• anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    It took a lot in me not to brag about my luck with buying used HHDs for home use.

    Not to be ‘that guy’, but with how things are trending I feel like now is the time to make your homelab if you want one and haven’t taken the dive already.

    Seems like there’s a growing chorus of tech CEOs affirming plans to transition consumers to cloud-based personal computing - component prices probably wont be bouncing back anytime soon.

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      2 months ago

      Least year I paid $485 cdn for 22 tb wd red pro drives. Right now the same drives are $749 cdn.

      It’s already too late

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Yea, I mean it’s definitely already pretty bad, but I just don’t think it’s coming back down - at least not soon.

        If you can afford it still, I wouldn’t wait.

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      2 months ago

      I went to buy used drives for an offsite backup and the prices were double what I paid a year ago, so no, now is not the time, unfortunately.

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        Yup, they are definitely already inflated, but I wouldn’t wait for them to come back down - i’m not sure they will.