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Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I'm looking at second hand drives, but even those go for โ‚ฌ100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? ๐Ÿ˜

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[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

I used to have a DVD duplicator. Picked it up at an auction many, many years back then turned it for twice what I had in it. Something similar to this: