this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
409 points (98.1% liked)

Selfhosted

60910 readers
1149 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Detailed Rules Post

  1. Be civil.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts are to be related to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.

  8. AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

considering they’re used server parts.

That really should be in the title...

I dunno, I'm one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.

So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. ~~But for like $20 more you don't have to worry about losing the data on it.~~

Edit:

Apparently prices just haven't changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do you get a 12 tb drive for $100?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's crazy.

I guess all those $100 deals were used too.

So I guess at least used prices went down?

But I remember years ago a shuckable 12tb for like $120-140 on sale wasnt unusual on buildapcsales.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

They're much cheaper than $20 off a new drive. I bought a 14TB WD server drive from them within the last year for less than it cost me to get an 8TB Elements/Easystore on sale back in 2018. It was easily 50% of the new price for a similar drive.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not to sound snarky or anything, but since when do prices go down? If people were willing to pay the inflated price, there's no incentive for them not to make that the new standard.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The entire existence of computers outside the last five years...

I agree to some extent, but even before then hardware was getting expensive thanks to stuff like the Bitcoin mining craze. Harddrives have been getting cheaper on a dollar per TB basis for a long time (as they should), but I remember the days when it was cheaper to build a gaming PC than to buy a new console, and those days are long gone. And after COVID hit, greedflation set in to declare what the new normal is.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A new 12 TB drive is literally 300€ now.

I don't think it was EVER 100€ for a 12TB, certainly not helium filled. Prices during covid went up, but not even near 3x for hard dives.