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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (www.tomshardware.com)
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https://serverpartdeals.com/products/seagate-exos-st28000nm000c-28tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-cmr-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

28 TB $449.99 Price per TB: $16.07

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[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

O, that is a real cool feature. So you just lose space then as they fail, not redundancy.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It sure is!

In my case it's vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.