Have you looked at storage prices recently?

Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seriously I can’t even get my refurb enterprise drives for reasonable prices anymore. Used to pay like $150 for 14TB ultrastars now it’s like $300 for 12TB exos

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bityard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Last night I found a 3TB external USB 3.0 drive at the bottom of my "computer junk" drawer that I had completely forgotten I owned. It felt like winning the lottery.

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coldpie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's ok to delete things.

	▲	amlib 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Please tell that to OpenAI & friends.

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Vaushite 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is $25 per TB

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tamimio 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes I am aware, it is why you don’t buy new, there are thousands of used computers out there that I made a side hustle out of buying them and reselling them after some cleaning and fixing, so many I found that’s beyond to list here, but for example I got asus zenbook 14 for $12 because it didn’t boot (which was just a loose connection inside), a macmini m1 for $50, and many other parts and finds. I even have a thinkpad with proxmox and run as a server, uptime now is more than a year.

	▲	ron_woods an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm curious where are you going to find these used machines (EBay, govt auction, Facebook Marketplace, etc...)? I have been wanting to setup a home NAS and home server but am not paying these prices.