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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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Personally I just track sales constantly. I know I don't want less than my smallest, so I look for 14TB and up. If I come.across an upgrade for the right price, I buy it even if I don't need it right now. The drive I replace moves to another array, so its not wasted. Hell I'm still using some 2-3TB drives in the (much larger in qty) backup array.

The only thing I'd point out with the DC is they may not even have the hardware in there - there's a stupid amount of money that is being counted against product not even installed (or even shipped yet) in the stock value game these narcissistic scumbags are playing.