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[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 25 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

More drives for my NAS - 16tb was about A$250 4 years ago. Same drives are now nearly A$1200.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

In 2024, I bought 5 14 terabyte hard drives for about $600 for my NAS.

Thank God I have gotten nowhere near close to filling those up yet.

Just one additional drive is like 350 bucks now.

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

I'm limping along with one surviving 10tb, it's twin mirror is dead. All non media data is backed up across smaller drives that still have pools/mirrors, but 5gb of media is living on the edge untill something changes.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Did something similar and have 20TB of solid state in a Beelink ME Mini.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 1 points 37 minutes ago

I'm contemplating actually deleting shit. Or, if not that, storing offsite (deep storage) and then deleting, ready for that mythical time when drives become more affordable.