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I just upgraded my pc and added a RAID array. A 4 tb drive is still like $80-150, so $600 for 30tb seems kinda reasonable. It's outside of my budget, but I'm a cheap bastard.
This is CAD, but it’s double the price of 20tb
That's a pretty good price, too. If you look closely, it's discounted from MSRP. The MSRP is roughly in line with the price per tb.
That makes the discs you bought on the high end too though.
I could have gotten a marginally better price per tb with bigger drives, but I didn't need that much storage. The drive you linked is $419 at my local Microcenter.
Yeah RAID or NAS drives have something specific and are a little more per TB if I’m not mistaken.
Crazy that we also used to pay this price per GB and even MB at some point.