Expensive drives have become such a pain. Maybe five years from now, if supply meets demand, I just wish I can afford a 1PB all-flash NAS. I really don't want to hear noise and I wish data centres would release their used supply on market. I will put backup on HDDs.

Soldered RAM and novel format hardware is a pain point. Macbook storage upgrade needs special custom hardware. Synology still doesn't allow third party HDDs in their extension units. NAS devices are truly a fantastic category on its own. My data remains local, while also allowing me to use it as a server for my workloads.

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bingo-bongo 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I wish data centres would release their used supply on market.

They do: https://serverpartdeals.com/

Haven’t used them myself, but afair Wendel (Level1Techs) mentioned them at some point.

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iamshs 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Server Part Deals is really good since they test the drives themselves. But even the used drives are on the verge of being unaffordable now. They increased the price of their 28TB re-certified drive last month by $120.

	▲	jimz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, you can take a walk on the wild side and for whatever reason this aggregator has a particularly robust set of sorting categories when it comes to hard drives. https://www.saleturbo.com/techdeals/ Caveat emptor, of course.