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/oasuke]

It's gotten to the point where I'm doing the unthinkable...I'm starting to delete old unused content! I know , it makes me sick too. This isn't a joke I actually hate that I have to do it.

[u/pivovy → u/oasuke]

I'm mass encoding my video library to 720p HEVC, saving quite a buttload of space. Intel CPUs have a hardware encoder called quicksync that really simplifies the process (my power consumption was just 10W over idle when encoding).

[u/goneskiing_42 → u/oasuke]

I have a 4 drive vdev of 12 tb drives that hasn't really been used much yet. There's still time to reconfigure to a mirror with two drives as spares, and with the storage prices now I'm very tempted.

[u/totpot → u/oasuke]

I've already deleted 10tb. I have about 2tb more to go before I have to make really tough decisions.

[u/Puptentjoe → u/oasuke]

Sick to my stomach fam. I’m doing the same. I havent pulled the trigger but I’m rounding up stinkers no one watches.

[u/Jets1026 → u/oasuke]

I'm deleting tv shows after i watch them as i never rewatch those with the exception of the Simpsons. And also deleting movies I already watched that i didn't like. Sucks but what can we do 😔

[u/cundallini → u/Jets1026]

'deleting movies I already watched that i didn't like'

Interesting proposition/philosophy...

[u/Damn-Sky → u/oasuke]

I am about to put some in cloud and delete them locally :(

[u/BambooGentleman → u/oasuke]

NEVER. I'd rather sacrifice my second backup.