themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoHard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victimwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1562arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1553arrow-down1external-linkHard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victimwww.tomshardware.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square109linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·21 hours agoDamn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead. Or buy cloud storage.
minus-squareSurp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·20 hours agoDon’t buy cloud storage that’s what they want you to do
minus-squareRamRabbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoIf two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I’m assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.
minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoI’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.
Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.
Or buy cloud storage.
Don’t buy cloud storage that’s what they want you to do
this is the answer.
If two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I’m assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.
I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.