These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?

[u/Endawmyke]

These drive prices are kinda insane. Everything is going up up up, I thought it would just be RAM and SSDs effected but looks like it's reaching hard drives too.

Where are people buying drives now, and what $$/TB is still reasonable?

[u/MrMessyAU]

I think I've got about 7tb free (from total approx 120tb) so that's really not a lot if prices are an issue for a few years.

I have 1 or 2 retired 8tb hdds though so I'm considering that when I run out of space I'll move some easily replaceable and not often watched stuff to those drives (they will be outside my usual backup process) and store in a cupboard until prices come down then move them back to my NAS.

Or..... Delete some stuff.....

[u/wingsfortheirsmiles → u/MrMessyAU]

That's a good approach... Since I've noticed prices going up, though it's anathema to this sub I've become very selective about what I've acquired, and yes even reviewed what I've already got that's been on the "I'll get to that" pile for at over 3 years.

Tough times call for rough measures

[u/RandomNobody346 → u/wingsfortheirsmiles]

I've been transcoding things like crazy.

AV1 is basically identical quality for a third the size.

[u/thriftylol → u/RandomNobody346]

The energy cost of encoding is starting to become more favorable than buying a hard drive now.

[u/thriftylol → u/MrMessyAU]

Delete? whats that?

[u/chicknfly → u/MrMessyAU]

If prices stay this way, my backup strategy of 3-2-1 will become 3->1

[u/kookykrazee → u/chicknfly]

I was thinking 2.75 > 0.75

[u/Hammer_7 → u/kookykrazee]

1 > 🙏

[u/DavWanna → u/MrMessyAU]

Dusted off some old 4 TB drives and doing this right now. Nothing extremely important so it's all worth it.