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Thought I had a failing 14TB, looks like (finger's crossed) it was the SATA connection.
I'm just hoping to ride out another year when we might start seeing them come back down.
I already have a new $1000 server sitting around that is unusable since I can't/won't pay these outrageous prices to put a new storage drive into.
Yea I built a 182TB Unraid server and bought a 24TB at the $249 price... well money was tight and I thought I had more space turns out I needed another but prices were rising a bit. Long story loner a year goes by I have no parity due to prices and now have a failing drive. sheesh this is going to hurt.
Yeah seemed like just yesterday crazy. And thing it nobody was even buying them at that price due to Seagate known reliability issues. I ended up getting a smaller WD drive instead. No problems with WD so far and hopefully it stays that way cuz won't be able to afford replacement anytime soon!
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Thought I had a failing 14TB, looks like (finger's crossed) it was the SATA connection.
I'm just hoping to ride out another year when we might start seeing them come back down.
I already have a new $1000 server sitting around that is unusable since I can't/won't pay these outrageous prices to put a new storage drive into.
Sad times.
What brand? Seagate? Wonder how many would still be working today tho if you bought 4 of them back then since Seagate ain't all that reliable in my experience. Ended going with WD instead because of all the bad reviews and high returns on the 24TB even when they were on sale for $250.
We all wish we bought 4 of them.Thought I had a failing 14TB, looks like (finger's crossed) it was the SATA connection.I'm just hoping to ride out another year when we might start seeing them come back down.I already have a new $1000 server sitting around that is unusable since I can't/won't pay these outrageous prices to put a new storage drive into.Sad times.
You're probably going to hate me then because it was Black Friday I believe 2025 (or 2024) when I bought two 20 TB Western digital externals around 250 each and then it was like a week or two later that Western digital.com put them on sale for the same price might have been $255 or so is very close and I decided to pick up two more.
What's funny is I felt silly at the time I felt like oh my God why are you buying for 20 TB drives but with an unraid server two of them are the parity disks....
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Thought I had a failing 14TB, looks like (finger's crossed) it was the SATA connection.
I'm just hoping to ride out another year when we might start seeing them come back down.
I already have a new $1000 server sitting around that is unusable since I can't/won't pay these outrageous prices to put a new storage drive into.
Sad times.
Trying to go through the extra year offered by my credit card, though if they approve would be "up to" the price I had paid.
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We all wish we bought 4 of them.
Thought I had a failing 14TB, looks like (finger's crossed) it was the SATA connection.
I'm just hoping to ride out another year when we might start seeing them come back down.
I already have a new $1000 server sitting around that is unusable since I can't/won't pay these outrageous prices to put a new storage drive into.
Sad times.
What's funny is I felt silly at the time I felt like oh my God why are you buying for 20 TB drives but with an unraid server two of them are the parity disks....
But I've never regretted it since
Remember when go hard drive had $75 12tb SATA Helium filled Hard Drives on fleabay with 5yr warrenty? I bought 4, wish I bought 10..
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