That was over five years ago and they're all still running strong. The shucked Seagates that I bought brand new all self destructed in a matter of months but, to be fair, they were garbage SMR drives that were never meant to leave the safety of their USB enclosures. They do still work but the write throughput is now somewhere between DSL and dialup...
Any reason you're using a RAID controller instead of software RAID? Depending on the RAID level, you could be screwed if the controller dies.
Basically because it's a redundant server I don't really care about that only rarely gets fired up these days, and I have a second, identical controller for exactly the scenario you're imagining.
But really because I'm lazy and depressed and don't have the energy to take on learning something new (to me) like Unraid at this point. The same server does actually run software RAID for all the VMs' solid state boot volumes, just not for the mechanical drives that store content which is all replaceable anyway as it's freely available on Usenet.
Also, this is a personal system. I take much better care of my customers because I am deeply grateful for my 10 hour-per-week "full time" salaried job that I'm incredibly lucky to have in the first place and am currently doing from bed with my dogs right next to me. Well, I will be anyway after I hit submit.
Eventually.
Awesome, I hope you can find a resolution to your depression, but glad to hear you're in a good spot for now.
That's kind of you to say. Thank you.
I just checked and found an 18tb HDD for $170, so we're there already. I personally would spring for the $210 "enterprise NAS" drive though.