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I just picked up 40tb for exactly this reason. I was already considering an upgrade, but was planning like 16 tb. But with this news… Might as well get it while I can at prices I was expecting to pay anyway, even if it’s more than I really had budgeted for it..
(I got refurbished drives, with 3 yr warranty, so this wasn’t like several grand with no protection or anything, came to $570 on Newegg)
holy shit i thought i was going super prepared with a 24tb
Heh, yeah, I’m assuming hard drives are going to do the same thing graphics cards did.. get wildly expensive and never come back down, even if they could. With that in mind, this sounds like a good option.
Also I currently have no backups, and this much extra space fixes that handily. So it was sort of needed and something I was considering anyway.
I’m trying really really hard to convince myself I made the right choice here. 😅
i mean no one sees any of this getting any better any time soon. overkill? possibly. but it's one thing to not have to worry about for a while
edit: if it makes you feel any better, i usually build a new computer every 5-7 years, but this time i upgraded early, last january, 2025 expecting tariffs to make supply shitty-- i had no idea AI would be screwing up everything the way it has. definitely glad i made that decision, even though i went way over budget--i should be set PC-wise for quite a while
I rebuilt my pc just a few weeks before the ram explosion (replaced cpu, mobo, ram, and cooling), only thing it doesn’t have upgraded is graphics card, but the one it has is …… eh.. ok for now until I can afford to pick something else up. Also definitely glad to have made that decision. And probably will be with my storage choice too, once it’s hindsight. I just hate spending money.
So yeah, thanks, that helps. :)