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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.
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
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.
I purchased two 12 TB HDDs last year when they were on sale and wow am I glad I did so. I joked how they'd last us the rest of our lives and now that might have to be true.
Took same action. Can't have an up-to-spec homelab unfortunately, but got a good storage upgrade.
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.
Yup, they are definitely already inflated, but I wouldn't wait for them to come back down - i'm not sure they will.